help save my L066's

[Wulf]

My tank got an infection of sorts. My large Cichlid died. Lost a L066 already. Used Protozin, and now on Multicure.

Have been trying to save plecos - they dont seem infected but mollies and dwarf gouramis are.

Symptoms = bloat, white wounds on side, white specs on face and mangled lips. Lost so far 9 dwarf gouramis, 50+ endler livebearers, 1 L066, 1 large Red Zebra.

Should I put the plecos in a small spare tank and just empty the tank now and clean it out? then put the plecos back in by themselves?

Freaking out!

 

[Brengun]

If you empty the tank it will be uncycled and prone to ammonia/nitrite spikes.
Refill the tank to half or 3/4 full and use Seachem Stability or something to protect the fish from ammonia. When you see the amounts rising add more water to dilute until the tank is full and add more stability.
Thereafter you will need to remove a portion of water every day and add new water to dilute nitrites. Keep adding stability or similar, daily for a few weeks until the tank is recycled.

Sometimes just removing the affected fish and maintaining a nice clean tank is enough without removing all fish and scrubbing it. Worth a try.

 

[Wulf]

I have been doing 25% WC every day since i put in the Multicure. So should I just keep this up etc? nitrates and ammonia and not very present, ph is 7.1.
I am concerned over the 'sickness' in the tank still and losing another or all 5 other L066ers...

 

[Brengun]

Should be all getting back to normal by now.

 

[Irene0100]

sounds bad. dont know that med or whether it is the right one so cant advise much. good water is always a good help when infection in tank. I use EHSA2000 but dont know if you can get that.

 

[bigbird]

Ww sounds bad. How big of a tank and how many fish to you have in this infected tank ? Cheers jk :thumbup: