Ok. so, new tank just finnished its cycle on thursday morning, so thursday night I introduced 3 corys and 2 chocolate gouramis
One is extremely ill but I can see no visible symptoms.. only indicators that its unhappy.
It hides all the time or is in a location with no water current... it seems to spend half its time at the surface in a corner with no water current or on the gravel "resting" with all its fins well tucked in!!
The amonia and nitrites have risen a TINY bit after introducing the fish (as you'd expect) but nothing i'd call a "spike" nothing that isnt normal....
The ph is set to 7 with a buffer.. the water is quite hard.. but i've been lowering this and ph by doing water changes from the local tap water and replacing with RO and DI water from the LFS.
Out of desperations i've added some Pimafix incase it has some internal bacterial infection going on... its not improving at all...
The 2nd is now starting to look a little unhappy and i'm very sure the first will die.. its REALLY ill.. But I think the first is still saveable, If i could work out what was going on!
There are SLIGHT red markings on the end of their tail fins, but as these are my first chocolate gouramis i'm not sure if thats a bad sign or normal marking..
This photo is of the 2nd fish.. the "healthier" one. Note its starting to droop its tail a little...
the corys are doing GREAT!
One is extremely ill but I can see no visible symptoms.. only indicators that its unhappy.
It hides all the time or is in a location with no water current... it seems to spend half its time at the surface in a corner with no water current or on the gravel "resting" with all its fins well tucked in!!
The amonia and nitrites have risen a TINY bit after introducing the fish (as you'd expect) but nothing i'd call a "spike" nothing that isnt normal....
The ph is set to 7 with a buffer.. the water is quite hard.. but i've been lowering this and ph by doing water changes from the local tap water and replacing with RO and DI water from the LFS.
Out of desperations i've added some Pimafix incase it has some internal bacterial infection going on... its not improving at all...
The 2nd is now starting to look a little unhappy and i'm very sure the first will die.. its REALLY ill.. But I think the first is still saveable, If i could work out what was going on!
There are SLIGHT red markings on the end of their tail fins, but as these are my first chocolate gouramis i'm not sure if thats a bad sign or normal marking..
This photo is of the 2nd fish.. the "healthier" one. Note its starting to droop its tail a little...
the corys are doing GREAT!