JamieB
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Hi all
Difficult one for you all here. I've been to my local aquarium shops and no one knows what the issue is with my Ember Tetras. Firstly here's a picture:
Now this Ember seems to be turning black from the inside. It's perfectly healthy and eats fine until about a week before it dies where it gets these spots all over it and then dies and turns completely white.
It then seems to infect 1 or 2 other fish and goes again.
Now this sounds parasitic right? But it's not breeding as I've only lost about 4/5 fish over the last 6 months to it. I can't remember if my Neon's get the issue too but it obviously is affecting my embers.
2 aquarium shops have no idea what it is and suggested dosing the following 2 things
eSha Exit
eSha 2000
I did these on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday last week and no help but I'm not sure how long these take to kick in.
The tank is an AquaOne AquaNano 40 with the standard filtration consiting of a large sponge block, ceramic noodles and Purigen, I left ALL of this in whilst dosing and didn't water change. Not sure if this is too little but I've had the tank for about 3 years now and these embers have been in about 10 months.
I have some aquarium salt to try but not sure what you guys think? I've also been advised to take out the sponge foam and the purigen and redose with the eSha 2000 and the salt after doing a 20% water change.
Any ideas firstly what it is and secondly if the above would be advisable?
Thanks all
Jamie
Difficult one for you all here. I've been to my local aquarium shops and no one knows what the issue is with my Ember Tetras. Firstly here's a picture:
Now this Ember seems to be turning black from the inside. It's perfectly healthy and eats fine until about a week before it dies where it gets these spots all over it and then dies and turns completely white.
It then seems to infect 1 or 2 other fish and goes again.
Now this sounds parasitic right? But it's not breeding as I've only lost about 4/5 fish over the last 6 months to it. I can't remember if my Neon's get the issue too but it obviously is affecting my embers.
2 aquarium shops have no idea what it is and suggested dosing the following 2 things
eSha Exit
eSha 2000
I did these on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday last week and no help but I'm not sure how long these take to kick in.
The tank is an AquaOne AquaNano 40 with the standard filtration consiting of a large sponge block, ceramic noodles and Purigen, I left ALL of this in whilst dosing and didn't water change. Not sure if this is too little but I've had the tank for about 3 years now and these embers have been in about 10 months.
I have some aquarium salt to try but not sure what you guys think? I've also been advised to take out the sponge foam and the purigen and redose with the eSha 2000 and the salt after doing a 20% water change.
Any ideas firstly what it is and secondly if the above would be advisable?
Thanks all
Jamie