Hello. i am going to try so explain this as good as i can but i find it hard in english!
I have 4 Saps in a 180L, tank mates are 2 small pleco , 5 Poecilia reticulata and 2 Xiphophorus maculatus, Corydoras julii..
i got home from my work and i feed my fishes, i dident have any time to stop and see how they where eating.
When i got back to se how they are doing my saps where swimming almost up side down! they are behaving like nothing is wrong!
I have started to treat my fishes because the had parasites, in here we cal the sicnes "Whit dot"
what can the problem be? 28C And Ph 7,5
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1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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jbryandavis
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Re: Swiming wrong
White dots are *generally* a sign of Ich.
Read this:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... tal/fwich/
P.S. I'm not sure if its' mentioned or not, but this is *usually* caused by high amounts of stress, and can be a result of transportation, constant water parameter changes, and it is highly contagious.
If you've added any fish recently from a pet store or the local fish store without proper quarantine it *possibly* came from there. Its very important before you add any fish into your tank when you buy them that you quarantine them in a *separate tank* for *no less than 72 hours*, I usually quarantine for 2 weeks just to be sure because of the amount of money put into my plants and aquaculture.
Read this:
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... tal/fwich/
P.S. I'm not sure if its' mentioned or not, but this is *usually* caused by high amounts of stress, and can be a result of transportation, constant water parameter changes, and it is highly contagious.
If you've added any fish recently from a pet store or the local fish store without proper quarantine it *possibly* came from there. Its very important before you add any fish into your tank when you buy them that you quarantine them in a *separate tank* for *no less than 72 hours*, I usually quarantine for 2 weeks just to be sure because of the amount of money put into my plants and aquaculture.
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manutius
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Re: Swiming wrong
please post your other water test results and if possible a few pictures can also help 