coxyhammer
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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Can someone help?
I bought a pair of rams last week.
I have a mature 3ft aquarium which has plenty of bogwood, plastic plants for hiding places, general lighting, an external fluval filter which has 3 sections to it,the bottom compartment contains the white plastic chips that were supplied from new to act as the pre filter and the rest is foam, the water is returned via a gentle spray bar, airstone, fine gravel, temp is 28 degrees, the amonia, nitrite and nitrate levels are fine. I'm not sure of the PH and hardness is but the shopkeeper who is 5 miles away from my home says they have not altered the water in the shop tanks so my PH at home should match.
The rams are the only fish in the tank apart from a pleco. I kept coldwater fish in the tank before moving them into a pond and had no problems before a heater was introduced 48 hours before the Rams were introduced.
The rams settled in well for the first few days and were even looking like they were about to spawn.
In the last day or so, the male fish especially has began to flick against the bogwood and plants, darts about and sometimes his fins appear to flicker very quickly. I've also noticed one of his eyes seems to be cloudy.
I've looked up possible reasons for this and have looked at the fish closely, they have no spots anywhere. I did a 30% water change today and introduced the new water over an 8 hour period so the water temp did not flunctutate too much, the water was treated the night before with the bog standard chlorine removal agent (tetra watersafe) and also safe start for friendly bacteria.
I am not sure what to do next? I've seen some people suggest adding salt, if so what type and how much? Or perhaps administer a dose of medication, if so which one shall I use?
Thanks !!!
I bought a pair of rams last week.
I have a mature 3ft aquarium which has plenty of bogwood, plastic plants for hiding places, general lighting, an external fluval filter which has 3 sections to it,the bottom compartment contains the white plastic chips that were supplied from new to act as the pre filter and the rest is foam, the water is returned via a gentle spray bar, airstone, fine gravel, temp is 28 degrees, the amonia, nitrite and nitrate levels are fine. I'm not sure of the PH and hardness is but the shopkeeper who is 5 miles away from my home says they have not altered the water in the shop tanks so my PH at home should match.
The rams are the only fish in the tank apart from a pleco. I kept coldwater fish in the tank before moving them into a pond and had no problems before a heater was introduced 48 hours before the Rams were introduced.
The rams settled in well for the first few days and were even looking like they were about to spawn.
In the last day or so, the male fish especially has began to flick against the bogwood and plants, darts about and sometimes his fins appear to flicker very quickly. I've also noticed one of his eyes seems to be cloudy.
I've looked up possible reasons for this and have looked at the fish closely, they have no spots anywhere. I did a 30% water change today and introduced the new water over an 8 hour period so the water temp did not flunctutate too much, the water was treated the night before with the bog standard chlorine removal agent (tetra watersafe) and also safe start for friendly bacteria.
I am not sure what to do next? I've seen some people suggest adding salt, if so what type and how much? Or perhaps administer a dose of medication, if so which one shall I use?
Thanks !!!