hello all, I am a new poster here but have been popping in for a while seeking info for various things on my fairy young journey into fishkeeping.
Tl;dr:
one dwarf gourami has reduced his activity to sitting in a corner and looking like he’s fatigued and trying to lay down, and coming up for air, and then the cycle repeats. He had a gimpy looking pectoral fin that he wouldn’t use and has been hiding recently. I’ve doses with several things and his fin is much better now but I can tell he’s been picked on by his tail fin and he’s just not acting right. Water parameters by visualizing strips are fine and no one else is acting this way, though I’m convinced an ember dwarf gourami has something up with a tail fin that I’m also hoping will clear up—he doesn’t seem to mind.
I have a 65 gal aquarium that is fairly new, upgraded from a 20 gal recently. I had 2 ember dwarf gouramis and 2 powder blue dwarfs in the previous aquarium, along with some cories, that got to come along into the new tank and it looks great, water has seemed good (tested and all parameters safe to my knowledge) and I condition all water that goes into the tank. I used a bacteria booster to cycle the tank before adding anybody to it, I know that may not be the most preferred method. Water temp has been 78 but I bumped it up to 80 this am. Good filtration and lots of little bubbles from this tell me they get good oxygenation, but I’m considering adding a bubble stone too. I noticed last night an ember gourami (I may be butchering the name) has some ragged ends to his tail fin and a couple of white dots. Thought ich so I gave them the proper dose of jungle ich clear after conditioning with the correct amount of jungle start right. I also noticed a powder blue dwarf had a pectoral fin stuck to his body and he would hide frequently/be nipped at, so I watched to see if it would help this too.
This morning, the ember looks no different, although I understand it may take some time. The powder blue looks like he is trying to die. He keeps hanging out in a corner on the gravel like he’s trying to lay, and he comes up for air, then goes back down, etc. he struggles a little when he goes up despite his fin being mobile again, and doesn’t seem interested in doing anything else and just goes back to loaf around on the substrate. I also have a small school of skirt tetra, some Cory’s, and some snails, and everyone else has seemed fine. Today I bumped up the temp, gave them some aquarium salt and the correct amount of Melafix. Maybe that’s overkill but I don’t know what else to do.
Does anyone have advice? I’m very new to this and don’t want to lose my fish if I can help it. I know that may be part of learning but if I can intervene, I will. I will put some pics up of the sick ones.
Thanks
Tl;dr:
one dwarf gourami has reduced his activity to sitting in a corner and looking like he’s fatigued and trying to lay down, and coming up for air, and then the cycle repeats. He had a gimpy looking pectoral fin that he wouldn’t use and has been hiding recently. I’ve doses with several things and his fin is much better now but I can tell he’s been picked on by his tail fin and he’s just not acting right. Water parameters by visualizing strips are fine and no one else is acting this way, though I’m convinced an ember dwarf gourami has something up with a tail fin that I’m also hoping will clear up—he doesn’t seem to mind.
I have a 65 gal aquarium that is fairly new, upgraded from a 20 gal recently. I had 2 ember dwarf gouramis and 2 powder blue dwarfs in the previous aquarium, along with some cories, that got to come along into the new tank and it looks great, water has seemed good (tested and all parameters safe to my knowledge) and I condition all water that goes into the tank. I used a bacteria booster to cycle the tank before adding anybody to it, I know that may not be the most preferred method. Water temp has been 78 but I bumped it up to 80 this am. Good filtration and lots of little bubbles from this tell me they get good oxygenation, but I’m considering adding a bubble stone too. I noticed last night an ember gourami (I may be butchering the name) has some ragged ends to his tail fin and a couple of white dots. Thought ich so I gave them the proper dose of jungle ich clear after conditioning with the correct amount of jungle start right. I also noticed a powder blue dwarf had a pectoral fin stuck to his body and he would hide frequently/be nipped at, so I watched to see if it would help this too.
This morning, the ember looks no different, although I understand it may take some time. The powder blue looks like he is trying to die. He keeps hanging out in a corner on the gravel like he’s trying to lay, and he comes up for air, then goes back down, etc. he struggles a little when he goes up despite his fin being mobile again, and doesn’t seem interested in doing anything else and just goes back to loaf around on the substrate. I also have a small school of skirt tetra, some Cory’s, and some snails, and everyone else has seemed fine. Today I bumped up the temp, gave them some aquarium salt and the correct amount of Melafix. Maybe that’s overkill but I don’t know what else to do.
Does anyone have advice? I’m very new to this and don’t want to lose my fish if I can help it. I know that may be part of learning but if I can intervene, I will. I will put some pics up of the sick ones.
Thanks
