Help!
I have a 10-gallon freshwater tank with these fish inhabiting the tank:
1- Regular Goldfish
2- Blue Mickey Mouse Platies
2- Glowlight Tetras
I used to have another goldfish, a redcap oranda but he unfortunately battled dropsy for sometime and i euthanized him peacefully. However, I did everything that I could to save the others and to save him, using marycyn II and taking the carbon out of the filter, and all of the directed tactics to attempt to save a dropsy stricken fish. However, Bubbles didn't make it out alive, he died about 2 months ago. Tonight, I walked into my room and found a blue mickey mouse platy on the bottom, dead, and was bent almost in half he was so bent. What does this mean?! Is there anything I can do to improve the tank conditions? I have a thermometer, it is always between 75 and 80 degrees. I change the water and filter once a week, and I strip the tank down to nothing and clean it once a month. I have done that for 3 years now, with this same batch of fish. I also add aquarium salt to the new water I add in, de-cholornate the water with the appropriate aquasafe amount, and I use preventative ich and other infection drops. I have live plants in the tank to balance the excessive amounts of chemicals such as phosphorous, that could be present as well. The fish I have had have seem very hardy, knock on wood, but now that the current goldfish I have is by herself since Bubbles died, and now there is only one platy left, they act very jumpy and scared to be alone. What can I do to help them relax more if I do not want to buy more fish? Also, is there something I did for this platy to die so suddenly and is there a reason why his body was bent? Did he have a disease? Could it be contagious? I need to know asap! PLEASE HELP ME. :help:
I have a 10-gallon freshwater tank with these fish inhabiting the tank:
1- Regular Goldfish
2- Blue Mickey Mouse Platies
2- Glowlight Tetras
I used to have another goldfish, a redcap oranda but he unfortunately battled dropsy for sometime and i euthanized him peacefully. However, I did everything that I could to save the others and to save him, using marycyn II and taking the carbon out of the filter, and all of the directed tactics to attempt to save a dropsy stricken fish. However, Bubbles didn't make it out alive, he died about 2 months ago. Tonight, I walked into my room and found a blue mickey mouse platy on the bottom, dead, and was bent almost in half he was so bent. What does this mean?! Is there anything I can do to improve the tank conditions? I have a thermometer, it is always between 75 and 80 degrees. I change the water and filter once a week, and I strip the tank down to nothing and clean it once a month. I have done that for 3 years now, with this same batch of fish. I also add aquarium salt to the new water I add in, de-cholornate the water with the appropriate aquasafe amount, and I use preventative ich and other infection drops. I have live plants in the tank to balance the excessive amounts of chemicals such as phosphorous, that could be present as well. The fish I have had have seem very hardy, knock on wood, but now that the current goldfish I have is by herself since Bubbles died, and now there is only one platy left, they act very jumpy and scared to be alone. What can I do to help them relax more if I do not want to buy more fish? Also, is there something I did for this platy to die so suddenly and is there a reason why his body was bent? Did he have a disease? Could it be contagious? I need to know asap! PLEASE HELP ME. :help:
you can find them at petco and petsmart, and they're also on amazon. You start that vacuum by sucking on the open end, and pouring the water into a bucket 
every time you strip that tank, you start your cycle over and open your fish up to even more disease then if you just left it alone. 
