StaceyMae
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Emergency Template:
Tank
1. What is the water volume of the tank?
75.708 liters (20 gallon long)
2. How long has the tank been running?
Since January 25th (5-6 months)
3. Does it have a filter?
Yes. Fluval C3 (with baffle), rotate purigen & charcoal every 2 weeks. Right now purigen is in the filter. I also have a bubble stone plugged in.
4. Does it have a heater?
Yes.
5. What is the water temperature?
25°C/77°F
6. What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and inverts.)
20-25 Red Cherry Shrimp (cant give exact number, I started out with 15 but had 2 adults die and had some babies already)
1 phoenix rasbora (started out with 10; all but 1 died during the 1st week)
5 gold ring danios (started with 7)
1 Assassin snail
Unknown amount of Japanese trapdoor snails (at least 20; it is my tank's pest snail)
A variety of live freshwater plants and some driftwood.
Maintenance
7. How often do you change the water?
2 times a week; Sunday & Wednesday evenings. I will do larger changes every 3 months though.
8. How much of the water do you change?
2-3.5 gallons every water change depending on gravel cleaning necessity (usually leaning more towards 2.5 gallons). I will change 50% every 3 months or so.
9. What do you use to treat your water?
Do you vacuum the substrate or just the water?
I vacuum both the substrate and the water. I use the following products every day/week depending on necessity:
Seachem Prime, Seachem Iron, Seachem Fresh Trace, Seachem Flourish Advanced, Tetra Easy Balance, and Seachem Excel.
*Parameters - Very Important
10. Did you cycle your tank before adding fish?
Yes. It was empty (besides plants & some pest snails) until I added the shrimp at the end of April.
11. What do you use to test the water?
API freshwater master test kit + the GH and KH mini test kit.
12. What are your parameters? We need to know the exact numbers, not just “fine” or “safe”.
As of 3:08 PM 6/10/2020:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0.5 ppm
pH: 6.6 (usually is 6.8; it dipped .2 ppm since the 7th)
Kh: between 2-3°
Gh: between 3-4°
I will also attach my parameters in an html file from the last month to yesterday via aquarium note app for android: content://com.easilydo.fileprovider/ext_attachments_folder/1591911064055_-638531718/parameters.html
Feeding
13. How often do you feed your fish?
Usually once per day (morning/afternoon) with pellets. Have reduced feeding biofilm supplements to once every other day as of yesterday. Use API tropical flakes and tetra bloodworms occasionally (about 2 times per week).
14. How much do you feed your fish?
1/2 of a measuring spoon of Bacter AE (doesnt give specific mg; for baby shrimps)
2-3 sinking shrimp pellets (adult shrimp food)
About a couple to a few micro pellets per fish, so maybe 10-15 or so a day, same goes for the occasional flakes&bloodworms. (For danios&rasbora)
15. What brand of food do you feed your fish?
Bacter AE (biofilm supplement for shrimp), Hikari micro pellets, Tetra Shrimp pellets, occasionally API tropical flakes & tetra bloodworms.
16. Do you feed frozen or freeze-dried foods?
I feed freeze-dried bloodworms occasionally, but that's about it. I would like to start using daphnia though.
Illness & Symptoms
17. How long have you had this fish?
I have had the RCS since April 29th and the assassin, gold rings & phoenix rasbora since May 12th. The japanese trapdoor snails found their way in there the first week I made the tank (piggy backed off some plants I think, but they werent a pest until I started feeding the tank more after adding fish).
18. How long ago did you first notice these symptoms?
Shortly after adding the fish, not inverts, but became apparent there could be an issue after adding my most recent addition of plants on the 18th of May.
19. In a few words, can you explain the symptoms?
Long story short, my last danio to die I noticed started to stay to himself in the middle without swimming much, but was not at the top or bottom. He looked sort of thin and may have had a damaged fin, it was hard to tell, before I found him deceased the next day. I have 1 now acting this way again out of no where. The last two that died occurred sometime during the first 2 weeks of having them.
My shrimp deaths were random with no symptoms and I havent had any die since the 1st danio passed, and my rasbora I think just had trouble acclimating. Now, however, I am finding worms coming out if my substrate, they are now climbing on the glass and even floating! I first noticed them about 6 days ago.
20. Have you started any treatment for the illness?
Nothing beside reducing feeding and upping water changes.
21. Was your fish physically ill or injured upon purchase?
Not that I know of. Fish were all alive and seemed well. They were acclimated via drip for 2.5 hours before being added to tank. Rasbora deaths occurred by next morning and 2 gold rings have slowly fallen from symptoms listed above.
22. How has its behavior and appearance changed, if at all?
The 1 gold ring danio showing symptoms is not at the top, nor bottom, of the tank. It stays directly in the middle and near the filter outlet. He does not leave that vicinity and slowly swims against the current. He is also sort of hunch-back looking now compared to before and thinner than usual. The rest look normal; even the shrimp. He does appear to partake during feeding times but I'm not sure if he actually eats or just participates in the activity going on around him.
23. Explain your emergency situation in detail. (Please give a clear explanation of what is going on, include details from the beginning of the illness leading up to now).
Okay. This is my specific problem. I got asian trapdoor snails and they breed like crazy even though I have NO adults. I heard that juveniles arent supposed to breed and they do not reach maturity until they are 18 weeks old or so, but mine are TINY and keep having tinier babies!
I have been scooping them out with every water change and will grab as many as I can find every time for weeks. Usually my nitrates stay at 0.5 ppm, but occasionally have been 0.10 over the last few weeks. The population wasnt a real problem until I got the fish so I think that could be why.
Now, with the bioload from everything in the tank (especially the snails), and plant matter from new plants, I noticed a new organism in my aquarium as well. I will attach photos and a video if I can.
I want to be sure these are not planaria. They look to me like rhabdocoela flatworms or detritus worms but I am not an expert. If it is planaria, however, it could very well be the reason behind the symptoms of my gold ring danios. So, my questions specifically are:
1. What could be wrong with my gold ring danio? Like, are these symptoms related to disease, age, or water quality, etc.?
2. Do you think these worms look like planaria, detritus, or rhabdo?
3. What should I do to ensure I keep my snails, and worms, populations under control?
4. What recommendations do you have for me regarding caring for my tank properly? I appreciate advice for feedings, medicines, water changes, etc.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP SO I CAN SAVE MY REMAINING 6 FISH
THANKS SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP PROVIDED.
EDIT: SO, I COULDNT GET HTML FILE TO LOAD SO HERE IS MY PARAMETERS FROM THE LAST MONTH:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<ParametersList>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/06/10 03:08 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.6</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Kh:2-3° Gh:3-4° Administered 2ml of prime and clarity, and 5ml of fresh trace. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/06/07 07:33 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.8</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>1ml prime and 2ml of fresh trace and clarity was administered. Also, tetra easy balance was administered last water change to stabilize low ph from detritius(mostly plant matter). Administer easy balance once a month to maintain ph hereafter. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/06/05 08:27 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.6</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.9</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Found dead shrimp this morning; also waited til friday to do water change instead of wednesday. Administered 2ml clarity, prime, tetra easy balance, and 4ml fresh trace. Changed carbon to purigen and changed fluval foam pad. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/31 11:57 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.8</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>1ml clarity administered </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/27 07:14 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.8</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.7</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Administered 2ml of fresh trace and 1ml of prime</Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/24 06:15 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>7.0</pH>
<Ammonia>.10</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.7</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Administered 2ml clarity and prime. Ammonia spike was likely due to overfeeding or the dead gold ring I found. Only 1 body was found. Be mindful of ammonia rest of week; cut back on food a little.</Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/20 09:46 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>7.0</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.7</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>GH: 2°-3° KH: 3°-4° 1ml of clarity, and 2ml of fresh trace was administered. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/12 12:55 PM</Date>
<Temperature>24</Temperature>
<pH>7.3</pH>
<Ammonia>0.15</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>2 ml of prime administered Found 1 dead cherry shrimp, which likely caused ammonia spike. Or overfeeding. Be mindful of ammonia.</Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/08 06:19 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>7.5</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes/>
</Parameters>
</ParametersList>
Tank
1. What is the water volume of the tank?
75.708 liters (20 gallon long)
2. How long has the tank been running?
Since January 25th (5-6 months)
3. Does it have a filter?
Yes. Fluval C3 (with baffle), rotate purigen & charcoal every 2 weeks. Right now purigen is in the filter. I also have a bubble stone plugged in.
4. Does it have a heater?
Yes.
5. What is the water temperature?
25°C/77°F
6. What is the entire stocking of this tank? (Please list all fish and inverts.)
20-25 Red Cherry Shrimp (cant give exact number, I started out with 15 but had 2 adults die and had some babies already)
1 phoenix rasbora (started out with 10; all but 1 died during the 1st week)
5 gold ring danios (started with 7)
1 Assassin snail
Unknown amount of Japanese trapdoor snails (at least 20; it is my tank's pest snail)
A variety of live freshwater plants and some driftwood.
Maintenance
7. How often do you change the water?
2 times a week; Sunday & Wednesday evenings. I will do larger changes every 3 months though.
8. How much of the water do you change?
2-3.5 gallons every water change depending on gravel cleaning necessity (usually leaning more towards 2.5 gallons). I will change 50% every 3 months or so.
9. What do you use to treat your water?
Do you vacuum the substrate or just the water?
I vacuum both the substrate and the water. I use the following products every day/week depending on necessity:
Seachem Prime, Seachem Iron, Seachem Fresh Trace, Seachem Flourish Advanced, Tetra Easy Balance, and Seachem Excel.
*Parameters - Very Important
10. Did you cycle your tank before adding fish?
Yes. It was empty (besides plants & some pest snails) until I added the shrimp at the end of April.
11. What do you use to test the water?
API freshwater master test kit + the GH and KH mini test kit.
12. What are your parameters? We need to know the exact numbers, not just “fine” or “safe”.
As of 3:08 PM 6/10/2020:
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0.5 ppm
pH: 6.6 (usually is 6.8; it dipped .2 ppm since the 7th)
Kh: between 2-3°
Gh: between 3-4°
I will also attach my parameters in an html file from the last month to yesterday via aquarium note app for android: content://com.easilydo.fileprovider/ext_attachments_folder/1591911064055_-638531718/parameters.html
Feeding
13. How often do you feed your fish?
Usually once per day (morning/afternoon) with pellets. Have reduced feeding biofilm supplements to once every other day as of yesterday. Use API tropical flakes and tetra bloodworms occasionally (about 2 times per week).
14. How much do you feed your fish?
1/2 of a measuring spoon of Bacter AE (doesnt give specific mg; for baby shrimps)
2-3 sinking shrimp pellets (adult shrimp food)
About a couple to a few micro pellets per fish, so maybe 10-15 or so a day, same goes for the occasional flakes&bloodworms. (For danios&rasbora)
15. What brand of food do you feed your fish?
Bacter AE (biofilm supplement for shrimp), Hikari micro pellets, Tetra Shrimp pellets, occasionally API tropical flakes & tetra bloodworms.
16. Do you feed frozen or freeze-dried foods?
I feed freeze-dried bloodworms occasionally, but that's about it. I would like to start using daphnia though.
Illness & Symptoms
17. How long have you had this fish?
I have had the RCS since April 29th and the assassin, gold rings & phoenix rasbora since May 12th. The japanese trapdoor snails found their way in there the first week I made the tank (piggy backed off some plants I think, but they werent a pest until I started feeding the tank more after adding fish).
18. How long ago did you first notice these symptoms?
Shortly after adding the fish, not inverts, but became apparent there could be an issue after adding my most recent addition of plants on the 18th of May.
19. In a few words, can you explain the symptoms?
Long story short, my last danio to die I noticed started to stay to himself in the middle without swimming much, but was not at the top or bottom. He looked sort of thin and may have had a damaged fin, it was hard to tell, before I found him deceased the next day. I have 1 now acting this way again out of no where. The last two that died occurred sometime during the first 2 weeks of having them.
My shrimp deaths were random with no symptoms and I havent had any die since the 1st danio passed, and my rasbora I think just had trouble acclimating. Now, however, I am finding worms coming out if my substrate, they are now climbing on the glass and even floating! I first noticed them about 6 days ago.
20. Have you started any treatment for the illness?
Nothing beside reducing feeding and upping water changes.
21. Was your fish physically ill or injured upon purchase?
Not that I know of. Fish were all alive and seemed well. They were acclimated via drip for 2.5 hours before being added to tank. Rasbora deaths occurred by next morning and 2 gold rings have slowly fallen from symptoms listed above.
22. How has its behavior and appearance changed, if at all?
The 1 gold ring danio showing symptoms is not at the top, nor bottom, of the tank. It stays directly in the middle and near the filter outlet. He does not leave that vicinity and slowly swims against the current. He is also sort of hunch-back looking now compared to before and thinner than usual. The rest look normal; even the shrimp. He does appear to partake during feeding times but I'm not sure if he actually eats or just participates in the activity going on around him.
23. Explain your emergency situation in detail. (Please give a clear explanation of what is going on, include details from the beginning of the illness leading up to now).
Okay. This is my specific problem. I got asian trapdoor snails and they breed like crazy even though I have NO adults. I heard that juveniles arent supposed to breed and they do not reach maturity until they are 18 weeks old or so, but mine are TINY and keep having tinier babies!
I have been scooping them out with every water change and will grab as many as I can find every time for weeks. Usually my nitrates stay at 0.5 ppm, but occasionally have been 0.10 over the last few weeks. The population wasnt a real problem until I got the fish so I think that could be why.
Now, with the bioload from everything in the tank (especially the snails), and plant matter from new plants, I noticed a new organism in my aquarium as well. I will attach photos and a video if I can.
I want to be sure these are not planaria. They look to me like rhabdocoela flatworms or detritus worms but I am not an expert. If it is planaria, however, it could very well be the reason behind the symptoms of my gold ring danios. So, my questions specifically are:
1. What could be wrong with my gold ring danio? Like, are these symptoms related to disease, age, or water quality, etc.?
2. Do you think these worms look like planaria, detritus, or rhabdo?
3. What should I do to ensure I keep my snails, and worms, populations under control?
4. What recommendations do you have for me regarding caring for my tank properly? I appreciate advice for feedings, medicines, water changes, etc.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP SO I CAN SAVE MY REMAINING 6 FISH
THANKS SO MUCH FOR ANY HELP PROVIDED.
EDIT: SO, I COULDNT GET HTML FILE TO LOAD SO HERE IS MY PARAMETERS FROM THE LAST MONTH:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<ParametersList>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/06/10 03:08 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.6</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Kh:2-3° Gh:3-4° Administered 2ml of prime and clarity, and 5ml of fresh trace. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/06/07 07:33 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.8</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>1ml prime and 2ml of fresh trace and clarity was administered. Also, tetra easy balance was administered last water change to stabilize low ph from detritius(mostly plant matter). Administer easy balance once a month to maintain ph hereafter. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/06/05 08:27 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.6</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.9</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Found dead shrimp this morning; also waited til friday to do water change instead of wednesday. Administered 2ml clarity, prime, tetra easy balance, and 4ml fresh trace. Changed carbon to purigen and changed fluval foam pad. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/31 11:57 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.8</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>1ml clarity administered </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/27 07:14 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>6.8</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.7</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Administered 2ml of fresh trace and 1ml of prime</Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/24 06:15 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>7.0</pH>
<Ammonia>.10</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.7</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>Administered 2ml clarity and prime. Ammonia spike was likely due to overfeeding or the dead gold ring I found. Only 1 body was found. Be mindful of ammonia rest of week; cut back on food a little.</Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/20 09:46 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>7.0</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.7</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>GH: 2°-3° KH: 3°-4° 1ml of clarity, and 2ml of fresh trace was administered. </Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/12 12:55 PM</Date>
<Temperature>24</Temperature>
<pH>7.3</pH>
<Ammonia>0.15</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes>2 ml of prime administered Found 1 dead cherry shrimp, which likely caused ammonia spike. Or overfeeding. Be mindful of ammonia.</Notes>
</Parameters>
<Parameters>
<Date>2020/05/08 06:19 PM</Date>
<Temperature>25</Temperature>
<pH>7.5</pH>
<Ammonia>0</Ammonia>
<Nitrite>0</Nitrite>
<Nitrate>0.5</Nitrate>
<Phosphate/>
<Salinity/>
<Alkalinity/>
<Calcium/>
<Magnesium/>
<TDS/>
<ORP/>
<Notes/>
</Parameters>
</ParametersList>
