My fish are broken!!!?

Question

Ok. So my fish doesnt have ich. Its a glass fish and he has these white things growing on his tail. We treated it with ich/ick medicind twice, and fungus medicine once. I also have this red platy who is turning orange. Or i have really bad eyes and he has dropsy. How can i tell? And can fish eat spinich? If so, how do i feed it to them? I also have about 36 or 35 fish, how should i feed them their obsessive amouts of food without it going everywhere? And would 5 aglae eaters be good enough for that amout of fish? Or is is too much?

Answer 1

Could be your fish are tumorous or getting chemical burn from clorenated water. Do you de-clorenate the water? Could be some other disease and maybe the fungal meds are not strong enough. Chemically water will also dialute and weaken your medications strength. Dull coloration in fish often indicate poor water quality and lack of oxygen. Get a better filtration system and oxygenator. Dont over feed, give a couple pinches. Over feeding and un eaten food cause oxygen eating bacteria that cause poor water conditions. 1 to 2 algae eaters or Plecostmus will be enough These fish are rapid growers and based on tank size and food availablity can grow to monsterous size. Too many and they will fight and kill each other.

Answer 2

Glassfish are particularly susceptible to ich, and you can't cure it with a couple of doses of pet store medicine. Look it up on the Internet.---Fish can eat spinach if you start with fresh and blanch it,(two minutes in boiling water,then a quick dip in cold water to stop the cooking.). You can also do the same thing with zucchini or Romaine lettuce. Don't leave the plant material in the tank over night,siphon it out and top up the tank with a little treated(dechlorinated) water. Don't know if you need that many algae eaters,the tank is probably overcrowded now.If you have an algae problem,do more water changes and shorten the length of time that the lights are on. --------PeeTee

Answer 3

I would take out the sick fish and try to clean the tank so that others will not get it
the rest of the fish may get sick iwth the treatments you are giving the one who is sick. This could very well what is wrong with your platy. It could be that there are too many fish in your tank. I had split up the amount of fish in my tank and now have better and healthier fish and the tanks stay cleaner now. What size tank do you have? Ask your local Pet store to see what they have to say about the number of fish one should have in the tank size etc.

Answer 4

so many problems -- if nobody else in the tank has ich or anything in the time you have treated him then its probably not ich. dropsy is easy to spot. they get swollen looking and their scales stick out so they look like a pinecone. i think you might be over obessing a little.

i feed my goldfish spinach. my bettas don't like it. bettas like green peas though. most fish love green peas. for spinach you need to cut it up the size of pellets and boil it for two minutes. with peas you boil them for two minutes and take the ouside shell off and chop up the insides to little pellet sized bits. i recommend you get hikari pellets. they float on top and the fish can nab them and you can tell whats been eaten and what hasn't because it floats.

algae eaters aren't that good at tank cleaning. i recommend shrimp instead. they are much smaller and often amusing and really cheap. you can keep a lot of them in a tank too. i have 2 bamboo shrimp that have 4 filter hands. they call them flower shrimp because their hands look like little flowers. they eat what they can filter out of the water.

Answer 5

first of all, the big question is what size tank do you have? i'm hoping you have at least a 100 gallon tank for that many fish.....

as for your platy getting lighter, it could be that he's getting old, sometimes they lose their color..... how old is he?

yes, you can feed your fish spiniach, lettuce, anything like that, just get a leaf holder.... it's like a chip bag cilp on a suction cup that you stick to the inside of the tank. clip the leafe, then stick it to the tank.

at least 5 algea eaters at a time (I'm thinking cory cats, chinese suckers, otos, etc...) because they are schooling fish, belive it or not..... they are happiest that way.

not sure what to tell you about your glass fish without seeing it....

good luck

Answer 6

I had a similar difficulty after I bred my oscars and my tremendous arrowana broke some thermometers till i considered a concept and it worked. keep on with a usual thermometer with a suction cup. Now upload an better suction cup on the bottom so as that once your oscar hits the thermometer it has no position to bypass and its preserve. the better suction cup acts as a padding so the thermometer doesn't hit the tank. attempt putting the thermomter in the nook of the tank.