Brought some extra fish home from my LFS because I didn't get enough for a school the first time a few months ago.
My tank was happy and well established before I added them. Now, less than a few days later, all of the new fish have passed and my original fish have this white (fungus? bacteria?) and they're slowly dying off. Clearly also causing swim bladder disease.
Currently I'm treating the with API MelaFix antibiotic, three days into treatment it seems to be getting worse. please help ;3;
Posted by JupiterInTheSky
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Ph 7.6, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 25ppm. Gh 180, kh 180
10gal
U did not quarantine? 😐
Assuming u did not Q, it should have been the first thing you did. Even for the simple reason that you said that said tank was already well established. With Fish or no fish it doesn’t matter.
Now you have introduced a pathogen to your established tank.
Instead of wasting your time curing them with whatever you have or advised with, it is a sick tank already.
Dump them and start over.
Painful as it is, learn from it.
I would remove the fish first, if you want to tey to treat them or euthanize that’s on you.
Remove whatever plants that can be salvaged without too much damage to roots & treat those.
Remove hardscape, driftwood and treat that.
Empty and start again.
OR
Seeing as this is a relatively new problem you can remove the fish and attempt to treat your tank with salt.
What is all in your tank? Live stock.
I normally run Melafix and Pimafix for the first week after introducing new fish. Try that combo, I have saved one of my emerald cory cats that has gotten sick more than once using that combo. Not sure why, she has gotten some sort of infection or damage to her dorsal fin more than once.
That would be a fish