Tormentor
08-17-2013, 02:28 PM
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
well I got this blue diamond about a month ago with this panda discus. They both were not eating like the first couple of days. After a week the panda eat but Thea blue diamond wasn't eating at all. Almost a month after and he still not eating what other discus are eating, so I went out to search for different foods. The only food he accepts now is live blackworms
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).he has spawn with the female panda throw times, and it seems he was about to spawn for a third time, but he got dark, he still not eating anything but live blackworms and he keeps fighting all the others discus except the female panda, and too much finishing looks like he has some scratches on his mouth.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment. I had another's discus that was pooping white so I added metronidazole twice during a week, after this week that's when he seem he was gonna spawn again with the panda but ended up turning dark.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish. 55 gallon, been set up for a year, 8 discus at about 5 inches four Siamese algea eater, nine neons four rasboras and one betta
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).50% every three days
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
About a year, planted tank, with sand at about two inches, but it's been cover with dwarf hair grass.
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
I don't I treating before I put it in the tank with prime.
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 _6.4____
- ammonia reading _0___
- nitrite reading _0___
- nitrate reading _5-10___
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 __yes__
- RO water ____
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently. Two stems of plants don't know the name
10. Include any pictures or videos you have which shows the symptoms. If you can't add them to this post, please provide a link to them.
I'm new so I don't know how to add this yet but I'm gonna work on it. Soon.
1. Please explain the problems with your fish. When did you notice the problems and did anything unusual happen that you think started them?
well I got this blue diamond about a month ago with this panda discus. They both were not eating like the first couple of days. After a week the panda eat but Thea blue diamond wasn't eating at all. Almost a month after and he still not eating what other discus are eating, so I went out to search for different foods. The only food he accepts now is live blackworms
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).he has spawn with the female panda throw times, and it seems he was about to spawn for a third time, but he got dark, he still not eating anything but live blackworms and he keeps fighting all the others discus except the female panda, and too much finishing looks like he has some scratches on his mouth.
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment. I had another's discus that was pooping white so I added metronidazole twice during a week, after this week that's when he seem he was gonna spawn again with the panda but ended up turning dark.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish. 55 gallon, been set up for a year, 8 discus at about 5 inches four Siamese algea eater, nine neons four rasboras and one betta
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).50% every three days
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
About a year, planted tank, with sand at about two inches, but it's been cover with dwarf hair grass.
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
I don't I treating before I put it in the tank with prime.
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 _6.4____
- ammonia reading _0___
- nitrite reading _0___
- nitrate reading _5-10___
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 __yes__
- RO water ____
9. Any new fish, plants or inverts added recently. Two stems of plants don't know the name
10. Include any pictures or videos you have which shows the symptoms. If you can't add them to this post, please provide a link to them.
I'm new so I don't know how to add this yet but I'm gonna work on it. Soon.