QT TANK
Was going to move Golden Melon to big tank bc was eating well and being more aggressive to the companion sighted Coral Albino. But then way white stringy poop from the Golden Melon. No evidence of bacterial infx and the sores on the side were successfully eliminated by Baytril and the secondary fungal infx eliminated by salt and Rid Ich.
Stringy poop examined and saw 1 fluke like parasite and the tumbling egg-shaped parasites but not much else. Specifically did not see capillaria eggs.
I had treated the big tank recently with Levmisole and all those fish are now eating well. So I am treating the QT tank with Levmisole also. Perhaps I should add them all back to main tank and treat the bunch again and perhaps I will, bc I need to treat the main tank again as it needs to be repeated q 3 weeks.
Both tanks maintained at pH 6.0 and the bio filters work at that pH. At pH 4.0 the bio filters are knocked out.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
2013-8-7 Disease update
Main tank has recovered well. May need to repeat Levmisole next week to keep the cycle of parasites from repeating with newly hatched eggs.
The small flamingo red discus is eating again but will not eat with the other fish. It acts traumatized, probably by all the housekeeping I have to do with the tank.
The 1/2 blind coral has remated with the same blue fish as before indicating health.
I have tried to increase Excel to cut down on hair algae and it looks successful.
I dropped the pH in the main tank to 6.0 with phosphoric acid and CO2. This is for disease prevention effects. No problem with increased ammonia.
QT tank: The large Golden Melon looks to have recovered with 2 injx of Baytril 0.1cc IM QOD X 2. Developed white spots c/w fungus. Skin scraping showed nothing else but apparent fungal hyphae, though I have trouble discerning the diff bn fungal hyphae and algae strands bc the strands look green sometime to me.
For this I increased temp to 88F and added salt at 1 tbsp./5gal and added Rid-Ich Plus which is combo of formalin and malachite green. Dosed q-12-24hrs. After 2-3 days the spots have appeared to resolve. The fish is not eating great but eating some.
The other coral albino that is not blind has been in the tank for 10 days or so for what looked like wasting disease. He had withdrawn and stopped eating for a week before QT with no external signs of disease. For this I dropped the pH gradually to 5.0. I will go ahead and drop it further to 4.0 per Jack Wattley since it doesn't look like I'll have to QT more fish at this time. He is eating enough to appear status quo in weight but clearly needs to gain.
Need to replace bulb in UV light. Also I treated the main tank for cyanobacteria again this week with Chemiclean.
I ideally should do twice weekly water changes but clearly that is not practical at this time.
Crypts and Java fern grow well with added nitrogen. Red plant needs further tweaking to grow faster to outpace the hair algae/algae on the leaves.
The small flamingo red discus is eating again but will not eat with the other fish. It acts traumatized, probably by all the housekeeping I have to do with the tank.
The 1/2 blind coral has remated with the same blue fish as before indicating health.
I have tried to increase Excel to cut down on hair algae and it looks successful.
I dropped the pH in the main tank to 6.0 with phosphoric acid and CO2. This is for disease prevention effects. No problem with increased ammonia.
QT tank: The large Golden Melon looks to have recovered with 2 injx of Baytril 0.1cc IM QOD X 2. Developed white spots c/w fungus. Skin scraping showed nothing else but apparent fungal hyphae, though I have trouble discerning the diff bn fungal hyphae and algae strands bc the strands look green sometime to me.
For this I increased temp to 88F and added salt at 1 tbsp./5gal and added Rid-Ich Plus which is combo of formalin and malachite green. Dosed q-12-24hrs. After 2-3 days the spots have appeared to resolve. The fish is not eating great but eating some.
The other coral albino that is not blind has been in the tank for 10 days or so for what looked like wasting disease. He had withdrawn and stopped eating for a week before QT with no external signs of disease. For this I dropped the pH gradually to 5.0. I will go ahead and drop it further to 4.0 per Jack Wattley since it doesn't look like I'll have to QT more fish at this time. He is eating enough to appear status quo in weight but clearly needs to gain.
Need to replace bulb in UV light. Also I treated the main tank for cyanobacteria again this week with Chemiclean.
I ideally should do twice weekly water changes but clearly that is not practical at this time.
Crypts and Java fern grow well with added nitrogen. Red plant needs further tweaking to grow faster to outpace the hair algae/algae on the leaves.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
2013-7-23 disease update
clearly have pathogen in planted tank. QT new fish 5 weeks and after introduction now 2 maybe 3 fish with the wasting disease sx. One cured with Jack Wattley's pH lowering technique in QT tank but probably won't work in planted tank. So added levimisole 5g yesterday. Fish have all become lethargic and uninterested infood but not overtly in distress. Read levimasole can cause this. Will continue in hopes of finding a solution. I suspect parasites given absence of external disease and little resp distress. Sx withdrawal, lethargy, reduced/no appetite.
pH lowered to 6.
Nitrates <25. No ammonia nor nitrite.
May have to move all discus to QT tank but that won't remove pathogen from main tank.
http://www.bassleer.com/?cl=en
May look into this for more help.
pH lowered to 6.
Nitrates <25. No ammonia nor nitrite.
May have to move all discus to QT tank but that won't remove pathogen from main tank.
http://www.bassleer.com/?cl=en
May look into this for more help.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
2013-7-7
Tap water GH 60ppm
Tap water KH 60ppm.
50% water changes weekly.
Aqua water parameters
NH3 high. no nitrite. 25 nitrate.
I may need to thin plants more. Suspect that it's harboring bacteria.
GH & KH not much different than tap.
See new discus pix in tank. Just back from vacation today with them one week in tank.
Golden Melon recurrence of raised lesions along lateral line and at tail along back bone line.
Pretty snakeskin has the discus wasting disease I'm afraid got him to eat today with a little pancure in brine shrimp. Not hardy appetite but ate.
Tap water KH 60ppm.
50% water changes weekly.
Aqua water parameters
NH3 high. no nitrite. 25 nitrate.
I may need to thin plants more. Suspect that it's harboring bacteria.
GH & KH not much different than tap.
See new discus pix in tank. Just back from vacation today with them one week in tank.
Golden Melon recurrence of raised lesions along lateral line and at tail along back bone line.
Pretty snakeskin has the discus wasting disease I'm afraid got him to eat today with a little pancure in brine shrimp. Not hardy appetite but ate.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
2013-6-11
After these 5-6 years I FINALLY figured out that the reason I have been disappointed int he plant growth in the 90 gallon aquarium is because I wasn't adding enough nitrogen! I assumed that Flourish COMPREHENSIVE was indeed comprehensive! It is not! It does not contain enough nitrogen for the aquarium. I added Stump Remover and IMMEDIATELY the plants greened up and the java ferns started growing! I had given up on java ferns. This is the reason the swords never grew in this aquarium. I had replaced them with cyrpts which are also gorowing well now.
After these 5-6 years I FINALLY figured out that the reason I have been disappointed int he plant growth in the 90 gallon aquarium is because I wasn't adding enough nitrogen! I assumed that Flourish COMPREHENSIVE was indeed comprehensive! It is not! It does not contain enough nitrogen for the aquarium. I added Stump Remover and IMMEDIATELY the plants greened up and the java ferns started growing! I had given up on java ferns. This is the reason the swords never grew in this aquarium. I had replaced them with cyrpts which are also gorowing well now.
2013-6-11
Received 4 fish from Kenny on 5/21/13. Golden melon looked a little stressed as he was the biggest and less water and air left in his bag than the others. Plus he had tail burns that the others didn't have.
Red larg (golden melon) discus listing to side, pectoral fins flailing resp rate 104 at temp 84F. Likely dx, constipation. Administered 1 ½ tbsp/10 gallons of Epsom salt at 1pm. His resp rate normalized by 3 hours and he ate some brine shrimp. doesn't seem to like bloodworms? This is odd.
Red larg (golden melon) discus listing to side, pectoral fins flailing resp rate 104 at temp 84F. Likely dx, constipation. Administered 1 ½ tbsp/10 gallons of Epsom salt at 1pm. His resp rate normalized by 3 hours and he ate some brine shrimp. doesn't seem to like bloodworms? This is odd.
He has not eaten well since I got him.
Others are eating well. Initial superficial fin infections have
cleared with Maracyn 2 (minocycline) over 5 days. Then did 65% water
change.
Today, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite all OK. this is the third time since the new arrivals that the old coral 1/2 blind albino discus and the new carnation snakeskin have mated and laid eggs on the intake of the filter or the top of the heater.
I read that new additions might be treated with Prazi as a preventative, so I added Prazipro a few days ago. I still suspect that parasites might be infecting the discus even the albino in the main tank, bc his growth rate is slow and he apprears underweight. Hve feeded the new fish with flakes also and they are eating the flakes. The older discus are too picky to eat flakes.
Today, ammonia, nitrate, nitrite all OK. this is the third time since the new arrivals that the old coral 1/2 blind albino discus and the new carnation snakeskin have mated and laid eggs on the intake of the filter or the top of the heater.
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