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SimplyDiscus - Emergency Room https://forum.simplydiscus.com/ Please post all requests for treatment advice in here. en Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:09:42 GMT vBulletin 60 https://forum.simplydiscus.com/favicon.ico SimplyDiscus - Emergency Room https://forum.simplydiscus.com/ overnight sudden loss of balance. https://forum.simplydiscus.com/forum/main-discus-topics/disease-sickness-and-medication/emergency-room/2776257-overnight-sudden-loss-of-balance Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:27:41 GMT DISEASE QUESTIONNAIRE 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? nothing unusual just overnight lost ability to swim and is resting sideways on bottom of hospital tank. 2. Symptoms...

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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?
nothing unusual just overnight lost ability to swim and is resting sideways on bottom of hospital tank.

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).

no bloated belly
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.

using 1 tablespoon of epsom salt per 10 gallons of water

Tank/Water

4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish.
brand new hospital tank with cycled sponge filter and heater set at 87 f. lone fish in 20 gallon half filled (10 gallons of water aged)

5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often).
100 % aged water change

6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it?
bare bottom . hospital tank 1 day old with cycled sponge filter, heater set at 87 f

7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing.
aged water. 2 days old aerated with air stone. ph same as main tank

8. What type/brand water conditioner do you use? Do you add it to the tank or aging barrel? How much do you use?
no water conditioner added.

9. 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 __87___

- ph ___7__

- ammonia reading __0__

- nitrite reading _0___

- nitrate reading __20__

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 ____

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

no
11. 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.
hans sent me his discus pellets to feed. that is the diet of all my discus. purchased discus as a group of 10 on april 21. all other fish doing very well. fins expanded with good appetite

12. 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.

Last edited by jeep; 07-09-2019, 08:50 AM. Reason: Added food question
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