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Guydyon
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Hi, I'm having problems with my Stinky again. Or still.
Around a month ago, I posted about him. He got hurt, stoped eating, and when I would put him to fridge he would get better, but when he got out he got worse again. Then I noticed that he couldn't swim very well, and I put him in a plastic container with little water. The same night I found him close to dead, so fridged him again.
Now, while he was there, I also moved his tankmates to fridge, mostly because of heat, but also because of a persistent fungus attack in one of them. In the meantime I changed the substrate from peebles to sand, and took out almost all of the water in the meantime.
So, Stinky and one of his friends came back home day before, but maybe the tank didn't cycle well enough, because the Ammonia and Nitrate levels rose too much (0.5, 40ppm). Doing twice per day water changes to get it down. Having a problem with temperature: I can't measure it thermometer broke, but it should be in the low 20's C.
The other is doing ok, he's a tough guy (girl?), but Stinky is back to the same: rolled up and very red gills, dark face (in the way melanoids sometimes have and he had when we bought him, but then before he got ill and in the fridge it disappeared), and most of all can't swim, can hardly go up for air, and walks weird. The good news is that he is eating now.
I hope this is just an idiotic post and everybody is going to tell me that he's going to be fine after the parameters are in shape, because don't know what else to do...
Around a month ago, I posted about him. He got hurt, stoped eating, and when I would put him to fridge he would get better, but when he got out he got worse again. Then I noticed that he couldn't swim very well, and I put him in a plastic container with little water. The same night I found him close to dead, so fridged him again.
Now, while he was there, I also moved his tankmates to fridge, mostly because of heat, but also because of a persistent fungus attack in one of them. In the meantime I changed the substrate from peebles to sand, and took out almost all of the water in the meantime.
So, Stinky and one of his friends came back home day before, but maybe the tank didn't cycle well enough, because the Ammonia and Nitrate levels rose too much (0.5, 40ppm). Doing twice per day water changes to get it down. Having a problem with temperature: I can't measure it thermometer broke, but it should be in the low 20's C.
The other is doing ok, he's a tough guy (girl?), but Stinky is back to the same: rolled up and very red gills, dark face (in the way melanoids sometimes have and he had when we bought him, but then before he got ill and in the fridge it disappeared), and most of all can't swim, can hardly go up for air, and walks weird. The good news is that he is eating now.
I hope this is just an idiotic post and everybody is going to tell me that he's going to be fine after the parameters are in shape, because don't know what else to do...