byork
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I have not seen this before or if I have I do not remember. Background... Maybe unneeded info... I have always wanted my angels and rams in my 120 and my west africans in my 50. As it happens when i got my angels i put them in my 120. of course they got/were sick and 120 + 30 gallon sump is expensive to treat. So they went into a 29 for about 2 months for treatment. By the time they were cured i had already decontaminated the 120 and moved some Africans. So they went into the 50. I was out/off of work last week so I did it. I set the tanks up almost the way I want. Angels, rams, corys, plecos and a couple of other compatible species in the 120. I also added 2 female gbrs and 2 male angels. africans in the 50. The important stuff.... One of the gbrs began looking like he may have hith yesterday. I tested the water yesterday; 0 ammonia 0 nitrates 60-80 nitrates 2 d•kH I figured the nitrates were high (caused the hith/brought it on) because I fertilized as I typically would have and should have reduced the dose. I have him quarantined him alone treated with general cure. Yesterday started feeding metronitizole to every tank, paranoia. I preformed a big WC 50%+ today. New tank parameters; 0 ammonia 0 nitrites 5 nitrates 2 d•kH 1st thought maybe raise carbonate hardness but I have not. The tank is co2 injected and on a controller the pH fluctuates between 6.77 and 6.53 daily (at 2 d•kH) The other males GBR has stopped protecting his female and has a pimple/cyst looking thing on his side.
You can see it in the picture on his lower abdomen. Should I remove him too? i am running out of qt tanks (I have cardinals In another treating with macaryn plus). If I do qt him what should I treat for and with? I thought about netting him and trying to get a sample to analyze under the microscope but that would probably stress him A LOT. Please advise.
You can see it in the picture on his lower abdomen. Should I remove him too? i am running out of qt tanks (I have cardinals In another treating with macaryn plus). If I do qt him what should I treat for and with? I thought about netting him and trying to get a sample to analyze under the microscope but that would probably stress him A LOT. Please advise.