Hello all, this is my first post here. My pleco seems to have developed some fungus on him. He's in a tank with another pleco and 5 cichlids. The other fish look perfectly fine. I just put this one I to a 30g quarantine tank to avoid any contamination. I have the water set to 78 in my display tank (55g bow front). And set the temp to 80 in the 30g quarantine tank. I read that a higher temp can stimulate the immune system. See photos for water quality I think everything looks good. Just did a filter cleaning with a 30% water change after I quarantined the pleco. Water was a little higher in nitrates and oh. But not much.
About 10 days ago my water temp dropped because my fluval 300w heater with the digital temp failed to hold the temp. Amazon sent me a new one and that one too failed to hold the temp so I put the two in the tank and it was able to hold the temp to 78. Water temp went down to 69.4. I now have a 300W Eheim that is the size of the two fluval 300w heaters combined. And it's working perfectly. I also got a digital temp reader to make sure all is good. Filter is an Eheim classic 250.
Any advice to save this guy would be much appreciated.
Tank is temporarily in garage so it gets down to about 62 at night and about 85 to 90 during the day but I have a large fan blowing on the tank during the day so for the water temp ranges from 78.8 at night to about 81.9 during the day. I also have large frozen cooling packs to use if it goes higher then 82 that bring the water down 2 degrees but I don't like using them because it does it in about 20 minutes and I feel like that could shock the fish. I have been putting my canister filter in a large container with the ice packs and that seems to work much better to keep the tank cool without a huge change in temp.
About 10 days ago my water temp dropped because my fluval 300w heater with the digital temp failed to hold the temp. Amazon sent me a new one and that one too failed to hold the temp so I put the two in the tank and it was able to hold the temp to 78. Water temp went down to 69.4. I now have a 300W Eheim that is the size of the two fluval 300w heaters combined. And it's working perfectly. I also got a digital temp reader to make sure all is good. Filter is an Eheim classic 250.
Any advice to save this guy would be much appreciated.
Tank is temporarily in garage so it gets down to about 62 at night and about 85 to 90 during the day but I have a large fan blowing on the tank during the day so for the water temp ranges from 78.8 at night to about 81.9 during the day. I also have large frozen cooling packs to use if it goes higher then 82 that bring the water down 2 degrees but I don't like using them because it does it in about 20 minutes and I feel like that could shock the fish. I have been putting my canister filter in a large container with the ice packs and that seems to work much better to keep the tank cool without a huge change in temp.