EmilyontheLake
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Dec 21, 2012
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We have lost 2 platys over the last week - one died last week and one today and there is one other acting sick too. They look stressed, with clamped fins, and mainly lie on the bottom....kinda hiding. Occasionally see them at the top and they eat a little....pretty quiet though.
Only thing that has changed is we moved our weather loach to a different tank because he kept eating the platys tails, a few platy babies have died, and so I've been cleaning the gravel more aggressively again. Oh, and we changed the carbon part of the filter two weeks ago, and the foam part last weekend.
1. Size of tank?
30 G
2. Water parameters
a. Ammonia? 0
b. Nitrite?0
c. Nitrate?20
d. pH, KH and GH? 6.5-7, 0, 40
e. Test kit?
Strips for all but the amonia which was a liquid test
3. Temperature?
78
4. FW (fresh water) or BW (brackish)?
fw
5. How long the aquarium has been set up?
3 months
6. What fish do you have? How many are in your tank? How big are they? How long have you had them?
2 adult platys left (1 m, 1 f), 3 neon tetras, 2 white tetra. 2 lamp eye tetra, 2 balloon mollies, 1 baby platy, 1 siamese algae eater, 1 tracked nerite snail
7. Were the fish placed under quarantine period (minus the first batch from the point wherein the tank is ready to accommodate the inhabitants)?
no
8. a. Any live plants? Fake plants? a bit of duckweed, and a moneywort
b. Sand, gravel, barebottom? gravel
c. Rocks, woods, fancy decors? Any hollow decors? one big rock, a couple clay decorations, a ship and a small castle. The last 2 are hollow
9. a. Filtration? Aquaclear 30,
b. Heater?
yes? dunno what kind....150W
10. a. Lighting schedule? What lights are used? LED hood, on daylight mode around 8-9am, on night/moonlight mode around 9pm.
b. Any sunlight exposure? How long?
bright room but no direct sun.
11. a. Water change schedule? every sunday
b. Volume of water changed? 25%
c. Well water, tap water, RO water? lake water, filtered but no chlorine
d. Water conditioner used? no
e. Frequency of gravel/sand (if any) vacuumed? 1/3 of tank each water change
12. Foods? tropical granules every evening, a small pinch of fry food in the am, 1/2 an algae wafer every other day
How often are they fed?
13. a. Any abnormal signs/symptoms? fins clamped, lying still on bottom/hiding
b. Appearance of poop? normal
c. Appearance of gills? normal
14. a. Have you treated your fish ahead of diagnosis? no
b. What meds were used?
15. Insert photos of fish in question and full tank shot if necessary.
Only thing that has changed is we moved our weather loach to a different tank because he kept eating the platys tails, a few platy babies have died, and so I've been cleaning the gravel more aggressively again. Oh, and we changed the carbon part of the filter two weeks ago, and the foam part last weekend.
1. Size of tank?
30 G
2. Water parameters
a. Ammonia? 0
b. Nitrite?0
c. Nitrate?20
d. pH, KH and GH? 6.5-7, 0, 40
e. Test kit?
Strips for all but the amonia which was a liquid test
3. Temperature?
78
4. FW (fresh water) or BW (brackish)?
fw
5. How long the aquarium has been set up?
3 months
6. What fish do you have? How many are in your tank? How big are they? How long have you had them?
2 adult platys left (1 m, 1 f), 3 neon tetras, 2 white tetra. 2 lamp eye tetra, 2 balloon mollies, 1 baby platy, 1 siamese algae eater, 1 tracked nerite snail
7. Were the fish placed under quarantine period (minus the first batch from the point wherein the tank is ready to accommodate the inhabitants)?
no
8. a. Any live plants? Fake plants? a bit of duckweed, and a moneywort
b. Sand, gravel, barebottom? gravel
c. Rocks, woods, fancy decors? Any hollow decors? one big rock, a couple clay decorations, a ship and a small castle. The last 2 are hollow
9. a. Filtration? Aquaclear 30,
b. Heater?
yes? dunno what kind....150W
10. a. Lighting schedule? What lights are used? LED hood, on daylight mode around 8-9am, on night/moonlight mode around 9pm.
b. Any sunlight exposure? How long?
bright room but no direct sun.
11. a. Water change schedule? every sunday
b. Volume of water changed? 25%
c. Well water, tap water, RO water? lake water, filtered but no chlorine
d. Water conditioner used? no
e. Frequency of gravel/sand (if any) vacuumed? 1/3 of tank each water change
12. Foods? tropical granules every evening, a small pinch of fry food in the am, 1/2 an algae wafer every other day
How often are they fed?
13. a. Any abnormal signs/symptoms? fins clamped, lying still on bottom/hiding
b. Appearance of poop? normal
c. Appearance of gills? normal
14. a. Have you treated your fish ahead of diagnosis? no
b. What meds were used?
15. Insert photos of fish in question and full tank shot if necessary.