Thought I'd come here just in case. My "little bumble bee" is buzzing around the tank this morn. The right gill isn't better but I don't think it's worse.
In the past when I had FW fish there were a few times their gills got red and irritated looking. I dosed the tank with melafix and they were as good as new in a few days. I never knew what the problem was. Should I perhaps try this with Harry? It wouldn't hurt, right? I would feel better doing that than using any other meds.
Thanks guys...
Red flared gill
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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.
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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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Re: Red flared gill
melafix will definitely help...
what are your parameters? Any problems with them?
what are your parameters? Any problems with them?
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Re: Red flared gill
Thank you! I am sorry I forgot and didn't give you the info. I imagine that must get so irritating for you guys to keep having to ask us those same questions over and over again.
It was Tues that I noticed his left gill was a bit flared and red. I left it alone and just watched him.
On Wed I noticed the left gill was fine and then the right gill was flared and red. It had been 5days since the last water change. This was also the longest I had gone between changes. It was then that I checked the water. Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate was between 10-20, SG 1.008. I also did ph and it had gone from the usual 8.2 down to about 7.6. I then did a water change and checked nitrates and ph the next day/ yesterday. Nitrates were back down to 10 and ph was 8.0. The ph test is only about a mth old.
Last week I had taken an old piece of wood out of the tank. The wood was melting so to speak. I added about 5lbs of Coral , a few more sea shells and a bubble wand along with about 5 new plastic plants. I only have plastic and silk plants. I have a biowheel for a 50 gal that has been running for probably 10yrs. My tank is 30gal. I have gravel substrate which I'd like to change sometime soon but not until Harry's gill looks better and I plan on waiting for possibly a week or two beyond that just to be safe. Last night I unplugged the bubble wand because there were so many bubbles in there. Thought it might be stressing him even though it's not his fav side of the tank.
Other than the gill he still looks great, is eating well and buzzing around the tank. The gill doesn't look better or worse today. He's all alone in there. I haven't checked his water today but I did go grocery shopping for him.
What's really bizzare is that the F8's that I got from a different store did the same thing but their gills declined quickly. I figured I'd had a ph spike from using RO and tap water. I cleaned the heck out of that tank after those babies died. I'm puzzled.
I'm really fatigued today so I'm sorry if this post is a mess. I tried to proof read but sometimes that doesn't work.
Thank You, Beth
It was Tues that I noticed his left gill was a bit flared and red. I left it alone and just watched him.
On Wed I noticed the left gill was fine and then the right gill was flared and red. It had been 5days since the last water change. This was also the longest I had gone between changes. It was then that I checked the water. Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate was between 10-20, SG 1.008. I also did ph and it had gone from the usual 8.2 down to about 7.6. I then did a water change and checked nitrates and ph the next day/ yesterday. Nitrates were back down to 10 and ph was 8.0. The ph test is only about a mth old.
Last week I had taken an old piece of wood out of the tank. The wood was melting so to speak. I added about 5lbs of Coral , a few more sea shells and a bubble wand along with about 5 new plastic plants. I only have plastic and silk plants. I have a biowheel for a 50 gal that has been running for probably 10yrs. My tank is 30gal. I have gravel substrate which I'd like to change sometime soon but not until Harry's gill looks better and I plan on waiting for possibly a week or two beyond that just to be safe. Last night I unplugged the bubble wand because there were so many bubbles in there. Thought it might be stressing him even though it's not his fav side of the tank.
Other than the gill he still looks great, is eating well and buzzing around the tank. The gill doesn't look better or worse today. He's all alone in there. I haven't checked his water today but I did go grocery shopping for him.
What's really bizzare is that the F8's that I got from a different store did the same thing but their gills declined quickly. I figured I'd had a ph spike from using RO and tap water. I cleaned the heck out of that tank after those babies died. I'm puzzled.
I'm really fatigued today so I'm sorry if this post is a mess. I tried to proof read but sometimes that doesn't work.
Thank You, Beth
t1gerbee wrote:melafix will definitely help...
what are your parameters? Any problems with them?