Any advice greatly received, my daughter has set up her own 125 litre tank. She fishless cycled it, it now has 6 leopard danios and 5 zebra danios which were put in over a month ago, they are happy. Over a week later she got 6 cherry barbs and 6 green neon raspboras. The raspboras are happy shoaling with the danios.
One of those original cherry barbs has since disappeared mysteriously, she then decided to get some more to make a bigger group, they have been in since last Saturday. Two of this new group are very unhappy I think, they hide behind the filter and spend most of their time near the top of the water, one especially has lots of very fine almost silvery threadlike poos. When they do swim around it's almost seems like they are a bit lopsided.
They are fed tropical flakes and once a week they get a bit of frozen food.
Water parameters are
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 20
Ph is around 7.2
We hovered and did about a 40% water change yesterday temp is 23C
I know that cherry barbs can be a little shy but the others in the group are merrily dashing about, rooting around in the gravel and doing all the fishy things.
These 2 don't seem interested in food, when the lid opens the whole tank goes mad except for these 2
Does anyone have any thoughts? My 10 year old has paid for all this, tank equipment and fish from her own savings and she is very worried.
Many thanks
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One of those original cherry barbs has since disappeared mysteriously, she then decided to get some more to make a bigger group, they have been in since last Saturday. Two of this new group are very unhappy I think, they hide behind the filter and spend most of their time near the top of the water, one especially has lots of very fine almost silvery threadlike poos. When they do swim around it's almost seems like they are a bit lopsided.
They are fed tropical flakes and once a week they get a bit of frozen food.
Water parameters are
Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 20
Ph is around 7.2
We hovered and did about a 40% water change yesterday temp is 23C
I know that cherry barbs can be a little shy but the others in the group are merrily dashing about, rooting around in the gravel and doing all the fishy things.
These 2 don't seem interested in food, when the lid opens the whole tank goes mad except for these 2
Does anyone have any thoughts? My 10 year old has paid for all this, tank equipment and fish from her own savings and she is very worried.
Many thanks
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