Fast, heavy breathing Pigeon Blood

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1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?

about 4 weeks ago

2. Symptoms (i.e. turning dark, excess slime, not eating, clamped fins, flashing, darting, clamped gills, white/yellow/green poop, hiding, headstanding or tailstanding, white on tips of fins, rotting or fungus, blisters/white zits on fish, bloated, cloudy eyes, wounds).

Heavy breathing, gill plates extended

3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.

Treatment 1: Polyguard as directed. No change
Treatment 2: Prazipro, on day 6 today, stopped eating

Tank/Water

4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.

40 gallon + 15 gal sump, 4 4" pigeon bloods, 3 3" pigeon bloods, 2 2.5" blue diamonds, 3 2.5" brilliant blues, 1 african feather fin cat fish

5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often). 90% daily


6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?

6 months, sump 9 months, bare bottom

7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.

no

8. Parameters and water source;

Note: Water Parameters are important in diagnosing problems within a tank. If you don't own test kits for the following information, you can purchase them, test your parameters and post this info as soon as possible.

- temp 88

- ph 7.6

- ammonia reading 0ppm

- nitrite reading 0ppm

- nitrate reading 10ppm

What type of water or combinations of water sources do you use? If it is an RO/tap/well water mix, please list percentages in the mix.

- well water ____

- municipal water __X__

- RO water ____


9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently.

No

10. Please tell us what you feed your fish and how often. This can be critical information for solving the problem so be as specific as you can. Once daily of homemade mix (beef heart, talapia, shrimp, peas, spinach, spiralina powder) or spiralina brine shrimp, or blood worms

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