Hey everyone,
This is my first post on here.
Last night my orange Dwarf Gourami was fine, eating, swimming around happily and then I looked tonight, he's turned black over his head and down half of his body on both sides and has a patch of white fluffy stuff on his head - guessing it's fungus. He's sick as he isn't eating, and half the time he's laying down on his side and breathing hard. His scales look fine and he isn't bloated. He's currently sitting in a cup as I thought if he's left too long in my main tank he will -if he already hasn't - make the other fish sick.
He lives in a 20 litre tank with three other Dwarf Gouramis, a baby Angel Fish, a female Fighting Fish, a female Platy and nine baby Platies in a floating tank. The other Gouramis look fine and are eating, though two of them have seemed to be sluggish for a while now.
I did have high ammonia, it was 8 and I've gotten it down to 0 in about three days doing 50% water changes daily until it was down and used Stress Zyme+ after each change and just replaced what I took out each time. I also had high nitrate at I think, 5 and now it's also 0. The tank temp ranges from 26 to 29.
I've had a few issues with this tank before in the past. Originally it was used as a hospital tank for an axolotl with white spot and it kept coming back on him. After that the tank was left to sit for about a month or five weeks when I got two other Gouramis and then about a week later I got this Gourami and another, along with two Platies and the Angel Fish. The first night I had them, I noticed a Gourami had a white spot and then I treated that and it cleared up. While treating the white spot, I noticed flat patches of white come over my female Platy. They seemed to come and go, usually come back whenever I did a water change or added more fish. I treated that with Tri-Solfa also.
A few weeks later I got two female fighting fish, and bought white spot, fungus and fin rot home by accident as I didn't get the right female fighting fish I asked for, and hadn't noticed it in the tank. The next day she had died. I had treated the tank with Tri-solfa and none of the other fish got it thankfully. About two weeks later, without adding anymore fish, I noticed my male Platy was sluggish and had the white patches on him, over his head. I thought maybe he was just stressed, as at times he would be alright, swim around and eat and then he wouldn't bother at all. One night I turned off the light and noticed his scales were risen, thinking it was TB, I got him out and had to put him to sleep as I have never been able to save any fish with it in the past and only seen it spread through the tank. :'(
And after all that, now this has happened to my Gourami, without adding anymore fish or anything. I had the high ammonia and nitrate about a week or so ago. I am wondering if the treatments are only cleaning up the tank and not the filter as the filter isn't that strong, and the same issues are coming back after a while. I'm wanting to move them to a 34 Litre tank as I think this one is also too small for the amount of fish I have in it. The white patches are still on my female Platy, though she is perfectly fine.
Please, can someone help me!
This is my first post on here.
Last night my orange Dwarf Gourami was fine, eating, swimming around happily and then I looked tonight, he's turned black over his head and down half of his body on both sides and has a patch of white fluffy stuff on his head - guessing it's fungus. He's sick as he isn't eating, and half the time he's laying down on his side and breathing hard. His scales look fine and he isn't bloated. He's currently sitting in a cup as I thought if he's left too long in my main tank he will -if he already hasn't - make the other fish sick.
He lives in a 20 litre tank with three other Dwarf Gouramis, a baby Angel Fish, a female Fighting Fish, a female Platy and nine baby Platies in a floating tank. The other Gouramis look fine and are eating, though two of them have seemed to be sluggish for a while now.
I did have high ammonia, it was 8 and I've gotten it down to 0 in about three days doing 50% water changes daily until it was down and used Stress Zyme+ after each change and just replaced what I took out each time. I also had high nitrate at I think, 5 and now it's also 0. The tank temp ranges from 26 to 29.
I've had a few issues with this tank before in the past. Originally it was used as a hospital tank for an axolotl with white spot and it kept coming back on him. After that the tank was left to sit for about a month or five weeks when I got two other Gouramis and then about a week later I got this Gourami and another, along with two Platies and the Angel Fish. The first night I had them, I noticed a Gourami had a white spot and then I treated that and it cleared up. While treating the white spot, I noticed flat patches of white come over my female Platy. They seemed to come and go, usually come back whenever I did a water change or added more fish. I treated that with Tri-Solfa also.
A few weeks later I got two female fighting fish, and bought white spot, fungus and fin rot home by accident as I didn't get the right female fighting fish I asked for, and hadn't noticed it in the tank. The next day she had died. I had treated the tank with Tri-solfa and none of the other fish got it thankfully. About two weeks later, without adding anymore fish, I noticed my male Platy was sluggish and had the white patches on him, over his head. I thought maybe he was just stressed, as at times he would be alright, swim around and eat and then he wouldn't bother at all. One night I turned off the light and noticed his scales were risen, thinking it was TB, I got him out and had to put him to sleep as I have never been able to save any fish with it in the past and only seen it spread through the tank. :'(
And after all that, now this has happened to my Gourami, without adding anymore fish or anything. I had the high ammonia and nitrate about a week or so ago. I am wondering if the treatments are only cleaning up the tank and not the filter as the filter isn't that strong, and the same issues are coming back after a while. I'm wanting to move them to a 34 Litre tank as I think this one is also too small for the amount of fish I have in it. The white patches are still on my female Platy, though she is perfectly fine.
Please, can someone help me!
I was talking to my mother about it and saying if it came down to it, I'd just keep my Angel Fish and my female Fighting Fish, she said both of them should be fine in a 9 litre Betta tank, which I didn't agree with at the time, and now reading you're advice I really see that wouldn't work at all, even with the size my Angel Fish is at right now - about the size of a baby's palm. Thank you for your time and help.