Does anyone know what this is????

[puccie1]

My puffer came down with this over night this is a new tank set up I had running about 5 days, had trouble early with fish dying so I broke it down and bleached the hell out of it. Used Fritz bacteria to cycle along with crush coral with live bacteria. Can the new tank withstand copper power treatment at this time?

 

[whalewhalewhale]

I hope that rock isn’t leaching bleach…

Also 5 days is pretty short for cycling with dry rock.

 

[AviR]

Parameters? What’s ammonia at

 

[jackintheboxfish]

Not sure what’s wrong with the fish but yeah there definitely could be residue bleach leaking into the water. I would add a decent amount of chlorine neutralizer like Seachem Prime just to be safe

 

[puccie1]

Parameters? What’s ammonia at

zero ammonia, thinking of taken sponge out of my big tank and placing in my 75 gallon tank for a day before introducing copper power to strenghten the bacteria bed. and then slowly add copper power for 5 days to bring it up to 2.25.

 

[vetteguy53081]

My puffer came down with this over night this is a new tank set up I had running about 5 days, had trouble early with fish dying so I broke it down and bleached the hell out of it. Used Fritz bacteria to cycle along with crush coral with live bacteria. Can the new tank withstand copper power treatment at this time?

This is bacterial and fish should be treated right away using seachem Kanaplex, First change water and also add Air stone during treatment. What substrate are you using ?
Not advise to use any substrate and/or rock when using copper which absorbs it and never ramp it which allows disease to take hold of the fish. Again treat with broad spectrum treatment which would be Kanaplex and in a separate tank or container
How are you testing the water ?

 

[puccie1]

This is bacterial and fish should be treated right away using seachem Kanaplex, First change water and also add Air stone during treatment. What substrate are you using ?
Not advise to use any substrate and/or rock when using copper which absorbs it and never ramp it which allows disease to take hold of the fish. Again treat with broad spectrum treatment which would be Kanaplex and in a separate tank or container
How are you testing the water ?

with test kit, everything is in balance.

 

[rayadog]

with test kit, everything is in balance.

Think it was more of type/brand of test kit question, to gauge an accuracy range of the test results

Edit: I was gonna ask what would be the reason for copper but I think you’re pointed in a better direction now.

 

[vetteguy53081]

with test kit, everything is in balance.

What type of kit?

 

[winxp_man]

with test kit, everything is in balance.

Hanna products are usually the best are getting more accurate parameter numbers.

Salifert for cal, and mag. Although I have good results even in these parameters with Hanna.

Salinity with Tropic Marin hydrometer.

But yes this looks bacterial as Vette stated. I usually see these types of issues when the tank has really dirty water.


Edit: how is the fish breathing? How’s it eating if at all? Does it still get up to swim?