Female Angel and parasites

"Trai Dagucon Rathsack" wrote in message
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Good afternoon all -

I have a pair of angels, the female, poor thing - when I got home the
day before yesterday, she had no right fin, and the other was also
bitten down far. The male was being aggressive AS I watched.

I'm having a few problems, hopefully you all can help me.

1: I moved the male angel out to a larger tank with a couple of silver
dollars (comparable size, so they won't get picked on too much) and
some other peaceful fish. What can I do to help the female angel heal
and regrow her fins?

2: I have a HORRIBLE problem with algae in the tank. I scrape and
clean at LEAST every 10 days. I change water. I used the water
conditioner. When I moved the male, I looked very closely at the
algae and AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...some kind of parasite was on the
glass. A minute, slim, somewhat long thing. WHen I say long, I mean
in terms of its width. It looked and moved like (for a visual
reference) brine shrimp hatchlings. Except I only saw them on the
glass. I didn't see any on the fish, but she's silver and black and
the male is blush. They were everywhere. I used something in her
tank, but I have a problem now - I may have infected my main tank and
I have loaches in there.

Any ideas as to what the parasite is? I used a medicine for fish lice
and some other parasites, and that knocked them down a peg. I still
saw some this morning though

ANy help is appreciated,

Trai



treat the Angelfish with Melafix or Primafix available from your local
fish store. Works wonders, is all natural and will not harm the biological
filter. What you are likely seeing on the glass is a worm and not a
parasite. Very common in tank, particularly if you have been overfeeding
which can also account for part of your algae problem Fish food is high in
phosphate and overfeeding will cause algae issues. Clean your glass well,
vacuum the gravel after cleaning the glass and giving the algae time to
settle to the bottom, cut your feeding way down. Feed small amounts, just
enough for the fish to eat and that none settles to the bottom of the
aquarium and providing you aquarium is not sitting where outside light gets
to it for a large part of the day, your algae should clear up. The worms are
harmless although they can attack new born fry or eggs. It escapes me at the
moment what to use to get rid of them, possibly something like an Ich
medication, Quick Cure or similar however if you do a google search on this
group for worms you will no doubt get your answers.

Rick