Hello all,
My first post in the attempt to seek assistance with diagnosing my Ceylon or Green or any of the other names apparent to my new friend Finlay.
Symptoms
Finlay is cruising the bottom of the tank hitting anything that gets in his way (almost as though blind)
His or her color on his back has darkened
Scuse me rear end dilated to about 1mm
He is 1.5 in long
I have had him for about 1 week and it is not a new tank set up just a changed one i am currently doing as told by my LFS and adding salt slowly over the next couple of weeks until i reach 0.25-0.30 currently stands at 0.11.
No tank mates
New water in 3 days ago (the usual de chlorine) Filter good (4months running).
Any suggestions more than welcome.
Many thanks
Gary
Food Prawn in shell and blood worm.
Help needed for Finlay the Topaz Has he gone blind?
Forum rules
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.
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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So sorry... It would be a good idea to try & find out what happehed to your fella. Read the 1st post in this forum & try to asnwer as much as you can.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
Thanks for your sympathy's
I didn't have him long but i am quite amazed at how quickly you get attached to these fish.
I am glad it was quick really (If at all)
It was my first Topaz.
It wont be my last.
The only thing i can think of is adding too much salt too quickly.
I was using Doc wellfishes aquarium salt as prescribed by LFS though.
I have 0 NH3/NH=+4
0 N0 2
5 N0 3
7.5 ph
11 TDS salts
Many Thanks
Gary
I didn't have him long but i am quite amazed at how quickly you get attached to these fish.
I am glad it was quick really (If at all)
It was my first Topaz.
It wont be my last.
The only thing i can think of is adding too much salt too quickly.
I was using Doc wellfishes aquarium salt as prescribed by LFS though.
I have 0 NH3/NH=+4
0 N0 2
5 N0 3
7.5 ph
11 TDS salts
Many Thanks
Gary