SandyCheeks
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My 6 yr old Red cap Oranda (who I love dearly) has very red streaky tail/fins that started today. Tail and around her face appear flaky. Eating ok. Bottom sitting behavior. The tank cycle crashed sometime in the last week - ph fell from 8.2 to 6.2 with ammonia and nitrite spikes. Not sure why, maybe the record high summer heat?
Normally tank is ph 8.2, am 0, Nitrites 0, nitrates 20.
BUT I tested today and ph is 6.2, Am .5 and nitrites .25 .
Tank has been up for 3+ years. Filtration is 2 canisters - Fluval 406, Fluval 306 and large HOB. 2 large Air stones. Tankmates are 4 Full grown fancies. I do 80-90 percent WC once a week.
Changes: new food, using HikAri gold instead of Hikari lionhead.
Record high temps, 108 degrees outside, 84 inside, water temp has risen to 78.
Set up a hospital tank to quarantine. I am not sure how to treat, if it's ammonia/nitrite burns, fin rot/bacterial, septicemia, fungal, internal? So far have only added 2 tbsps salt in 15 gal hospital tank.
Medicine on hand: triple sulfa, maracyn 2, Api fungus cure, methylene blue, Prazipro, Metro+ metronidazole, Metro-meds and Medi-Gold.
Thank you!
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Normally tank is ph 8.2, am 0, Nitrites 0, nitrates 20.
BUT I tested today and ph is 6.2, Am .5 and nitrites .25 .
Tank has been up for 3+ years. Filtration is 2 canisters - Fluval 406, Fluval 306 and large HOB. 2 large Air stones. Tankmates are 4 Full grown fancies. I do 80-90 percent WC once a week.
Changes: new food, using HikAri gold instead of Hikari lionhead.
Record high temps, 108 degrees outside, 84 inside, water temp has risen to 78.
Set up a hospital tank to quarantine. I am not sure how to treat, if it's ammonia/nitrite burns, fin rot/bacterial, septicemia, fungal, internal? So far have only added 2 tbsps salt in 15 gal hospital tank.
Medicine on hand: triple sulfa, maracyn 2, Api fungus cure, methylene blue, Prazipro, Metro+ metronidazole, Metro-meds and Medi-Gold.
Thank you!
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