Got the girls!

Ok, so they finally came. The five girls I ordered plus two extras that Ashley (from Ontario Betta) decided to throw in. They're all alive, despite the delay. They were supposed to be shipped overnight, meaning they should have been here yesterday, but I assume the delay was due to the weather.

Anyways, they're alive and seem to be ok for the most part... which is better than I expected with that delay. Still, one of them appears to have dropsy, which I have never dealt with before, and it's usually caused by kindney failure, which means there isn't really a cure. Another has some cuts (I think they're cuts... I hope they're just cuts...), which should be ok with clean water and aquarium salt and I suspect that a third may have ich, but that should also clear up with the salt.

Now... I have school work to do... I'll keep you guys posted.

Spike has ich

So I was going to post pics of Spike this morning, but apparently he has ich (why do all my new fish always get ich?) so I've added salt to his tank (1/2teaspoon per gallon) and I'm keeping it dark and hopefully he'll get over it in the next few days.

Post!

I realize I've been neglecting the blog... sorry... so busy...

Anyways. Maddi has recovered from ich, constipation and fin rot. It was wierd... I did a water change and didn't have time to put the decorations back in, and she's suddenly fine. I think it was the marbles I was using as ground cover. Either way, she's fine now. The constipation and fin rot went away on their own and ich went away with salt and darkness.

Just got some fish shipped to me from someone in Winnipeg. Four fish and only one survived. I think it was because there was only one heat pack and it's winter up here. If there had been two and they were attached to the bottom rather than the top (heat rises), all four might have lived. The one that survived is currently floating in my heated 2.5 gallon to try and get him to perk up a little.

Also, I bought a 12gallon tank, along with a heater and a filter and some other miscellaneous stuff off of a friend for $40. Such a good deal. Once I have a chance to clean and decorate it, it'll be my new sorority tank.

Rose...

So he's got an insanely severe case of ich. Added salt, keeping him in the dark and going to buy Aquarisol this afternoon... hopefully I can afford it...

Posted pics... in case anyone needs to be like "hey, that's what my fish looks like!" and then you'll know what to do...

More on Rose

So apparently it's just ich that came on really fast (which is such a relief...) so I've added more salt and I'm trying to raise the temperature so he can get through this thing... and hopefully he'll get better.

Also... careful when you have a sick fishie. You can easily cross-contaminate the tanks, and then you'll have lots of sick fish. I wasn't as careful as I should have been yesterday when I decided to clean Maddi's tank and now she's got ich, too >.<

Rose is sick again...

It's strange. It looks like ich, and he's acting like he has ich... alternating being irritated with just sitting looking miserable on the bottom, like he has before when he had ich... but it came on so quickly that I don't think that's it. One night he was fine and the next morning he was just covered with white spots. Usually it's just one or two spots and they go away quickly when I start treating them.

So... I'll write more when I know more. Treating it like ich with salt for now.