Libby1
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
What was and what is is not necessarily the same. As I've said before, when you have a poisoning, EVERYTHING changes. Poisoning effects the body, the brain, the entire body so you might as well forget about what used to be because there is no guarantee that what is now will be the same as before. Sick fish don't usually eat. Yours are eating so this is not a sickness. If the fish was constipated and eating, the bump would be getting bigger. You said it's not getting bigger so it's pretty safe to say that's not the issue. You can stop with the epsom salts. It will get diluted with every water change until it's no longer present. No need to get it all out at one time as you would with other medications.
Hi, so I did a 30% water change today; didn't check my nitrates.. I'll try to check it soon to see where it's at. Yes, my silver dollars eat the parsley leaves. The female (with the bump) also comes to eat, thank G-d. Like I mentioned, not as much, but she eats. As for her bump (and whether it's constipation), it's hard to tell whether it's growing or not. It definitely didn't go down. All I know is, it's huge and it was pretty huge when I first started discussing it with you, I'm just not sure whether it has grown. It's possible it did, but how can I really know...?? The point is, she is swimming around properly (like I mentioned, not as continuously active as she was back in the day but you said things change so perhaps that's one of the changes, or let's take into consideration she's carrying a bump sadly ... so maybe it's expected) but she's looking fine otherwise, her fins are fine, she's not hovering in any corners or anything like that. When I turn on the light in the room (I don't even turn on their overhead light) to do a water change they all get spooked and then go to the corner.. the second I turn off the light, she's swimming around and so are the others. Weirdos! Lol. But those are good signs I assume?