mishykinz
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Weird gunky white stuff...is this ich?
My 55 gallon with 2 bloody parrots is in trouble. All of a sudden last night before I went to bed I noticed weird gunky white stringy/fuzzy stuff covering both of my parrots. It lined their gills and eyes and fins. There's also some on one of the logs in the tank.
Alarmed I did an immediate water change and added Maracyn because it's all I've got on hand. However one of my parrots ended up dying this morning. The other one is still coated in the stuff. I removed the log already. According to my test kits, water parameters are normal other than the ammonia being a bit up from the dead fish.
What is this? I've never seen ich before in real life. What does this sound like and what should I do? This pic I found on google is the closest I can find to what it looks like on my fish:
And if I wind up losing my other parrot...how can I get this stuff out of the tank so it's safe in the future?
Edit: Oh, and I don't know if this helps or anything, but the parrot was hovering near the heater all morning before it died.
My 55 gallon with 2 bloody parrots is in trouble. All of a sudden last night before I went to bed I noticed weird gunky white stringy/fuzzy stuff covering both of my parrots. It lined their gills and eyes and fins. There's also some on one of the logs in the tank.
Alarmed I did an immediate water change and added Maracyn because it's all I've got on hand. However one of my parrots ended up dying this morning. The other one is still coated in the stuff. I removed the log already. According to my test kits, water parameters are normal other than the ammonia being a bit up from the dead fish.
What is this? I've never seen ich before in real life. What does this sound like and what should I do? This pic I found on google is the closest I can find to what it looks like on my fish:
And if I wind up losing my other parrot...how can I get this stuff out of the tank so it's safe in the future?
Edit: Oh, and I don't know if this helps or anything, but the parrot was hovering near the heater all morning before it died.