I treated my tank yesterday with API PIMAFIX for fungal infection. Today my fish seem sluggish and dopey and my ember tetras are breathing quite rapidly and staying low on the substrate. this is 1/7 daily treatments is this normal ?
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My Nitrite is 0If the fish only started doing this after you added the medication, do a large (over 75%) water change and run some carbon in the filter. And don't add any more. Pimafix contains bay oil, and some fish may be sensitive to it.
As most conditions are caused by poor water quality, I need to check with you -
what are your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels?
how often do you clean the tank?
how much water to you change at each water change?
How bog is the tank (volume and dimensions) and what fish do you have?
one of my corydoras had cottonwool diseaseYou didn't say why you are adding chemicals to your tank ?
More details please. I have not used chemicals so can't advise.
the only thing that goes in my tank is catfish pellets and aquarian tropical flake plus tap conditionerThe first thing (after removing the Pimafix from the water) is to start doing the 56 to 56% water changes every week, and clean the bottom of the tank as well each time - if you have gravel, make sure you push the siphon tube right down into it.
Your nitrate at 40 ppm is too high, it should be kept below 20 ppm. Your level could be either because your tap water has a lot of nitrate ( you can check that easily) or because you have too many fish for 61 litres coupled with water changes being too infrequent.
After the big water change to remove most of the Pimafix, I suggest doing 50% water changes every day for a week. Not only will the fresh water help the fish in general but cleaning the substrate will remove a lot of disease organisms.
All the fish you have are shoaling fish so there should be at least 6 of all the species - and that's a lot of fish for 61 litres/16 gallons. With this amount of fish the water quality can deteriorate very quickly, so weekly water changes are very important.
As Guppy10 asked, besides the Pimafix you've just added, what else do you add to the tank - presumably a water conditioner/dechlorinator, but anything else?
Do you think an undergravel filter would be beneficial?The first thing (after removing the Pimafix from the water) is to start doing the 56 to 56% water changes every week, and clean the bottom of the tank as well each time - if you have gravel, make sure you push the siphon tube right down into it.
Your nitrate at 40 ppm is too high, it should be kept below 20 ppm. Your level could be either because your tap water has a lot of nitrate ( you can check that easily) or because you have too many fish for 61 litres coupled with water changes being too infrequent.
After the big water change to remove most of the Pimafix, I suggest doing 50% water changes every day for a week. Not only will the fresh water help the fish in general but cleaning the substrate will remove a lot of disease organisms.
All the fish you have are shoaling fish so there should be at least 6 of all the species - and that's a lot of fish for 61 litres/16 gallons. With this amount of fish the water quality can deteriorate very quickly, so weekly water changes are very important.
As Guppy10 asked, besides the Pimafix you've just added, what else do you add to the tank - presumably a water conditioner/dechlorinator, but anything else?