Fishfinder1973
Fishaholic
Ok I’m at a loss here,and to be frank about it,seriously annoyed.
Sometimes it’s best to leave things as is.I documented the change I did to the tank in the photos and videos section under 109g planted tank.
I added an extra filter with biohome media,but I won’t go into all that as it’s there to be read in the forum section I mentioned above.
The following day and the water was cloudy,which I put down to the bio balls I added to the filter,so I left it another day before doing a 50% water change.As soon as I did this the fish began flashing and rubbing against the substrate.A few of each species were doing this and I knew something was wrong.I did another water change the following day,and after I refilled with water I spotted that old familiar sugar grain marks on the pentazona barbs.I dosed esha 2000 for three days and performed water changes,and the flashing and rubbing calmed down quite a lot,and there were a lot less sugar grains on the barbs.
Tonight,after being away for a day I came home and found my sultan plec was dead(absolutely raging)to say the least.I had noticed it had been hanging around the top of the tank.Thanks to this behaviour coinciding with the change I made to the tank,I didn’t think anything of it,just that it had less hiding places and it had finally decided to show face.The fish are still flashing on the bottom and my zebra plec is near the filter outlet at the top of the tank,not a good sign.
I added a couple of plants about a fortnight ago and I’m wondering about them having carried something into my tank.I had thoroughly washed them,but who knows.
When I lifted the sultan plec out of the water it seemed to have a lot of mucus on its skin,wether this is normal I don’t know,though I do know fish do have a slime coat.The plants have now been removed and binned,just in case,but I fear the worst for the zebra.The snowball plec “seems”to be ok.
I am awaiting the arrival of ich x in the post.I did turn the temperature up,but with my corydoras I don’t want to turn it up too high.
Too add to this,I don’t think the hornwort liked the Temperature rise or the esha 2000,as a couple of days after this,the plant shed every needle,almost blocking both filter outlets and basically everywhere in the tank.I had to take everything out and clean top to bottom.A bad few days to say the least.
Sometimes it’s best to leave things as is.I documented the change I did to the tank in the photos and videos section under 109g planted tank.
I added an extra filter with biohome media,but I won’t go into all that as it’s there to be read in the forum section I mentioned above.
The following day and the water was cloudy,which I put down to the bio balls I added to the filter,so I left it another day before doing a 50% water change.As soon as I did this the fish began flashing and rubbing against the substrate.A few of each species were doing this and I knew something was wrong.I did another water change the following day,and after I refilled with water I spotted that old familiar sugar grain marks on the pentazona barbs.I dosed esha 2000 for three days and performed water changes,and the flashing and rubbing calmed down quite a lot,and there were a lot less sugar grains on the barbs.
Tonight,after being away for a day I came home and found my sultan plec was dead(absolutely raging)to say the least.I had noticed it had been hanging around the top of the tank.Thanks to this behaviour coinciding with the change I made to the tank,I didn’t think anything of it,just that it had less hiding places and it had finally decided to show face.The fish are still flashing on the bottom and my zebra plec is near the filter outlet at the top of the tank,not a good sign.
I added a couple of plants about a fortnight ago and I’m wondering about them having carried something into my tank.I had thoroughly washed them,but who knows.
When I lifted the sultan plec out of the water it seemed to have a lot of mucus on its skin,wether this is normal I don’t know,though I do know fish do have a slime coat.The plants have now been removed and binned,just in case,but I fear the worst for the zebra.The snowball plec “seems”to be ok.
I am awaiting the arrival of ich x in the post.I did turn the temperature up,but with my corydoras I don’t want to turn it up too high.
Too add to this,I don’t think the hornwort liked the Temperature rise or the esha 2000,as a couple of days after this,the plant shed every needle,almost blocking both filter outlets and basically everywhere in the tank.I had to take everything out and clean top to bottom.A bad few days to say the least.
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