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AnonymousPrime !/RDa1B/y1o
Hello again /an/,

I'd like to get an opinion on some of the Fish keepers here on this Arowana that I recently introduced into my tank.

He's at 7" long and was originally fed feeder guppies at the shop he stayed at. I've gotten him onto Hikari Carnavoire sticks and Hikari dry frozen Brine shrimp ever since.

Now, my problem today is, does this fish look like it has Fin Rot?

I discovered about a couple hours ago that my Rocket Gar had a small slit in his tail fin. I thought it might've been aggression from the larger Arowana, but then I noticed another slit on my Plecos tail as well my Senegal Bichir's tail. I've been doing water/gravel changes with the fear that I may have Fin Rot running rampant in my tank!

I googled "Fin Rot" because I had never had a problem with it before and it said that a sign of the infection may be red blotches on the fin tips, possibly like in this picture.

So what do you guys think? Reccomend? Brb, I need to finish up a water change.
>> Anonymous
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Ive got 9 bigass goldfish. Every couple months I fall behind on a water change or a fish just plain gets hurts, and catches something.

This shit fixes damn near everything. Melafix. Clears up finrot, and white fungus crap in as quickly as a day sometimes. You add like a capful or however much your tank needs everyday for a week without doing a water change. Concentration builds up over the week killing most anything tat with harm your fish. Just make sure to take out any carbon filters you might have, as they will soak up all the medicine. Shits made with tea tree oils too, so it smells REALLY fucking good. Your whole living room, or whatever room with the fish tank will smell nice.

Also a good thing to run along with the Melafix, is good old aqarium salt. Please for the love of god, dont use table salt. It has ammonia and will kill your fucking fish. get AQARIUM SALT, or if you know what you are doing you can find the right kind of salt for alot cheaper at a grocerie store, thats not regular table salt.

Usually salts measured as 1tablespoon for every 5 gallons. Thats good for helping cure sickness. lots of bacteria that make your fish sick, or grow on your fish go all DO NOT WANT with salt in the water and die.

You can use less than half that and go at 1tablespoon for every 15gallons, for a regular dose wich can be good for some fish anyway.

Go and do some research on salt doses though before you use it. But melafix, get that shit right away and use it or you could loose your fish. i dont even think there are any side effects to it either. You could probably pour the whole small bottle into a 25gallon tank and your fish would get kinda pissed, but it would kill them.

Also, the best treatment to keep your fish healthy is a good diet, and weekly water changes.
>> AnonymousPrime !/RDa1B/y1o
>>225248
That's exactly what I used, especially with the Aquarium salt, don't worry I have a carton of that Freshwater Salt.

Although I didn't take out the carbon... Crap, alright, I'll get that done in the morning because I probably have to change that out anyway, it's been over a month.

I hadn't done a water change in about 2 weeks, plus I'm a bit overstocked. I was down to splitting the fish into 2 groups and feeding a single group every other day but I guess that led to overfeeding, stupid me. Not to mention that I read old food can loose it's nutritious value and I've had the same bag of Hikari Carnavoire sticks and Algae wafers for half a year now...
>> Anonymous
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You cna free yourself from the clutches of carbon, and or ammonia packs!

Go buy a box of ceramic rings. Shit costs like $15-$20 for a small box, but they basically never need to be replced unless you crush them like a retard. Place them in your filter after the course filtration, or wherever you had your carbon.

They let little bacteria colonies grow inside their little holes and crevices that LIVE off of ammonia, and help reduce nitrites, and nitrates like a hot damn. basically all the carbon/ammonia removing granules do and more.

Just swirl them around in some tank water to clea them, and NOT under tap water whenever you clean your filter. The bacteria are really sensitive to the chemicals in straight tapwater, and itll kill them all.

Ive been using the same 4 boxes I bought 2 years ago in my bigass Fluval 405 Canister Filter.
>> AnonymousPrime !/RDa1B/y1o
>>225253
Oh geez, I have 2 boxes of that stuff along with the black rubber ones as well as the carbon in my Rena XP 3 Filter.
>> Anonymous
Can any of you tell me why when one of my carnie goldfish turned belly up and seemed dead until my dad got him out of the aquarium and put him in a jar of salt water it resurrected him and it lived for like another 5 years? It sounded like some impossible folk remedy but I guess it worked. Or something else happened. I don't know. Why did it seem to do anything atleast?
>> AnonymousPrime !/RDa1B/y1o
>>225331
That's pretty crazy, maybe the Goldfish wasn't exactly dead yet?
>> Anonymous
>>225331
That's a common technique.
The salt water kill bacteria and parasites.
However, one must use the right ammount of salt per water or else you just kill your fish.
>> Anonymous
i <3 arowanas

hope he gets better
>> Anonymous
but some aquarium salt and use the freshwater dose directions

just add it directly to the tank, and let it go away normally with water changes

the low amount of salt won't hurt your fishies, and it will help them with electrolytes or some shit like that

"fresh" water naturally has a tiny amount of salt so it's all good
>> AnonymousPrime !/RDa1B/y1o
Hey again /an/, thanks for the info

update - Pleco has the worst amount of fin rot, the Gar and the Bichir are still the same as before (only one slit on their tails), and even though the Arowana still has those red marks on the ends of all its fins, it has no cuts or slits on any of its fins so that's good.

I stopped feeding them for the past couple of days, fed them very little today because my Nitrates/Nitrites spiked hard, I've done a good 40% water change and I cleaned out the filter (Was pretty dirty, heh).

Anyway, I have a quick question about the Melafix. Of course it says to take out the carbon and to treat for 7 days. Do I keep the carbon out the entire time and then put it back in at the end with the 25% water change?

I've had a long day and my brain is borked, thanks.
>> Anonymous
>>226351

If your tank is well established you have no need for active carbon unless you're regularly dumping chemicals or any foreign substances in your tank that would otherwise harm your fish. Active carbon is useless in established tanks, take it out and leave it out. But to answer your question you take it our during medication and once EVERYTHING is done: medicating, water change etc, then you put back in. That is, if you wanna keep wasting money on active carbon.
>> AnonymousPrime !/RDa1B/y1o
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Ah, alright I figured that's how it went.

Yeah, that stuff is pretty much just to keep the water clear right? Leaving it out would leave space for some extra medium but this tank is relatively new, only about 2 months into full running. I might get a new thing of carbon and then take it out later on once I'm certain everything's in order. I still can't believe I let all that happen geez.