Rachel0001
Aquarium Advice Regular
My Africans have been getting skinnier and skinnier over the last few months and I'm not sure what to do now.
It started about two weeks after I introduced 3 peacocks that had been in QT for a month. They'd been treated in the beginning of QT with Jungle's Parasite Guard because I thought they were a little skinny and I had noticed there were a few sunken bellies in the tank they'd been in. Almost a month after treatment and no symptoms they went into the main tank.
All my fish, the Peacocks included, have no other symptoms of internal parasites. They are all active, great eaters, and I've had 4 fish holding this month. No stringy white poop. But, they keep getting skinnier. I've heard that sometimes the lower fish on the totem pole can be skinnier but they're all getting food and my bosses are skinny too. I feed them once a day with NLS Thera-A.
I've got 6 yellow labs, 10 yellow tail Acei, 6 red zebras, 3 peacocks and 1 rusty in my 100 gallon tank.
Water parameters:
Am: 0, NO2: 0, NO3: 20-40 (sometimes jumps to 80, makes me crazy! I do 50-75% PWC when the reading gets this high), pH: 7.8-8.0.
40% PWCs or more every 5-7 days.
A month ago I treated with Prazipro, following the directions to give two doses with PWCs between them. No changes, and I may be imagining things but a few look a little more sunken.
A week ago I gave the first dose of APIs General Cure (metronidazole and praziquantel), and the second dose 48 hours later, then followed 2 days after that with a PWC.
I know it's too soon to tell if that is going to work. But if it doesn't....any ideas?
It started about two weeks after I introduced 3 peacocks that had been in QT for a month. They'd been treated in the beginning of QT with Jungle's Parasite Guard because I thought they were a little skinny and I had noticed there were a few sunken bellies in the tank they'd been in. Almost a month after treatment and no symptoms they went into the main tank.
All my fish, the Peacocks included, have no other symptoms of internal parasites. They are all active, great eaters, and I've had 4 fish holding this month. No stringy white poop. But, they keep getting skinnier. I've heard that sometimes the lower fish on the totem pole can be skinnier but they're all getting food and my bosses are skinny too. I feed them once a day with NLS Thera-A.
I've got 6 yellow labs, 10 yellow tail Acei, 6 red zebras, 3 peacocks and 1 rusty in my 100 gallon tank.
Water parameters:
Am: 0, NO2: 0, NO3: 20-40 (sometimes jumps to 80, makes me crazy! I do 50-75% PWC when the reading gets this high), pH: 7.8-8.0.
40% PWCs or more every 5-7 days.
A month ago I treated with Prazipro, following the directions to give two doses with PWCs between them. No changes, and I may be imagining things but a few look a little more sunken.
A week ago I gave the first dose of APIs General Cure (metronidazole and praziquantel), and the second dose 48 hours later, then followed 2 days after that with a PWC.
I know it's too soon to tell if that is going to work. But if it doesn't....any ideas?