Newbie with a fungus problem?
With the amounts of water you are changing daily, I’m now beginning to get suspicious of the ammonia and nitrite test results remaining at their previous levels. If this continues, I’d have to suggest your looking further at these tests, their reagents or the manner in which they’re being read. If these are found to be A-OK, then I would suspect that (1) much of you present ammonia is from your water supply coming to you as chloramine, and/or (2) your filter is far from being cycled, or by now the ammonia-converting bacteria should be sufficient to take care of any influx of new ammonia/ammonium, even though the nitrite-converting bacteria may not yet be expect to keep up. We’ll work on it though.
Noticing Lucille’s Septicemia is unchanged. While its not especially expected that all fish involved, affected by the same parameters which may have brought this on, should necessarily develop Septicemia, after time exposed to these same parameters (if they do still exist) it could be looked forward to seeing some development of this in the other fish. If its possible, can you get a pic of Lucille, showing these streaks?
Are all fish still eating? If it does become necessary to treat for Septicemia, it should be welcomed to note that it is deemed safe to use Maracyn II (an antibiotic of choice for Septicemia) in conjuction with PraziPro. Too, PraziPro is seen to be a rather mild medication, which also should be a welcomed bit of info.
As Lenny mentioned, there’s no need to get a dechlor in addition to Prime, as Prime will do the same thing. Your apparent (by you) need for a dechlor might suggest to me that you feel you have chlorine in your tap water which you want to detoxify. Are you quite sure you do not have chloramine in your tap water, and if you know you do (but then, why would you want a dechlor?), you should be aware that your Brita filter on your water supply may not remove chloramine — or may be only limited in its effectiveness against chloramine. If you have chloramine, which I just assumed all along as more and more water companies are converting to this, not only should you have been using at least your Amquel+ all along (preferably, Prime), but you should not consider using a dechlor (which removes chlorine only) in an effort to save money, as was suggested unless you’re sure you only have chlorine. Otherwise, you should use Prime now, and continue to use it if your ammonia results indicate your having this waste product and regardless of your Brita filter, if you know this is in your water supply. A quick call to your supplier should tell you. Ray
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