Newbie questions

[Full3R]

if there loosing there tails it could be fin rot, or the 3 new guppies could be biting there tails off

[SanBill]

We just set up our 55 gal fresh water tank a week ago. My husband had a loggerhead turtle skull that he has had for 30 years that he thought would look neat in the tank :D . We put it in about 3 days ago and have lost 2 fish and there is fuzz growing from the turtle head :!: so I took it out. Is there anything I need to do to our tank to medicate the other fish they are just guppys but we do like them and want other fish.

[William]

It is not likely that the turtle diseases (likely fungus) can infect the fish.

The turtle might have eaten the "lost" fish. Or do you by lost mean that they died in a disease?

[SanBill]

Yes they died, the turtle head was also dead it was a skull. I do believe that they had Ick. I have treated the tank and they seem to be much better. I never knew that there was so much to do with a fish tank but we do love it.

[William]

It goes u and down. when something have gone wrong there are lots to do but when eveything is going right there is much less that needs to be done.