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Do I do a water change to a 2.5 gal tank to treat my betta who I originally treated with another medication?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

My betta has been sick for the last wk. He is in a 2.5 gal heated tank. He has been lethargic, not eating, breathing rapidly and just basically lays on a silk plant all day long. At first I though he had fin rot because he had clamped fins too. I put in some bettafix and saw no results. I then tried a bit of Jungle Fungus Clear, again no improvement to the betta. Then I noticed a shiny spec near his gill and thought he had ich. I purchased ich guard and have been treating his tank for 3 days now. There has been no improvement at all. Before puttting in the ich guard I removed the betta and dumped and rinsed the gravel and cleaned the aquarium. I kept 50 percent of his old water and also added new water to fill the tank. I waited for the water to clear and temp to get to 78 before returning Mr. Limpet to the tank. I do use spring water I have been checking the betta to see if I notice anything on him & the spec which appears like a shiny fleck is still there. One gill seems to flare

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What are these things in my fish tank?

Posted on January 12, 2011 by admin| 8 Comments

They look exactly like limpets-see link->http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/Tank_critters.shtml They are the ones in the picture on the left. They are all over my tank, and are climbing up out of the water-stuck to the sides of the tank, and all over the rocks. They feel hard on the outside, and are almost super-glued to the sides of the tank. We took all of our fish out of one 30gal tank, and into this other one. The former tank-even though it has been empty for about a month now-also has these things in there-stuck to the sides of the tank. I can’t tell if they are alive or dead now…but I have looked up fish lice, and then came across this photo-which is exactly what they look like. I am still not convinced-alot of things could look like those right? I just want to know exactly what they are. Alot of fish have been dying off recently too, but I don’t see any of these things on the fish.
Most of them seem to like staying up out of the water(closer to the light maybe?) We have pushed them down below the water line-and they move back up, out of the water. They have a hard outer shell. (we switched tanks because of a leak-we didn’t know the tank had these things in there-the empty tank still has some water in the gravel as well).

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Do I do a water change to a 2.5 gal tank to treat my betta who I originally treated with another medication?

Posted on November 28, 2009 by admin| 2 Comments

My betta has been sick for the last wk. He is in a 2.5 gal heated tank. He has been lethargic, not eating, breathing rapidly and just basically lays on a silk plant all day long. At first I though he had fin rot because he had clamped fins too. I put in some bettafix and saw no results. I then tried a bit of Jungle Fungus Clear, again no improvement to the betta. Then I noticed a shiny spec near his gill and thought he had ich. I purchased ich guard and have been treating his tank for 3 days now. There has been no improvement at all. Before puttting in the ich guard I removed the betta and dumped and rinsed the gravel and cleaned the aquarium. I kept 50 percent of his old water and also added new water to fill the tank. I waited for the water to clear and temp to get to 78 before returning Mr. Limpet to the tank. I do use spring water I have been checking the betta to see if I notice anything on him & the spec which appears like a shiny fleck is still there. One gill seems to flare

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What are these things in my fish tank?

Posted on November 13, 2009 by admin| 8 Comments

They look exactly like limpets-see link->http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/Tank_critters.shtml They are the ones in the picture on the left. They are all over my tank, and are climbing up out of the water-stuck to the sides of the tank, and all over the rocks. They feel hard on the outside, and are almost super-glued to the sides of the tank. We took all of our fish out of one 30gal tank, and into this other one. The former tank-even though it has been empty for about a month now-also has these things in there-stuck to the sides of the tank. I can’t tell if they are alive or dead now…but I have looked up fish lice, and then came across this photo-which is exactly what they look like. I am still not convinced-alot of things could look like those right? I just want to know exactly what they are. Alot of fish have been dying off recently too, but I don’t see any of these things on the fish.
Most of them seem to like staying up out of the water(closer to the light maybe?) We have pushed them down below the water line-and they move back up, out of the water. They have a hard outer shell. (we switched tanks because of a leak-we didn’t know the tank had these things in there-the empty tank still has some water in the gravel as well).

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