Sick angelfish

Question
Hi Aaron,

 Im hoping you can help me and I apologize for this being so long. I have talked to Renee and as she had some good ideas, Im not sure that they worked. About 3 weeks ago, I noticed that one of my angels mouth was red on the inside and where his side fin attached to his body was red and seemed "swollen". He would go up to the top as if he was hungry, get a piece of food then spit it out. At the smame time one of my corys had gotten a fungus around his mouth. So I treated the tank for a fungas treatment and consulted Renee who tld me that it wasnt a fungus. So I treated it with a bacterial medicine. The  fungus meds didnt seem to work to get rid of the redness or the fungas looking stuff on the cory, but it did imporve their eating. Well since then I got a new tank because the old one was leaking, I changed and cleaned everything ebfore transfering them all. Now 3 of my other 4 angels seems to have red fins, and my black one has a sort of white film on it. I spoke to Renee and she said that she thought that 1. it was a poisen or burn. 2. it was chloramine and to treat it and 3. that my parrot fish were beating up on my angels. I have had all these angels with the parrot fish for a fw months and they were all fine together. the parrots only beat up on each other. Im running out of options, one angelfish died this morning. I have upped the temp in my tank, treated it for the chloramine and put in aquarium salt everyday. Every other day it seems that I get the little white spots of ich on some of the fish, but they go away. Please help!!! I dont want any more to die, but I dont know what else to do- I dont have much moer money either.

Answer
well I have kept angelfish all of my life, and have learned a lot about them. The only possible disease it could be is gill rot, but if that were the case they would have died within a day. My guess is that your water has a high chlorine content. What you have done is burned there gills. You did the right thing by raising the water temp, but unfortunately there survival rate is very low at this point. one possibility would be to put stress coat in your tank go 10 ml over the recommended dose. this will allow there gills to heal, but if this doesn't work then I'm afraid they wont make it. if they do die restart your tank and make sure everything is perfect before you add fish..





hope this helps