flatty
Aquarium Advice Regular
I am having an issue with one of my black neons. My wife notice today that it was swimming oddly basically vertically with his head up . Seems to be swimming swiftly in small bursts about midlevel of the tank. His gills seem to be sticking out a good bit. It is possible his back is bent slickly awkwardly.
I checked the water parameters and the ammonia, nitrates, etc look good. the PH has been creeping lower in our city water supply( 6.5 or so) so a few days ago I tried raising it to about 7.2(tried for 7). I know now i should have just left well enough alone.
The tank is a 36 gallon planted bow front close to fully stocked and has been set up for two years. I have a hob and a canister filter and both are operating fine. The fish have all been in the tank from virtually the beginning.
I do weekly water changes in the 30-40% range and vacuum the substrate during those changes. The only change I have made was trying to raise PH. What am I possibly looking at here as the symptoms dont seem to perfectly match anything.
I checked the water parameters and the ammonia, nitrates, etc look good. the PH has been creeping lower in our city water supply( 6.5 or so) so a few days ago I tried raising it to about 7.2(tried for 7). I know now i should have just left well enough alone.
The tank is a 36 gallon planted bow front close to fully stocked and has been set up for two years. I have a hob and a canister filter and both are operating fine. The fish have all been in the tank from virtually the beginning.
I do weekly water changes in the 30-40% range and vacuum the substrate during those changes. The only change I have made was trying to raise PH. What am I possibly looking at here as the symptoms dont seem to perfectly match anything.