Henryw25
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About a week and a half ago, I started the copper treatment to get rid of a parasite... or what I thought was a parasite... Everything seemed to be going okay. The hospital tank they were getting the treatment in seemed to be spot on.
The copper levels were settling around 5 tenths. The pH was at 8.2, nitrite & nitrate were at 0, and the ammonia was around 2 tenths. The water was clear, and the fish seemed comfortable.
Then for about a day, the clowns started looking ill and were swimming on the surface. The first thing I thought was an ammonia spike, I tested the water and everything was unchanged as listed above. So I decided to wait until the next day to see how everything was doing. I got up the next morning and all but one fish was on the bottom dead. I have no idea what could have happened. I took the remaining fish from the hospital tank and put him back in the host tank.
This leads to my next observation. I observed that none of the fish showed signs of a parasite in the hospital tank even days before the treatment was started. Then when I transferred him back over into the host tank, he immediately started flashing again within seconds. Maybe it's not a parasite and it's something else that has to do with my host tank water?
Does anyone have any ideas of what could have caused the death of these fish or what could be infecting my host water? I am planning on transferring the little bit of bio life I have left into a QT and doing a full water change. What do you think?
The copper levels were settling around 5 tenths. The pH was at 8.2, nitrite & nitrate were at 0, and the ammonia was around 2 tenths. The water was clear, and the fish seemed comfortable.
Then for about a day, the clowns started looking ill and were swimming on the surface. The first thing I thought was an ammonia spike, I tested the water and everything was unchanged as listed above. So I decided to wait until the next day to see how everything was doing. I got up the next morning and all but one fish was on the bottom dead. I have no idea what could have happened. I took the remaining fish from the hospital tank and put him back in the host tank.
This leads to my next observation. I observed that none of the fish showed signs of a parasite in the hospital tank even days before the treatment was started. Then when I transferred him back over into the host tank, he immediately started flashing again within seconds. Maybe it's not a parasite and it's something else that has to do with my host tank water?
Does anyone have any ideas of what could have caused the death of these fish or what could be infecting my host water? I am planning on transferring the little bit of bio life I have left into a QT and doing a full water change. What do you think?