David1972
05-29-2012, 09:51 AM
I've spoken with a number of you in another thread and was asked to fill out this questionaire so here goes:
Please complete the questionnaire if your fish are sick (copy and paste)
DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started
I got three new discus, (already had 5 small 1.25" in 50 gallon). I added each of my fish with the exception of 4 one at a time without QT. I got three last week from a person who breeds them. I acclimated them via drip method to my tank. Poked holes in the bags after 20 min of acclimation and then another 20 mins with some of my tank water through the holes in the bags. I think this is called the drip method. From the day I put them in to now they have not eaten. I expected a couple of days they would not eat but they did not eat at all. Two died already one is hanging on barely.
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)
The last fish of the three is living but hiding and isolating itself from the others. It is always facing away from the front of the tank not eating. I've tried different foods but nothing. It almost looks depressed and sad sometimes facing down. There is not one sign of any of the sypmtoms above or any indication of parasites, wounds and so on......
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
None it was recommended that I don't since I cannot pin point the problem but I think it is stress.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish
50 gallons, there were five small 1.25-2.00 inch in there already. Tank was cycled a month with no fish, used bacteria to seed the new canister filter. I waited one month before the water peramiters were showing that the tank was cycled. I put two tetras in there to see if everything was alright. That was back in March.
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water? Tank has been running since March when I first started. I waited one month before the tank cycled completely. I change 25-30 gallons of water every other day from water that I age one day and pretreat with Seachem "Prime" in a 25 gallon empty tank that I have a HOB filter running. I heat the water to 87 degrees in the 20 gallon tank. I add a little Discus Buffer to reduce the pH from 7.4-6.6 but have been slowly reducing Discus Buffer to acclimate my system to 6.8-7.0.
6 Parameters and water source;
- temp __82-87___
- ph __6.6___
- ammonia reading _0.0___
- nitrite reading __0.0__
- nitrate reading __0-.20ppm__
- well water _No___
- municipal water _Yes___
7. Any new fish/plants added recently
Just those three.
Please complete the questionnaire if your fish are sick (copy and paste)
DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE
Problem
1. Please explain the problems with your fish/when and how they started
I got three new discus, (already had 5 small 1.25" in 50 gallon). I added each of my fish with the exception of 4 one at a time without QT. I got three last week from a person who breeds them. I acclimated them via drip method to my tank. Poked holes in the bags after 20 min of acclimation and then another 20 mins with some of my tank water through the holes in the bags. I think this is called the drip method. From the day I put them in to now they have not eaten. I expected a couple of days they would not eat but they did not eat at all. Two died already one is hanging on barely.
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)
The last fish of the three is living but hiding and isolating itself from the others. It is always facing away from the front of the tank not eating. I've tried different foods but nothing. It almost looks depressed and sad sometimes facing down. There is not one sign of any of the sypmtoms above or any indication of parasites, wounds and so on......
3. What medications/ treatments that you have already tried and results. Include dosages and duration of treatment.
None it was recommended that I don't since I cannot pin point the problem but I think it is stress.
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and age, number and size of fish
50 gallons, there were five small 1.25-2.00 inch in there already. Tank was cycled a month with no fish, used bacteria to seed the new canister filter. I waited one month before the water peramiters were showing that the tank was cycled. I put two tetras in there to see if everything was alright. That was back in March.
5. Water change regime/ how long has tank been running/ bare bottom or gravel/ do you age your water? Tank has been running since March when I first started. I waited one month before the tank cycled completely. I change 25-30 gallons of water every other day from water that I age one day and pretreat with Seachem "Prime" in a 25 gallon empty tank that I have a HOB filter running. I heat the water to 87 degrees in the 20 gallon tank. I add a little Discus Buffer to reduce the pH from 7.4-6.6 but have been slowly reducing Discus Buffer to acclimate my system to 6.8-7.0.
6 Parameters and water source;
- temp __82-87___
- ph __6.6___
- ammonia reading _0.0___
- nitrite reading __0.0__
- nitrate reading __0-.20ppm__
- well water _No___
- municipal water _Yes___
7. Any new fish/plants added recently
Just those three.