- Have you tested your water?
- Yes
- If yes, what is your ammonia?
- close to 0
- If yes, what is your nitrite?
- close to 0
- If yes, what is your nitrate?
- close to 0
- If I did not test my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be asked to do a test, and that water tests are critical for solving freshwater health problems.
- Do you do water changes?
- Yes
- What percentage of water do you change?
- 11-20%
- How frequently do you change your water?
- Every month
- If I do not change my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be recommended to do a water change, and water changes are critical for preventing future freshwater health problems.
i m looking for some help i have a few fish and each one is different with its fins or less worse i dont know i have been taking care of fish for 13 years but i didn't start worrying about diseases since last 5 years but this is getting out of hand even after i have probably handled 1000s of fish in numbers. black shark is around 30 cms and has the worse its fins have 2 3 white spots and quite torn rest of the fish i have in my tank that is at 26 27 c mostly its GH hardness is very high its at 600 ppm right now and i'll be doing a water change and going to fish shop tomorrow hopefully and lower the hardness. but hoping to find some help but the fish are
5 bronze cory
2 young Tinfoil barbs
2 young silver sharks
1 5 year old tilapia
6 gold fish'' 2 shubunkin' 3 comets' and other is breed i know is different but cant name
4 1 year old brislenose catfish
1 1 year old common pleco
1 adult redtail shark
6 angel fish temporary i m growing them up and i probably should of quarantine them before putting them in my 800 litre display tank
1 semi adult red claw crayfish
1 pearl cichlid
1 T-bar cichlid lost its mate cause i didn't catch the dropsy in time
tank is runed but a 2400 L/H canister filter clean well with tank water every 2 weeks
goldfish have had fin tearing problems for over 5 months its didn't travel to other fish and there hard to catch to put in methylene blue so yeah i put angel fish in 2 months ago black shark brislenoses pleco corys and goldfish got a lot worse in the last month probably up to a 20mm of difference of tearing i dont worry about water hardness often but most of the tanks i have are primed tape water ph 7.7 GH hardness normally 10 DKH 300 PPM ish i put some aquarium salt in 2 days ago and made everything worse and made GH go up to 600 PPM 204 grams of salt i had put some Indian almond leaves in to
Right now i moved all the tropical fish to a 300 litre tank with 30 ml of methylene blue and being runed with 2 large sponge filters i only have 1 300W heater i m getting more so the other fish in the display tank is the brislenose plecos and corys rest don't have fin tearing or much i can see at all even behaviour seems fine
its confusing i m not good with fin tearing and dont get it often and normally it doesn't become worse also doesn't bring white spots i dont know if this is the place to ask but if i can have directions to where to ask would be handle going to the fish shop doesn't help often i forget what they say when i get home so yeah cheers have a good one
5 bronze cory
2 young Tinfoil barbs
2 young silver sharks
1 5 year old tilapia
6 gold fish'' 2 shubunkin' 3 comets' and other is breed i know is different but cant name
4 1 year old brislenose catfish
1 1 year old common pleco
1 adult redtail shark
6 angel fish temporary i m growing them up and i probably should of quarantine them before putting them in my 800 litre display tank
1 semi adult red claw crayfish
1 pearl cichlid
1 T-bar cichlid lost its mate cause i didn't catch the dropsy in time
tank is runed but a 2400 L/H canister filter clean well with tank water every 2 weeks
goldfish have had fin tearing problems for over 5 months its didn't travel to other fish and there hard to catch to put in methylene blue so yeah i put angel fish in 2 months ago black shark brislenoses pleco corys and goldfish got a lot worse in the last month probably up to a 20mm of difference of tearing i dont worry about water hardness often but most of the tanks i have are primed tape water ph 7.7 GH hardness normally 10 DKH 300 PPM ish i put some aquarium salt in 2 days ago and made everything worse and made GH go up to 600 PPM 204 grams of salt i had put some Indian almond leaves in to
Right now i moved all the tropical fish to a 300 litre tank with 30 ml of methylene blue and being runed with 2 large sponge filters i only have 1 300W heater i m getting more so the other fish in the display tank is the brislenose plecos and corys rest don't have fin tearing or much i can see at all even behaviour seems fine
its confusing i m not good with fin tearing and dont get it often and normally it doesn't become worse also doesn't bring white spots i dont know if this is the place to ask but if i can have directions to where to ask would be handle going to the fish shop doesn't help often i forget what they say when i get home so yeah cheers have a good one
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, are all of these fish in the same tank or no? Also, what size tank is it?
