IHaveAquariums
Aquarium Advice Freak
I go to a Lfs less then a mile away from my house because they have decent fish and some seem to breed with pure luck there for example there were 2 firemouth Cichlids w a pleco in one of the for sale tanks and they somehow spawned and had a lot of fry. Anyways, I get a GBR, bring it home, acclimate and add to my 20g long. It's planted and parameters tested perfect. He got shimmy, he stayed in one place moving his fins really fast and his breathing was very labored, definitely sick. I let him be for an hour, still like it, wasn't just new tank shock or anything. moved him to another tank with a slightly lowered pH (I have water with a pH of about 8) Same thing. I take him back to the store where the employee was convinced I don't use water conditioner and was saying I was on well water because the water I brought him back in was tinted due to peat and driftwood. (They also try to talk down to me which gets quite frustrating because I can assure you I know more about fish than they do, it's just some random people hired) they let me return him and they added him back and he was immediately fine. No signs of anything. However, even being a mile away, we're on different water suppliers but they come from the same source and the water quality reports have near identical records. Any idea why the GBR acted this way? 0ppm ammonia/nitrite and 0ppm nitrate (I have plants and keep up on water changes) with pH around 8 and a temp of 82°