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Dustin's fish tanks bringing it to you. Sick again... yes I am sick. My fish are also sick.
It's a sick video. I want to show you wants going on. I left work early today because
I was a snots sprinkler. Didn't really feel that bad until I started chilling at home.
Then it kind of hit me so I been kind of taking it easy. But I owe you a video. And I want
to tell you what's going on. First and foremost, I hate killing fish and I absolutely killed
3 of the festivum you see here, this guy. And I 3 of the severums that I had that I
got from Peru. So I'm kind of sad about that but I killed enough fish in my day to not
get overly sad. I figure you all can learn something from it. So I'm going to do this
video, as bummed as I am about the fish. I left the fish on Friday in the 125 and we
had a really really cold spell then a really really warm spell. I had like 3 heaters in
the greenhouse. I left them, had Brian check on them and he said that the festivums looked
fine. Those guys right there. I thought they were good. He said they looked good. Well
what happen was that they had some big gills, something was wrong with their gills. When
they died, their gills swelled up. It wasn't something I can actually; otherwise I would
have taken preventative measures. The purpose of this video is to show you guys how I am
treating these guys and how it's going. I haven't done a video on sick fish in quite
a long time. I am kind of pumped to show you this. I've got them in a 20-gallon tank. How
to make sick fish feel better. 20-gallon tank. Probably 3/4 of the way full. What I'm doing
is I've got a big oversized heater and I'm running the tank at 82 so it's a little warm.
I'm not sure if you can see that. The purpose of that is to heat it up so the parasites,
so the fish metabolism speeds up so it can process it. It might kill the parasites. What
I mean is you want the tank warm. You definitely want it warm. What I am using here, I'm not
sure how to pronounce it. Brian gave it to me. It's pronounced Malachite green and methyl
blue and these are obviously not the original containers but you're going to want to follow
the instructions. I'm doing 2 drops everyday on these. And I been running it. I have not
done water changes. It says not to do water changes because you want that stuff to really
sit down in there. Some of my older videos, I've battles some ich because I added fish
too quick to a new tank. And I was doing water changes when I shouldn't have been doing water
changes. You're supposed to just let the tank sit with the medicine and let the medicine
do its work. So I been doing 2 drops of each. I started doing this on Sunday. The one fish
I put in here didn't make it. It was one of the severums. It could barely swim. It was
out of it. I probably should have just euthanized but I didn't. I tried giving it a shot to
live. But it didn't make it. Everyone else is doing good. What I'm doing is I'm feeding
them the best I've got which is bloodworms. Feeding them bloodworms. And I been soaking
them in this stuff and I been trying to give them whatever good stuff I can through there.
Feed them the best stuff you can. So that is what I'm doing. Feed them bloodworms. I
been doing this for 4 days. I'm going to do this for 7 days. This is a very important
thing to do here. You want to complete the cycle of the medicine. The fish look good
now. They are swimming around. They look hungry. They know I'm around. They are active. So
this is all a good sign. I will slowly feed them in a second. But you also want to treat
all the fish. Treat them the whole duration. Treat all the fish. Treat them for a full
or maybe even 7-8 days. I'm actually going to do a water change tomorrow. So go about
4 days then mix it up and do a water change then add the medication back in. so high temps.
Medicate. Do not do water changes. Do water change about half way through the treatment
but read the medication. Again the medication is malachite green and methyl blue. This stuff
by the way, keep way the hell away from your kids. It will make a huge mess. I want to
pour this in here and my goal here is to see the severum eat. I'm sure these guys will
eat but here you go boys. As you can see there, hungry, happy. The severum comes over and
you can see some spots on him. I thought that was ich, its actually not. It's some other
kind of parasite. These are actually wild caught fish so who knows what they are carrying
with them. I take the rat but I killed them. The temperature swings didn't help. So I am
sad about it. Don't give me and scuff about it because I'm already bummed that I killed
some fish I brought back from Peru. I really wanted a school of festivums to be honest
and now I only have one. Maybe I will hit up my man Devin with Margarita Tours and have
him ship me some. They are eating. This is a good sign. Treat all the fish. Do the full
cycle. Let them roll. That's what's going on. I'm pumped to see him eating right there.
My man, its my last guy, its my last severum. My fish are getting healthy. I need to get
healthy. I been sick back to back. Kids just tear it out of ya. I wanted to show you guy
show I'm doing it. I would love to hear your comments on treating sick fish. I don't have
sick fish all that often. This was kind of a new experience to me. Usually I'm not good
at treating them. They are sick they usually end up dying. So I'm glad able to get these
guys eating. If they are eating that's a good sign. If they are not eating, you might be
in trouble. Try some garlic. That's what's up. Later.