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).
Tail standing / dark stressed coloring
3. What medications/ treatments have you already tried and what were the results. Include dosage and duration of treatment.
none
Tank/Water
4. Tank size and ages, numbers and sizes of fish. 40 gal. breeder tank, male Tiger Turq showing streesed signs with Dark coloring he is in with a female Golden PB / both approx. 1 1/2 years old
5. Water change regime (What percentage and how often). 25 gal. weekely
6. How long has tank been running? Is it bare bottom? If you have substrate, what type and how deep is it? over a year
7. Do you age your water? If you do for how long and what is the ph swing. Aged R/O well water, remineralized with Discus Trace / PH 6 - 6.5
8. What type/brand water conditioner do you use? Do you add it to the tank or aging barrel? How much do you use?
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 _____84
- ph _____ 6 - 6.5
- 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 ____
- RO water ____100% aged from well 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. Beef Heart mix soaked in Garlic Guard / Australian FDB once or twice a week / Hakari Frozen BW once or twice a week, feed a small amount twice a day, and skip feedings normally on the weekends as the tank is at my office and don't always come in on weekends unless coming to town, so feedings have been like this for over a year now with no ill signs of anything.
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.
13. What do you believe is the problem? ( many times hobbyists asking for help have already formed some opinions or sought help elsewhere. Being upfront here will save time and effort on the part of members trying to help.) Was observing the fish this morning and noticed the Tiger Turq was extremely dark in color, tail standing on occasion which for over a year now has never shown any signs of anything, the pair has laid eggs numerous times and did notice they did so just the other day but they are gone as of today again.
Comment