ghostiephish
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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Some background:
My poor fish have had a time. Where we live got hit hard by the Nashville tornado, so their tanks were two days without power (covered them, aerated, etc.). Then they traveled 9 hours to family where we immediately setup new tanks and a had to do fish in cycling. (We managed to save 9 of our 16 fish, including 7 glass cats.)
This poor Angel is the last of her tank. A girl I think? She stopped eating when her mate passed, but I got her eating again. Originally I was treating her with stress guard. I noticed she was lethargic, I thought raised scales, hiding in corners, redness in her gills, and fins fraying. I switched to treating her with Paraguard, and she seems to have improved greatly, but now she seems to be getting worse again? New fraying of fins and some fins becoming see through.
Pics attached.
She's currently the only occupant of a 29 gallon tank.
Nitrities, Ammonia all 0 ppm
BUT, the water here is quite different from ours back home. Out of the tap its Nitrates are at 10ppm. (Which I realized after some futile water changes.)Also it is very hard water.
We use Seachem Stability to try and compensate for the Nitrate issue. And we did use a water pillow originally to soften the water some.
My main questions are:
1. Why are her fins transparent?
2. We arrived the morning of Mar. 7th, could it just be that she's overmedicated at this point?
3. Is there anything I can do to get my lady healthy again?
Thank you!
My poor fish have had a time. Where we live got hit hard by the Nashville tornado, so their tanks were two days without power (covered them, aerated, etc.). Then they traveled 9 hours to family where we immediately setup new tanks and a had to do fish in cycling. (We managed to save 9 of our 16 fish, including 7 glass cats.)
This poor Angel is the last of her tank. A girl I think? She stopped eating when her mate passed, but I got her eating again. Originally I was treating her with stress guard. I noticed she was lethargic, I thought raised scales, hiding in corners, redness in her gills, and fins fraying. I switched to treating her with Paraguard, and she seems to have improved greatly, but now she seems to be getting worse again? New fraying of fins and some fins becoming see through.
Pics attached.
She's currently the only occupant of a 29 gallon tank.
Nitrities, Ammonia all 0 ppm
BUT, the water here is quite different from ours back home. Out of the tap its Nitrates are at 10ppm. (Which I realized after some futile water changes.)Also it is very hard water.
We use Seachem Stability to try and compensate for the Nitrate issue. And we did use a water pillow originally to soften the water some.
My main questions are:
1. Why are her fins transparent?
2. We arrived the morning of Mar. 7th, could it just be that she's overmedicated at this point?
3. Is there anything I can do to get my lady healthy again?
Thank you!
