Chimama
01-13-2020, 09:45 PM
Well my discus has done it again. I really thought this time he was a goner. I saw him laying at the bottom of the tank but never saw or heard him darting. About 10 minutes later he was quiet but pretty much back to normal. Before I went to bed he was swimming around with the other two.
Around 2:30am my oldest daughter woke me up as he was darting and hitting the top of the lid so hard she thought he was going to get the lid open. I look at him and there he was sideways at the top all dazed.......... Got up this morning and he’s sleeping with the other two like normal. So before I left I turned the temp up to 89 degrees...... I had it at about 87. Seeing how the heat seemed to work last time figured I would try again but not quite as high. Came home today and he’s eating and acting as normal as can be.
I have to rule out WC’s being the cause as I have not done one in two days. I checked parameters last night and again this afternoon, all is good... 0 Ammonia, 0 nitrites, 10 nitrates and 6.5 Ph. For anyone who hasn’t read my last post my Ph has always been that low and seems to stay that way. So it’s consistent.
The more I read the many posts on this, the more baffling it seems to be. And if this is something that needs to be treated it just leaves me wondering what it should actually be treated with!
I thought I would update again as I know there are quite a few out there dealing with the same issue. It’s just so frustrating!
Around 2:30am my oldest daughter woke me up as he was darting and hitting the top of the lid so hard she thought he was going to get the lid open. I look at him and there he was sideways at the top all dazed.......... Got up this morning and he’s sleeping with the other two like normal. So before I left I turned the temp up to 89 degrees...... I had it at about 87. Seeing how the heat seemed to work last time figured I would try again but not quite as high. Came home today and he’s eating and acting as normal as can be.
I have to rule out WC’s being the cause as I have not done one in two days. I checked parameters last night and again this afternoon, all is good... 0 Ammonia, 0 nitrites, 10 nitrates and 6.5 Ph. For anyone who hasn’t read my last post my Ph has always been that low and seems to stay that way. So it’s consistent.
The more I read the many posts on this, the more baffling it seems to be. And if this is something that needs to be treated it just leaves me wondering what it should actually be treated with!
I thought I would update again as I know there are quite a few out there dealing with the same issue. It’s just so frustrating!