tetrin
Aquarium Advice FINatic
i recently upgraded from a 10g to a 55g on 21st of this month and am facing some problems ...
the tank is medium planted (quarter of the plants from the 10g)...current residents are -
1. from the 10g -
3 rosy barbs (1 currently in qt with fin rot)
2 black tetras
1 betta
1 SAE
1 CAE
2. newly added -
3 rosy barbs (1 currently in qt with frayed fins, bought it that way...extremely stupid not to notice :x )
3 gold gouramis
2 pearl gouramis
since i used all the gravel and the aquaclear filter from the established 10g (2 months), i went ahead and thought that cycling would take a lot less time than usual...but i guess there's a long learning curve...
i don't have a ammonia test kit...but the rest of the parameters are as follows...
nitrite 0.2 ,
nitrate 40,
Gh 300,
Kh 180,
ph 7.8 (has been on the high side from the beginning)
now the problems -
1.one gold gourami and a tetra are flashing their gills against plants or rocks, nothing visible on the body...i am guessing it the onset of ich or any other parasite in the gills...
2.one rosy barb is kind of bloated and not moving much...scales are not sticking out yet...but i think its tending towards dropsy...
3.currently i have the qt full with 2 rosy barbs with fin damage and treating them with melafix
i have done a 10% water change today but i don't see any symptoms of ammonia or nitrite poisoning...all the fish are eating hungrily...
i need some suggestions on how to deal with sick fish...in the two months i have been in this hobby, i have lost 7 fish...a few to gross ignorance and a few died despite my best efforts...it really breaks my heart to see them pass away...
so any help would readily be appreciated...
the tank is medium planted (quarter of the plants from the 10g)...current residents are -
1. from the 10g -
3 rosy barbs (1 currently in qt with fin rot)
2 black tetras
1 betta
1 SAE
1 CAE
2. newly added -
3 rosy barbs (1 currently in qt with frayed fins, bought it that way...extremely stupid not to notice :x )
3 gold gouramis
2 pearl gouramis
since i used all the gravel and the aquaclear filter from the established 10g (2 months), i went ahead and thought that cycling would take a lot less time than usual...but i guess there's a long learning curve...
i don't have a ammonia test kit...but the rest of the parameters are as follows...
nitrite 0.2 ,
nitrate 40,
Gh 300,
Kh 180,
ph 7.8 (has been on the high side from the beginning)
now the problems -
1.one gold gourami and a tetra are flashing their gills against plants or rocks, nothing visible on the body...i am guessing it the onset of ich or any other parasite in the gills...
2.one rosy barb is kind of bloated and not moving much...scales are not sticking out yet...but i think its tending towards dropsy...
3.currently i have the qt full with 2 rosy barbs with fin damage and treating them with melafix
i have done a 10% water change today but i don't see any symptoms of ammonia or nitrite poisoning...all the fish are eating hungrily...
i need some suggestions on how to deal with sick fish...in the two months i have been in this hobby, i have lost 7 fish...a few to gross ignorance and a few died despite my best efforts...it really breaks my heart to see them pass away...
so any help would readily be appreciated...