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| Grrrr.........So what do I do now? I am leaving very early in the AM tomorrow and won't be back until later Tues. afternoon. Can this wait until then? Will the LFS take the infected fish back? Do I get another fish from them? This really is a bad time for this to come about! I really can't isolate the infected fish. Will the other 2 end up w/ it since they came from the same store tank and they've been with the infected one? What do I do? Furthermore, it said that once in your tank, it's very difficult to get rid of it. So, how do I then prevent the 2 others from catching it. Or, if I do lose the 2 healthy ones, how would I then clean the tank to prevent this from happening in the future? I just don't know what to do right now! I am so beside myself right now, it's not funny! Why am I bothering with a tank? I had no luck with my comets and now I have neon tetra disease?! How is keeping fish supposed to be enjoyable? I'm just so upset right now! I've raised kittens from just 2 days old (orphans don't usually survive that young) to become happy, healthy cats. I've revived newborn puppies from C-Sections successfully. I can't keep a single fish healthy for more than a few days?! I really feel like a failure! I really am freaking out. I'm ready to start crying!
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| First off, calm down... I feel bad now that I talked about NTD... Um... look, why not just wait until Tues. afternoon? You know, relax, do whatever is needed, and don't start thinking about the fish.
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| I'm just a big animal lover, been doing rescue since I was 11 (17 years ago), and I worked at a vet for 13 years. I'm just really upset because 1st , I don't want anything happening to these guys, and 2nd, I went through you-know-what trying to keep comets. I want to actually ENJOY having an aquarium, and here I switch to tropicals on everyone's advice here and end up w/ possibly having NTD in my tank. I just don't see how it's fair. I bet you guys dollars to donughts that if I had just taken a tiny bowl, threw any random fish in there, and just fed it once a day, doing nothing else (like most people I know), I'd end up w/ a fish that lived for 100 years. But NO, I wanted to do the RIGHT thing by the fish I got. Anywho, I turned on the light this AM and all 3 were pale in color. I went to feed them and they weren't as interested in eating. They didn't race around chasing the food like usual.
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| Hm... If it was dark inside the room when the light was on, the neons were pale because they were sleeping (my neons and RCS do that) and they didn't adjust to daytime yet and weren't interested as much about food.
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I really think you are overreacting. Neon tetra disease is not very common any more, and I really doubt that your fish have it. Do a partial water change, don't feed them for a day or so, and stop beating up on yourself.
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| Hello, Lass is right, NTD is rare and what you have, based on the picture you provided, isn't well defined and thus can't be accurately diagnosed. There are literally thousands of things that could cause the symptoms you described. No less, about 99% of the possibilities will go away if the tank is otherwise healthy, which yours is. This being the case, my recommendation is to simply wait it out: don't feed the fish for a couple days, maybe do another water change soon, and stop worrying. In all honesty, I've probably had bad luck/been stupid with about 30 of my own fish and been negligent with about 500+ of other people's fish (when I used to work at the pet shop). My point is that mistakes are going to happen and that, in most cases, no one is really to blame. As usual, my advice is to not worry about anything but the Big Three (ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate)--everything else gets in the way and makes you worry for no good reason. MOA
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