"gothicat" wrote in message
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Dear all,

I am looking for some advice. I am a complete novice at fishkeeping
and I have a serious problem in my tank. The tank has been up and
running since the beginning of the year, I've kept a close eye on the
water quality and it always seems fine. The tank is a juwel trigon
350litre, I have a huge piece of bogwood, a small piece of mapani
(excuse spelling!) and some live plants (at the moment only fern-type
plants, as the clown loaches and moonlight gouramis keep digging up the
elodea and grassy plants). I also have a separate hospital tank, which
only has gravel in it.
I've now lost all my dwarf neon gouramis and flame gouramis to disease,
not sure of the disease, but they started to develop holes in their fins
and then developed big red sores and then died. I treated both the
tanks with Myxazin, but to no avail. I've also lost a couple of flame
tetras to dropsy, which I used octozin - this seemed to work.
I have been told that these 2 treatments are the only ones I can use
because I have clown loaches, but I don't think they work well!
I've also been told to strip out the tank, clean the bogwood, gravel
and filters (I always hoover the gravel and bogwood when siphoning the
water out), but am afraid that this will stress the fish who are
already under stress of disease. I have thought about putting the
loaches into the hospital tank so that I can treat the big tank with
stronger treatments, but again I'm afraid this will stress the
loaches.
I have just bought the following and wondered if these are safe for the
loaches (naturally I follow all directions and dont mix treatments), the
packaging says it's safe for all fish. Interpet 9: Anti internal
bacteria, King British: revitaliser tonic, Melafix, and Doc Wellfish's
aquarium salt. Can I use these?
The fish I have a tetras (neon, flame, albino glowlight, yellow
phantom, rosy), silver shark, king tiger plec, moonlight gouramis and
of course clown loaches. The shark, loaches and plec have not shown
any signs of disease.

I would be very grateful if anyone can help me with these problems - I
hate the fact that my pets are ill and I don't have a clue how to help
them.


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gothicat

Check your water quality for nitrite/ammonia/pH/nitrates and report back the
results.
Gill