All fish are dead trying to keep other alive

[alsokol]

I had something in my aquarium that killed all the fish within a week. It looked liked ich but perhaps it was something else. Water quality is good in terms of ph, ammonia, nitrites and nitrates. I have a fire shrimp, snails and hermit crabs. I am trying to figure out the best way to keep them alive. I am not planning putting new fish in for at least a month. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[kres1024]

Probably marine velvet ,can appear like ick but kills quickly if not caught in time

 

[alsokol]

Thanks Kres.

Any suggestions on shrimp, snails and crabs? They are still alive! How do I keep them alive?

 

[Dre]

If they are still alive they most likely will be fine.

 

[KathyC]

Continue to feed the tank- but in very small amounts and they should all be fine.

Since you are not 100% certain of what killed the fish, much better to err on the side of it possibly being a parasite that would take longer than 4 weeks to die off. You seriously need to consider leaving the tank devoid of fish for 10 weeks or you could end up killing anything else you add to it

 

[Sharkbait420]

How long has your tank been running? If it is a fairly new tank I will just start over, with bottled bacteria you can get things started pretty quickly. Look into seachems bacteria. I am sure there are a lot of things you would change if you can start over. I am starting over and loving it. I am gettimg a bigger tank, new aquascape and new livestock.

 

[Brando457]

I had velvet wipe out my entire display except 1 fish survived treatment.

I drained the tank completely, removed all rocks, removed all sand. Ran fresh water through everything. I then rescaped and added fresh water for 24 hrs. I drained again and then cleaned my sand also in fresh water. I just added the sand and refilled again with fresh water.

Plan is to run the tank with fresh water for 48 hrs then drain it and fill with RO water.

I am going to cycle the tank with shrimp and wait the couple weeks, but I'll rest assured knowing that the velvet/ich is dead and by the time I qt my new fish and move them to the display I should be okay.

 

[jdino]

I also went through a velvet wipe out a few years ago. You can keep your tank going. The spores will die off without any host fish. They will not bother corals or inverts. The thing is it takes about 4 weeks for the spores to die off. I waited 8 weeks before I put fish back in my tank. Even if you clean everything I would still wait at least 8 weeks before putting fish back in the tank. How do you think you got it? New fish? I just noticed Kathy said 10 weeks before new fish. I would listen to her advise.

 

[Tangster]

I just went through an icy wipeout about a week ago, it took about a week to kill off all the fish except for two clowns which it then got a week later. once one fish dies, nitrates rise and make the rest of the fish vulnerable. all the fish were new and still about a week in the tank. the icy went from the weakest fish and then moved on from fish to fish before it got all of them. quarantine all new fish and as you wait for the quarantine process to happen, let the tank sit for about 8 weeks minimum.

 

[beastium]

The title made me picture ghost fish cheering on live fish lol

 

[oh207]

The title made me picture ghost fish cheering on live fish lol

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