Cheese Specialist
Newbie
Hello,
I have this topic in another forum as well...
Forgive me but I am copying and pasting some details from there to save time, making changes as necessary.
The details of the tank are:
Size: 5ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft
Volume: 71UK/84US/323litres
Substrate: Sand and gravel mix (mostly sand)
Ornaments: Lots of bogwood of various sizes, lots of caves
Plants: Java Fern, Java Moss and Large Reg Tiger Lilly
Filtration: 2 Eheim Ecco external filters
Other: Air pump with 4" stone
Parameters:
Levels: ph 7.2, Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Oxygen 8
Occupants:
4 Angel Fish (2 Adult, 2 Baby)
4 Clown Loaches (1x4", 3x2")
4 Kuhli Loaches
4 X-Ray Silver Tipped Tetra
3 Cardinal Tetra
3 Penguin Tetra
3 Siamese Flying Foxes
2 Gourami (1 Kissing, 1 Golden)
2 Upside-down Catfish (1x4", 1x2")
2 Mollies (1 Black, 1 Dalmation)
2 Glass Catfish
2 Platys (1 Orange & 1 Leopard Sailfin)
1 Whiptail Catfish
1 Boesmanni Rainbow
1 Rainbow Shark)
1 Banded Rainbowfish
1 Boesmani Rainbowfish
1 L052 Plec (Butterfly Plec)
1 L134 Plec (Leopard Frog Plec...
and the 2 Kribs, 1 male and 1 female.
His symptoms are rapid breathing, sometimes sitting upright on the sand (as in a pic to follow) and very long see through stringy poo. He has only been with me since Friday and the others are all fine so I expect that he came with this problem, although the seller reports no problems with theirs. He has never been right, I put it down to the stress of the move but now I think it's something more serious.
I have got a hospital tank set up:
Size: 8.5UK/10US
Tempature: 80F
Readings: ph 7.6 , amonia 0, nitrIte 0 - obviously as there are no fish, there is no waste
The ph is quite high just now, but I am just about to remove around half of the water and replace it with water from the big tank which has a ph of 7.2, hopefully that will get it down a bit.
I am also going to salt the tank with 5 teaspoons of aquarium salt and just keep a eye on him. I am not going to feed him for now to help the levels and when I do it will only be a little and what's not eated removed.
Any ideas what it is or how else I can help?
Thanks
Edit: Ph of hospital tank is now 7.3 after adding water from biggest tank.
I have this topic in another forum as well...
Forgive me but I am copying and pasting some details from there to save time, making changes as necessary.
The details of the tank are:
Size: 5ft x 1.5ft x 1.5ft
Volume: 71UK/84US/323litres
Substrate: Sand and gravel mix (mostly sand)
Ornaments: Lots of bogwood of various sizes, lots of caves
Plants: Java Fern, Java Moss and Large Reg Tiger Lilly
Filtration: 2 Eheim Ecco external filters
Other: Air pump with 4" stone
Parameters:
Levels: ph 7.2, Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Oxygen 8
Occupants:
4 Angel Fish (2 Adult, 2 Baby)
4 Clown Loaches (1x4", 3x2")
4 Kuhli Loaches
4 X-Ray Silver Tipped Tetra
3 Cardinal Tetra
3 Penguin Tetra
3 Siamese Flying Foxes
2 Gourami (1 Kissing, 1 Golden)
2 Upside-down Catfish (1x4", 1x2")
2 Mollies (1 Black, 1 Dalmation)
2 Glass Catfish
2 Platys (1 Orange & 1 Leopard Sailfin)
1 Whiptail Catfish
1 Boesmanni Rainbow
1 Rainbow Shark)
1 Banded Rainbowfish
1 Boesmani Rainbowfish
1 L052 Plec (Butterfly Plec)
1 L134 Plec (Leopard Frog Plec...
and the 2 Kribs, 1 male and 1 female.
His symptoms are rapid breathing, sometimes sitting upright on the sand (as in a pic to follow) and very long see through stringy poo. He has only been with me since Friday and the others are all fine so I expect that he came with this problem, although the seller reports no problems with theirs. He has never been right, I put it down to the stress of the move but now I think it's something more serious.
I have got a hospital tank set up:
Size: 8.5UK/10US
Tempature: 80F
Readings: ph 7.6 , amonia 0, nitrIte 0 - obviously as there are no fish, there is no waste
The ph is quite high just now, but I am just about to remove around half of the water and replace it with water from the big tank which has a ph of 7.2, hopefully that will get it down a bit.
I am also going to salt the tank with 5 teaspoons of aquarium salt and just keep a eye on him. I am not going to feed him for now to help the levels and when I do it will only be a little and what's not eated removed.
Any ideas what it is or how else I can help?
Thanks
Edit: Ph of hospital tank is now 7.3 after adding water from biggest tank.
