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Your sick Altum Angels
Randy wrote:
Subject: Ultraviolet Filters
Hi,
after putting 2 altum angelfish in my planted tank, they and my other
angelfish in the tank came down with some kind of diseases.it looks like
some kind of white slime on their body and eyes and their fins are all
raged.i tired using Aquari-sol for a few days but it was getting worse so
today i switch to using Ampicillex hopefully that will work.
i am thinking of adding a Ultraviolet Sterilization Filter to my tank what
i am wondering is will it cause problems in a planted tank. dose anybody
have anything good or bad to say about Ultraviolet filters. and if they
are good to use can anyone recommend a good one.
Randy,
Your Angels have probably died by now and I'm pretty certain that they had the Angel and Discus
disease (probably a virus). They do not respond to medication and I have found that the best
results are to immediately drop the pH to 4 (yes, four); keep it there until the fish are
entirely well -- then slowly raise the pH to the preferable 6.8 (IMHO). Sometimes this takes
two weeks for a cure, but it is the only thing that seems to work! The reason that I believe it
to be a virus is that, once cured, they do not get this problem again.
Good luck!
Merrill Cohen