Weird behavior

[agentamalia]

I just saw one of my males and my female platy just sitting on the bottom of my tank right next to each other. I put my hand to the tank where they were and they swam away. Why would they be doing that? Are they sick?


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[FishayFishay]

Water parameters?

 

[agentamalia]

0 nitrate 0 nitrite alkalinity 180 hardiness 75 pH 7.4


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[agentamalia]

Ammonia 0


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[agentamalia]

They are fine now but it was just ofd


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[FishayFishay]

Have you made any changes in the tank lately? Can you take a picture or two so I can kinda see what's going on.

 

[mikem691]

Male and female what?

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[Coursair]

Zeros across the board is not normal.

I would do a water change and retest , are you using test strips ?
Maybe take a sample into a store that uses API master test kit also ?

Anytime my fish act weird, I do a 50% water change.

What temp ?

What size tank ?

What is total stock ?


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[agentamalia]

They are platies I'll get a pic they were fine now they are doing it again only the one male and female


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[livefishguy124]

did you recently turn the lights on?

 

[agentamalia]

I always have the light on


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[Fishdude3233]

And you don't deal with algae issues?
Also 0 nitrate means that there is a inaccurate reading what test kit are you using?


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[agentamalia]

No there's no algae I have the strips. I'm going to get the water test tonight I heard it's more accurate


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[Fishdude3233]

Yup the strips arnt accurate


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[livefishguy124]

like you have lights on 24/7!!!
whats in the tank(fish, plants, gravel)
what filer you have is the tank heated (what temp)
what kind of lights you have.
and test the water again.

 

[Fishdude3233]

like you have lights on 24/7!!!

whats in the tank(fish, plants, gravel)

what filer you have is the tank heated (what temp)

what kind of lights you have.

and test the water again.

Testing the water with strips won't do any good. Test it again with the liquid kit
But I do agree with the light situation, cut back to 8 hours a day

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[agentamalia]

Ok I have 3 platies and 2 tiger barbs in a 20 gal. No live plants just fake and gravel and 1 cave. I turned the light off and I will be getting a water test kit this evening the temp is 76 I have a heater set to 78


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[agentamalia]

I bought the tank set at petco it came with the filter I forget the name though


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[Fishdude3233]

The tiger barbs should be in a school of at least 6


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[agentamalia]

I'm getting another tank tonight and once it's filled and cycled I'm separating the breeds so I will get more tiger barbs once they are seperated


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