mickitiffen
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Dec 23, 2007
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I have a 20 gal FW tank, inherited from my late husband. I have 2 parrot cichlids, 1 pleco, 2 small cat fish, 1 clown knife and a tri colored shark.
Today the shark was wedged behind a rock and when I moved it I noticed his eyes were cloudy. His scales looked patchy and I saw a few spots that looked red. I called the local fish store who told me to use the Ick out sensitive. I had just done a w/c on 8/20 but they advised another one. I did that today and vacuumed out the tank.
The Eheim filter seemed a little sluggish so I tried to clean up the base part. I have green plastic air stone (?) and I tried to clean that to make sure it was producing a good stream air bubbles. Not sure if this needs to be replaced.
Tonight it seemed the fish were swimming near the top to the tank which seemed odd. The pleco is in a corner near the top. I added stress zyne thinking the fish may be stressed and also some aqua ban. My nitrates had been high before the w/c. Not sure why as I change the water/vacuum 1x a month. Earlier I had added Amquel plus and fertilizer 005 as well as aquarium salt.
Any suggestions about what else I could do for these fish? I am concerned about them.
Today the shark was wedged behind a rock and when I moved it I noticed his eyes were cloudy. His scales looked patchy and I saw a few spots that looked red. I called the local fish store who told me to use the Ick out sensitive. I had just done a w/c on 8/20 but they advised another one. I did that today and vacuumed out the tank.
The Eheim filter seemed a little sluggish so I tried to clean up the base part. I have green plastic air stone (?) and I tried to clean that to make sure it was producing a good stream air bubbles. Not sure if this needs to be replaced.
Tonight it seemed the fish were swimming near the top to the tank which seemed odd. The pleco is in a corner near the top. I added stress zyne thinking the fish may be stressed and also some aqua ban. My nitrates had been high before the w/c. Not sure why as I change the water/vacuum 1x a month. Earlier I had added Amquel plus and fertilizer 005 as well as aquarium salt.
Any suggestions about what else I could do for these fish? I am concerned about them.