My goby and fire fish have sadly passed with in the same hour, I have 2 clowns left, they were move to a 5 gallon bucket with heater and air stone filter.
Roughly 4 weeks ago all my fish came down with one of the following, ich, internal paricite, or internal bacteria infection. I was so helpless I treated with, metroplex, prazipro, and ich-x all treated in a bucket.
I knew ich needed a 6 week fishless period to be removed from the dt, I move my fish to a ten gallon tank because it was bigger that the bucket. the fish fish was getting builied and losing fins, I figured it wasn't going to make it and out it in the dt as a test. A week later he had all his fins back and was eating again.
I waited a few more days and put the other fish back in, that were all eating and doing much better before. Till Friday one clown had lethargic breathing again and lying on the sand bed. So I added metroplex in it's food. Not much changed till yesterday, a storm hit knocking out the power for 9 hours, I wrapped the tank in blankets keeping the temperature up, next was the water movement, I continuously agitated the water surface and pushed water around. It wasn't till 4:00 in the morning and the power came back on and I could go to bed.
As of today because I got hardly any sleep I slept in, I have been awake for a few hours and noticed the fire fish and goby both started acting weird. The fire fish would just scoot around the sand bed and breath heavy
bed, and the Goby would swim through the water trying to jump out of the tank and breath heavy. Well I definitely knew something was wrong I started doing much research, still no conclusion. I had tested my ammonia which was 0ppm, nitrates 5ppm, salinity 1.025, and pH 8.24.
Now currently feeling very guilty and upset for sleeping in, and have just moved my two remaining clowns into a bucket as said above. I have looked at both the bodies of the goby and firefish, there was nothing visibly wrong, the only thing I could tell that was in common was the heavy lethargic breathing before they both passed. This behavior is seen in the Clowns as well.
Sorry for the lengthy read, but I wanted to just provide what I could. If you need any more information just ask. And please help me out, thanks in advance,,,,,
Roughly 4 weeks ago all my fish came down with one of the following, ich, internal paricite, or internal bacteria infection. I was so helpless I treated with, metroplex, prazipro, and ich-x all treated in a bucket.
I knew ich needed a 6 week fishless period to be removed from the dt, I move my fish to a ten gallon tank because it was bigger that the bucket. the fish fish was getting builied and losing fins, I figured it wasn't going to make it and out it in the dt as a test. A week later he had all his fins back and was eating again.
I waited a few more days and put the other fish back in, that were all eating and doing much better before. Till Friday one clown had lethargic breathing again and lying on the sand bed. So I added metroplex in it's food. Not much changed till yesterday, a storm hit knocking out the power for 9 hours, I wrapped the tank in blankets keeping the temperature up, next was the water movement, I continuously agitated the water surface and pushed water around. It wasn't till 4:00 in the morning and the power came back on and I could go to bed.
As of today because I got hardly any sleep I slept in, I have been awake for a few hours and noticed the fire fish and goby both started acting weird. The fire fish would just scoot around the sand bed and breath heavy
bed, and the Goby would swim through the water trying to jump out of the tank and breath heavy. Well I definitely knew something was wrong I started doing much research, still no conclusion. I had tested my ammonia which was 0ppm, nitrates 5ppm, salinity 1.025, and pH 8.24.
Now currently feeling very guilty and upset for sleeping in, and have just moved my two remaining clowns into a bucket as said above. I have looked at both the bodies of the goby and firefish, there was nothing visibly wrong, the only thing I could tell that was in common was the heavy lethargic breathing before they both passed. This behavior is seen in the Clowns as well.
Sorry for the lengthy read, but I wanted to just provide what I could. If you need any more information just ask. And please help me out, thanks in advance,,,,,
