Madness said:
OK, I guess. But I still have an issue with this. Erythromyacin is a gram positive medications, and will also wipe out your entire beneficial bacteria population. The illnesses that you believe to be what your fish have/had are gram negative as well as most issues in our aquariums. So using Erythromyacin in my opinion is a waste of time, effort and money.
I am just trying to help, in the end it is your decision
I know you are trying to help and I appreciate it. I'm not really sure that it was columnaris or any of the others. It's the only things that I could come up with for mouth type fungus in google search, but after talking to Cory, it didn't seem like that is the only one and the erythormyacin is for common mouth fungus. The other reason I thought it was that was due to the growth on the air tube, but Cory told me that he has seen that stuff growing on air tubing before and it was fairly normal and usually harmless. I had never seen it before in any of my tanks that I have ever had running. I am thinking that this is MAYBE due to that fact that this is a softer airline tubing that I typically use....possibly silicone, but not really sure. It came with the led bubble wand, so I rinsed it and used it, instead of digging out some of my stash of tubing. As far as the beneficial bacteria goes, I will keep an eye on that. I had read that about this medicine before I went and got it. I have extra media seeding for my next tank set up. It's not what I had planned on doing, but if this tank crashes, it will be what I will have to do.
Vicmacki said:
I have an extra liquid ammonia test kit, you just gotta come to marysville to get it.
No problem. Just let me know where and when you would like to meet. My schedule is pretty flexible since I don't work.
MattArmstrong said:
flamechica said:
So, the best I've got is what little bit of the white crap that I couldn't get very easily off the air tubing without pulling it all out of my substrate and disrupting my sword and making a mess of things....
If you do a google search for "aquarium white stuff on airline tube" you'll find a lot of people asking about similar things. No definitive answers. I saw no one else reporting illness or deaths occurring along with it. My guess would be that it neither causes nor is caused by whatever else is harming your fish.
I did do a google search and most people that had it didn't have fish in their tanks. Then once I found that one of my fish had the white stuff in their mouth and white dots on him and started reading about diseases that that could be, I did find some instances where columnaris did grow on things in the tank. However, those people did not include pictures of what that looked like. But yes, I showed the pic to Cory and he told me the same thing, that it was most likely harmless and it was fairly normal, but no one really knows what it is. I am thinking that it might be due to the type of tubing that is used. I have never seen this growing in a tank before. I usually use the harder more plastic type tubing in my tanks, but this bubble wand came with a softer, almost silicone type tubing, so I just used what came with it, instead of digging out my stash of tubing. Most people that were asking about this also had it on silicone type suction cups, etc. What it is? I have no idea, but it likes silicone and that is my theory until someone proves me wrong. LOL!