Ok, so I went to Pet Warehouse already and the girl there knows crap about fish. She sent me home with a bottle of copper stuff for saltwater aquariums and I don't even have salt water.

My catfish is sick, and I don't know what it is. Here is what I know:

1) I've lost 2 fish in the last 2 weeks. Both African cichlids.
2) My Pleco, Jack, and Jaguar all show now symptoms.
3) I just did a 75% water change.
4) I do 50% water changes ever other week.
5) I tested; water is hard, nitrites were a bit high.
6) I added aquarium salt per directions

I have attached some pictures. Someone please let me know. Thanks!


His little "feelers" are normally about 4 times as long


Note the two "spots" on his body. WTF is that????


Gills, they seem normal.


Jaguar, no symptoms...yet!


Pleco, no symptoms, but I'm not really sure that these fish die.

What are you water perams. ph nitrates all thos things

how long has the tank been running

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tank has been running for almost 2 years trouble free. Hold on and I'll post chem values...

We need tank size, age and what are your actuall test readings, if you have nitrites then it sounds like your tank is cycling, did you have a big PH drop

what is your typical WC schedule

Nitrate: 85 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
General Hardness: 250 ppm
Alkalinity (KH): 100 ppm
PH: 7.0

55 Gallon tank. total fish = 5 (pleco, catfish, jag, jack, oscar)

I do 50% WC every other week.

Ammonia looks like 0.8-1.2 (my ammonia test is freakin' worthless. Stupid...bottles...)

Could be ammonia burns get some more wc's done soon and with that bio load you need to do 25-30% twice weekly IMO

I have 2 filters installed, each designed for 50 gallon aquariums, and I have a power-head with filter designed for 70 gallon aquariums. I just purchased this "ammonia removing gravel bag" for one of my filters. It's a big bag of white rock that just sits inside there. Also, I just did a 75% water change. Should I do more right now??

ammonia can burn fish? Could it cause my catfishes whiskers to rot off like that???

I hate to say this but if you just did a 75% WC then your trates were close to 200 and your ammonia was close to 4.0 and thats what probably did it

If you have added salt then that will slow down the ammo carb because you can regenerate it by soaking it in salt water. I would try to get a 50% change done yet tonight and another one in the morning

I am an old timer and thats what we use to call it and I have seen it do things like that to fish same with a PH crash down into the acidic range

I'm doing another ammonia test right now... I will post results

Ok, this ammonia test says "For ammonia as nitrogen (NH3-N) divide results by 1.22"

I have no idea what that means.

The results are: 2.4

Is my fish gonna die?

What brand is it???

Try to get a water change done ASAP ands do you have an air pump and air stone if so get it in the tank and running.

Try to get those 2 things done do you have any Prime, Stress Coat or Amqual if so dose according to the directions

Ammo test is made by Hagen. It has 3 bottles (1 of them is a little bottle) a test tube and a mini turkey baster thingy.

I have all my air stones running. I can hook up my power head so it blows mega bubbles in the tank if that will help?