wright4lfe
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i've got a 8 inch albino tiger oscar and a 6 inch j.d. in a 90 gallon bowfront. over the weekend here in socal the temp got above 90 degrees. since it rarely, if ever, gets that hot, 99% of the homes do not have AC, including my apt. i was out all day sunday and wasn't home to monitor the temp of my tank (i keep it around 78 degrees). when i returned home later sunday night the temp was 89 degrees. i proceeded to do a 25% water change and add cubes into the filter to drop the temp. before i went to bed the temp was 81 degrees.
when i woke the next morning and checked the tank it looked like the face of my o had been torn at by the j.d. but the j.d. looked pretty bad too. they were both pretty aggressive towards each other, but had never been mean to each other in the past.
i proceeded to put up a divider in the tank, do another 25% water change and check the water params...
0 ammonia
7.2 ph
20 nitrates
0 nitrites
i may have my nitrates/nitrites mixed up because i'm at work and can't remember which was which...
after everything was done i added melafix to the tank to start the recovery process. here's where it gets wierd. when i add the melafix the fish jerk and twitch like i threw a twelve volt battery in the water. they do it for 3-5 seconds at the most, then go back to their daily routine....
is the jerking and twitching normal or what?
when i woke the next morning and checked the tank it looked like the face of my o had been torn at by the j.d. but the j.d. looked pretty bad too. they were both pretty aggressive towards each other, but had never been mean to each other in the past.
i proceeded to put up a divider in the tank, do another 25% water change and check the water params...
0 ammonia
7.2 ph
20 nitrates
0 nitrites
i may have my nitrates/nitrites mixed up because i'm at work and can't remember which was which...
after everything was done i added melafix to the tank to start the recovery process. here's where it gets wierd. when i add the melafix the fish jerk and twitch like i threw a twelve volt battery in the water. they do it for 3-5 seconds at the most, then go back to their daily routine....
is the jerking and twitching normal or what?