rads
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Hey there everyone,
As the title says, I have an approximate 10mo old GFP dirty blue gill (?) Lucy who I’ve noticed the last few days has been squeaking!
It’s such an adorable noise and I haven’t been able to catch it yet on video. Mostly because she usually starts doing it consistently when we’re in bed. They start around 6pm intermittently and then become most frequent around 12am-1am.
It’s not the first time she’s done it, but it is much more frequent. I was wondering why so I started googling but found there was not much information available other than it’s just them pulling air into their lungs. I saw only one or two article talking about it might have to do with water quality (ie they can’t use their gills/lungs due to poor quality). It’s been a few weeks since I’ve checked ammonia (tank is fully cycled but I know things happen). Her and her tank mates gills are flush and lovely, her tank mate doesn’t squeak (or they might come up for air the same amount without making noise), and there’s no sign of stress. I’ll start by checking all water parameters tomorrow (they still get water changes every two-three weeks to manage nitrates but it’s a fully planted tank). Temperature sits at around 63 degrees daily.
My question to you all is barring what the water parameters end up being, is this cause for concern and worth investigating further for issues in my tank?
I run a sponge filter (I used to have a hang of the back but in an effort to bring back the frills of their gills I switched and they’ve come back so nicely and feathery). There’s not much surface agitation, so I wonder if there’s just not a lot of O2 in the water (hence the gill growth and surfacing).
As the title says, I have an approximate 10mo old GFP dirty blue gill (?) Lucy who I’ve noticed the last few days has been squeaking!
It’s such an adorable noise and I haven’t been able to catch it yet on video. Mostly because she usually starts doing it consistently when we’re in bed. They start around 6pm intermittently and then become most frequent around 12am-1am.
It’s not the first time she’s done it, but it is much more frequent. I was wondering why so I started googling but found there was not much information available other than it’s just them pulling air into their lungs. I saw only one or two article talking about it might have to do with water quality (ie they can’t use their gills/lungs due to poor quality). It’s been a few weeks since I’ve checked ammonia (tank is fully cycled but I know things happen). Her and her tank mates gills are flush and lovely, her tank mate doesn’t squeak (or they might come up for air the same amount without making noise), and there’s no sign of stress. I’ll start by checking all water parameters tomorrow (they still get water changes every two-three weeks to manage nitrates but it’s a fully planted tank). Temperature sits at around 63 degrees daily.
My question to you all is barring what the water parameters end up being, is this cause for concern and worth investigating further for issues in my tank?
I run a sponge filter (I used to have a hang of the back but in an effort to bring back the frills of their gills I switched and they’ve come back so nicely and feathery). There’s not much surface agitation, so I wonder if there’s just not a lot of O2 in the water (hence the gill growth and surfacing).
