you broke a cardinal rule. never add new fish to old tank without quarantine.
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/c...e%20new%20fish
you need to check your water parameters. nitrates are probably way high.
start changing out 15 gallons every day. add salt to the tank.
http://weloveteaching.com/puregold/d...rtmnt.htm#salt
the brown stuff is diatoms. completely harmless altho some nice green algae would be
better. need better light.
what are you feeding? get some freeze dried krill or daphnia and just feed a pinch
at a time. Ingrid
fhapgood wrote:
Now I see to my dismay that the small fish is eating up the fins of
the big one.
I kept these two GF, both on the order of 7-8" in a 50
gallon tank. I swap out 5 gallons a day, every day. My filter isn't
much,
About a year out of nowhere I started getting some kind of growth in
the tank. It's like a brown algae, which I guess means it might be a
fungus, though in fact I think I have read that there are brown algae
-- they carry enough brown pigment to overpower the chlorophyll.
That's what it looks like, but it doesn't seem like the fish are
eating it. After a year or so one of the big fish died. Perhaps there
was a connection -- I think the GF fish were about ten years old,
which might be getting on for a GF or it might be the first blush oif
adolescence, I dunno. After the first fish died I noticed that the
second started to look "old" -- slow and lethargic and quiet. It sits
on the bottom of the tank a lot doing nothing, which it didn't use to
do. Perhaps it is getting old or perhaps the brown algae killed the
first fish and is now burdening the survivor. On the other hand the
feeder fish I just got, the fin eater, could
not have been livelier.
Any of this ring a bell with anyone??
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