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About a month ago I bought eight rummy nose from a pet store, along with corys and snails. The store was clean and the fish looked healthy. The store just got the rummy nose the morning I bought them. The corys are fine and happy weeks later, but not the tetras.
When I brought them home and accumulated them to the tank, I noticed one tetra had a white tail and couldn't swim well. I thought maybe it was hurt in shipping, and when it died a few hours later it didn't bother me that much. The next day, another tetra no longer could swim right. It's tail would float up, taking the tetra with it. The tail and back soon turned white, and death followed a hour later. For the next five days the same thing happened to the other tetras, and they died. They also had ich, which I was treating for with ich x. It didn't save them.
None of my other fish, (German rams, corys, a betta, pleco) showed any signs of illness and were active. So I ordered rummy nose from liveaquaria along with a few other fish. The new rummy nose looked considerable better than the ones from the pet store. From the first day they were active and eating. So were the honey gourami I ordered.
Its been three weeks now, and the tetras are growing and active. They have ich now, which I assumed came from the other tetras even though I have been treating for that for almost 10 days and they still have it.
But today, I noticed one of the tetras starting to show symptoms like the first batch. The tail is turning white, and its back floats upward. The school of nine were not that interested in eating this morning, and have been hanging out in a thick bunch of plants in the tank, instead of constantly swimming and exploring like they normally do. I know that tetra will be dead in a few hours, and I am afraid the others will follow.
When I put the first batch of tetras in the 29 gallon tank, ammonia was at 0, nitrite 0, and nitrates 5. The tank had been cycled for a month with 3 german rams and a betta living in it before I even considered getting other fish.
The water isn't perfect right now though, because I treated with e.m erythromycin when I had the first tetras hoping it might save them. All it did was kill off my good bacteria. (when I ordered more fish from liveaquaria, my tank had not been showing readings of cycling again, and by the time it did, it was too late and the fish were out for delivery) And right after, my water turned cloudy because my filter was not working well. (grinding nose, slow flow, and it started to smell really bad despite many cleanings in a bucket of tank water) The filter stopped working, and I had to buy a new filter, which set back the tank even more. Now I have a fluvial canister filter, and the water is crystal clear. I kept a sponge from the old filter in the tank in case there was any good bacteria left.
Ammonia stays around .25-.50 since the tank is cycling again, and I am doing 30% water changes every day. Nitrite is at 0, and Nitrates at 5. All the fish seem fine. They are active and eating, and their colors are bright. And the tank is heavily planted, and I even have pothos growing out of the tank. The plants are growing so fast I have to trim them.
I don't know what to do for the tetras. General cure and erythromycin didn't help the last ones. And their ich doesn't seem that bad. A few have maybe half a dozen spots on them. The temp is at 81F to speed up the parasite's life cycle, and I use ich x every 12 hours.
Right now all I can do it take out the ones showing signs and put them in a small quarantine tank.
Other people seem to have this issue with rummy nose also, but don't know what it really is.
Help! Rummy Nose Tetras Dying with no explination
When I brought them home and accumulated them to the tank, I noticed one tetra had a white tail and couldn't swim well. I thought maybe it was hurt in shipping, and when it died a few hours later it didn't bother me that much. The next day, another tetra no longer could swim right. It's tail would float up, taking the tetra with it. The tail and back soon turned white, and death followed a hour later. For the next five days the same thing happened to the other tetras, and they died. They also had ich, which I was treating for with ich x. It didn't save them.
None of my other fish, (German rams, corys, a betta, pleco) showed any signs of illness and were active. So I ordered rummy nose from liveaquaria along with a few other fish. The new rummy nose looked considerable better than the ones from the pet store. From the first day they were active and eating. So were the honey gourami I ordered.
Its been three weeks now, and the tetras are growing and active. They have ich now, which I assumed came from the other tetras even though I have been treating for that for almost 10 days and they still have it.
But today, I noticed one of the tetras starting to show symptoms like the first batch. The tail is turning white, and its back floats upward. The school of nine were not that interested in eating this morning, and have been hanging out in a thick bunch of plants in the tank, instead of constantly swimming and exploring like they normally do. I know that tetra will be dead in a few hours, and I am afraid the others will follow.
When I put the first batch of tetras in the 29 gallon tank, ammonia was at 0, nitrite 0, and nitrates 5. The tank had been cycled for a month with 3 german rams and a betta living in it before I even considered getting other fish.
The water isn't perfect right now though, because I treated with e.m erythromycin when I had the first tetras hoping it might save them. All it did was kill off my good bacteria. (when I ordered more fish from liveaquaria, my tank had not been showing readings of cycling again, and by the time it did, it was too late and the fish were out for delivery) And right after, my water turned cloudy because my filter was not working well. (grinding nose, slow flow, and it started to smell really bad despite many cleanings in a bucket of tank water) The filter stopped working, and I had to buy a new filter, which set back the tank even more. Now I have a fluvial canister filter, and the water is crystal clear. I kept a sponge from the old filter in the tank in case there was any good bacteria left.
Ammonia stays around .25-.50 since the tank is cycling again, and I am doing 30% water changes every day. Nitrite is at 0, and Nitrates at 5. All the fish seem fine. They are active and eating, and their colors are bright. And the tank is heavily planted, and I even have pothos growing out of the tank. The plants are growing so fast I have to trim them.
I don't know what to do for the tetras. General cure and erythromycin didn't help the last ones. And their ich doesn't seem that bad. A few have maybe half a dozen spots on them. The temp is at 81F to speed up the parasite's life cycle, and I use ich x every 12 hours.
Right now all I can do it take out the ones showing signs and put them in a small quarantine tank.
Other people seem to have this issue with rummy nose also, but don't know what it really is.
Help! Rummy Nose Tetras Dying with no explination