Rocket2001
Aquarium Advice Freak
I lost a zebra danio two weeks ago to mouth fungus and treated with Mela fix for a week...then did a 25% water change. All the fish seemed fine. Now two weeks later my male pineapple swordtail is in distress.
All day he had been hiding and breathing very,very heavy. Now he's resting on the bottom continuing to breath very,very heavily. He doesn't show any sign of injury or any other problems. He doesn't look as if he's going to make it. Last water check showed: Alk: 120 pH: 7.8 Nitrite : .5 Nitrate: 20 ppm Ammonia .25 Hardness 75... That was last Sat. and i plan on testing water tommorow at LFS. Keep in mind my tank is still cycling I passed five weeks yesterday.
My first thought is to do an imediate water change of 20%.. I hesitate to do this because the tank isn't fully cycled but I don't have any other ideas. And I don't think the fish has much more time.
any ideas?
All day he had been hiding and breathing very,very heavy. Now he's resting on the bottom continuing to breath very,very heavily. He doesn't show any sign of injury or any other problems. He doesn't look as if he's going to make it. Last water check showed: Alk: 120 pH: 7.8 Nitrite : .5 Nitrate: 20 ppm Ammonia .25 Hardness 75... That was last Sat. and i plan on testing water tommorow at LFS. Keep in mind my tank is still cycling I passed five weeks yesterday.
My first thought is to do an imediate water change of 20%.. I hesitate to do this because the tank isn't fully cycled but I don't have any other ideas. And I don't think the fish has much more time.
any ideas?