A month ago i purchased a fish from my lfs that already had developed ich but was not totally visible. I put it in my tank and a few days later i noticed a single shiny dot of ich on one of its fins. i took it out immediately and quarantined it and started to treat it for ich. i called the lfs and they were very reluctant to admit that yes those fish had developed ich and were being treated. I went back 2 days later and all of the fish being medicated had already died!!!! i am using a sensitive fish ich medication so im assuming that they used api rid ich or something too strong. after a week of medicating the ich turned into a secondary fungus infection. I started secondary medication of erethramycin or however you call it and after another week infection was gone. I re-introduced the fish to the tank , but ever since then one fish at a time has been getting the ich/fungus and ive tried medicating them one at a time. Am i dealing with some super fungus? im starting to think i need to give up the ghost and medicate the whole tank. but then there might be another problem..
about a week ago my african dwarf frog died and i noticed yesterday that there was a white fungus/slime covering the tank/ornaments/plants/some fish... any ideas what this might be? My buddy that works at the pet store said they stopped carrying the frogs because they turn toxic once they die? i have been doing 50% water changes daily, should i take all of the fish out of the tank, do a 100% water change, clean the crap out of everything from the sand to the plants to the filter pads and the biomax as well to make sure i removed all the fungus/slime type stuff from everything, fill the tank back up with cycled water from my bigger tank, re-introduce the fish to the tank, and then medicate them while not using the carbon filter pads? should i leave one pad in and take the second one out? and the pads are fairly new do i need to replace them or can i rinse them in cycled water and reuse them? What steps should i take? sry for all the questions i just want to tackle this problem quickly and effectively. thanks
about a week ago my african dwarf frog died and i noticed yesterday that there was a white fungus/slime covering the tank/ornaments/plants/some fish... any ideas what this might be? My buddy that works at the pet store said they stopped carrying the frogs because they turn toxic once they die? i have been doing 50% water changes daily, should i take all of the fish out of the tank, do a 100% water change, clean the crap out of everything from the sand to the plants to the filter pads and the biomax as well to make sure i removed all the fungus/slime type stuff from everything, fill the tank back up with cycled water from my bigger tank, re-introduce the fish to the tank, and then medicate them while not using the carbon filter pads? should i leave one pad in and take the second one out? and the pads are fairly new do i need to replace them or can i rinse them in cycled water and reuse them? What steps should i take? sry for all the questions i just want to tackle this problem quickly and effectively. thanks
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