Hi again,
So since the 2nd of jan, i moved my discus back to the DT because the QT began to get high ammonia and nitrite.One of the four discus is still doing pretty good. Breathing fine, using gills fine, he eats everything i give him, flakes, pellets, frozen bloodworm and brine shrimp. The other three are doing okay, they still eat but only the frozen bloodworm and brine shrimp. But, the other three still occasionally clamp there gill, scratch, and twitch their fins. Although i do have sand for substrate in my DT and some times they get sand on their pectoral and anal fins so they kind of twitch to get it off.
It all seems like skin and gill flukes to me, but i don't understand as apart from those symptoms the fish are great?? They are always together, they are still eating, the colours are still amazing, their fins are up, they peck around at each other... And some much more that make them seem so healthy? It's so frustrating not really knowing for sure what it is? Because what i have learn't is that i should not assume because although it might seem like gill flukes it might not be..
So i have discovered a few more things that could be irritating them.
The first thing i have noticed is i kind if have and unstable pH? Not sure why? Never had this problem and i thought i didn't but i think i do??
Second thing is that there are some small white parasite looking things floating around my aquarium, they came in from my outside tap when i used it to refill the DT whilst the discus were still in the QT. Could these be irritating them? I would hate for the very small ones to be hooking onto the fishes gills.
I have however noticed improvements in gill functioning. Yesterday i did another wc and the three discus i was worried about started to breath normally again. The eruption leopard which is the one i am really concerned about even started breathing normally and he still is now but occasionally slightly closes a gill. So i find that actually a great improvement so far.
I'm thinking of doing another 50% wc today to see if it will help them again even more??
Any advise then please let me know!
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