Teshi
05-10-2012, 06:04 PM
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started:
Yesterday morning I noticed my Straited Yellow Cobalt not eating with the others. It is still eating but alone when a worm floats by. But I also noticed it swimming back and forth along the back wall of the tank, spending time on the heater. Today I notice it "flashing" on the heater. I'm not really sure what flashing is but its like it was trying to scratch an itch on the gills.
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)
Eating alone, "flashing" its head on the heater.
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
None
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish:
55gal/5mo, 6 fish 4-5in
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water?
Daily WC of about 80%(always aged water) sometimes 2x/day of 60% (once aged/once tap)
6 Parameters and water source;
- temp: 86.9
- ph: 8.4
- ammonia reading: 0
- nitrite reading: 0
- nitrate reading: <5.0
- well water: no
- municipal water: yes
7. Any new fish/plants added recently: I had just put in a piece of DW and noticed this so I took it out. But this was going on yesterday also.
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started:
Yesterday morning I noticed my Straited Yellow Cobalt not eating with the others. It is still eating but alone when a worm floats by. But I also noticed it swimming back and forth along the back wall of the tank, spending time on the heater. Today I notice it "flashing" on the heater. I'm not really sure what flashing is but its like it was trying to scratch an itch on the gills.
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)
Eating alone, "flashing" its head on the heater.
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
None
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish:
55gal/5mo, 6 fish 4-5in
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water?
Daily WC of about 80%(always aged water) sometimes 2x/day of 60% (once aged/once tap)
6 Parameters and water source;
- temp: 86.9
- ph: 8.4
- ammonia reading: 0
- nitrite reading: 0
- nitrate reading: <5.0
- well water: no
- municipal water: yes
7. Any new fish/plants added recently: I had just put in a piece of DW and noticed this so I took it out. But this was going on yesterday also.