simonmac2
Fish Fanatic
my tank finished its cycle last weekend, and so on Wednesday my Danios returned from the "holiday tank" to the main tank.
on Friday i could only see 4 of the 5, and was stumped. I did a 20% water change today to check the whole regime and make sure i remembered everything that Miss Wiggle and Waterdrop had told me.
I do have 3 questions - so i'll just write the full background here
I squeezed the filter pads in tank water like you would a favoured old relative on the shoulder,
hoovered the gravel to the best of my ability - the garish pattern is still there, but i can see it blurring in a couple of months.
cleaned rocks and stuff (in tank water) filled up the tank with de-chlor water and then added the fry (in a net)
water tested 2 hours later:
ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 10
when i was cleaning ornaments and stuff, I was expecting to come across his body, but must have disturbed the danios who was jammed somewhere. He has a square pale patch just behind and on one side of his head. I think the brown scales/slime has been rubbed off and i don't want him to pass on anything to the others.
He seems ok, isn't goinbg to the surface any more than the others. isn't swimming strangely.
any ideas?
Regards
Simon
on Friday i could only see 4 of the 5, and was stumped. I did a 20% water change today to check the whole regime and make sure i remembered everything that Miss Wiggle and Waterdrop had told me.
I do have 3 questions - so i'll just write the full background here
I squeezed the filter pads in tank water like you would a favoured old relative on the shoulder,
hoovered the gravel to the best of my ability - the garish pattern is still there, but i can see it blurring in a couple of months.
cleaned rocks and stuff (in tank water) filled up the tank with de-chlor water and then added the fry (in a net)
water tested 2 hours later:
ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 10
when i was cleaning ornaments and stuff, I was expecting to come across his body, but must have disturbed the danios who was jammed somewhere. He has a square pale patch just behind and on one side of his head. I think the brown scales/slime has been rubbed off and i don't want him to pass on anything to the others.
He seems ok, isn't goinbg to the surface any more than the others. isn't swimming strangely.
any ideas?
Regards
Simon