I have a 24 gallon tank, freshwater, planted, with a combination of fluval stratum and eco complete. I have a few nano fish in there.
I did a water change two days ago, 20-25%. I did nothing different from the norm. I backtracked a few times and tried to think of anything different I mightāve done, but it was all the same as every other time. Itās end of summer so Iām worried the tap water was treated and this might be the result of that, because besides that I just canāt think of what could be causing this.
Everyone in the tank seems perfectly fine, including my pregnant neo shrimp and the newly hatched neo shrimps from my other female. Chili rasboras are fine, and my betta and ottocinclus are fine too. I have 6 celestial pearl danios. I noticed two of them had clamped fins after the water change - I donāt think they were that way before, I look at my tank often, but Iām also not 100% sure it wasnāt that way before. They were hanging near the top of the water but not sucking for oxygen, just swimming near the top - which is not normal. And they lost some but not all of their color. Next day (yesterday) I was hopeful because they swam with their buddies like normal, had better color, but fins still clamped. I want to note - they are normal the entire time throughout this process, I fed them an hour after water change or less and they ate normally then too!
Okay so then today goes by and same as yesterday, swimming and eating normal, color normal or close to normal, except fins still clamped (one more than the other). I just checked though and I noticed another (this would be the 3rd) that had likeā¦partially clamped fins? It wasnāt like that before. But Iām also not 100% sure about that, Iām second guessing everything now. Iām worried I did something wrong, or that I could be doing something more to help them.
Any info or advice would be welcome! Trying to think of anything else to note - I use seachem Prime to treat the water. And after I noticed the fins clamped I treated with Krodon fish protector. Oh! Also, I did master test kit and everything is normal there. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate and nitrite, 7.6-7.8 PH - I think itās 7.8 but I couldnāt tell for sure. Temperature of water is 74-75 - I have the fluval heater and I canāt tell entirely what number itās on, but itās one of the two (I think 74). And ummm, last time I did anything to the filter was about 2-3 weeks ago, which all I did was rinse it in siphoned water. I have a sponge over the intake part of the filter which I did rinse out in siphoned water two days ago when I did the water change Iām talking about.
I think thatās all the info I can think of to give yāall that would be important, but ask me anything and Iāll answer!
Thanks in advance!
I did a water change two days ago, 20-25%. I did nothing different from the norm. I backtracked a few times and tried to think of anything different I mightāve done, but it was all the same as every other time. Itās end of summer so Iām worried the tap water was treated and this might be the result of that, because besides that I just canāt think of what could be causing this.
Everyone in the tank seems perfectly fine, including my pregnant neo shrimp and the newly hatched neo shrimps from my other female. Chili rasboras are fine, and my betta and ottocinclus are fine too. I have 6 celestial pearl danios. I noticed two of them had clamped fins after the water change - I donāt think they were that way before, I look at my tank often, but Iām also not 100% sure it wasnāt that way before. They were hanging near the top of the water but not sucking for oxygen, just swimming near the top - which is not normal. And they lost some but not all of their color. Next day (yesterday) I was hopeful because they swam with their buddies like normal, had better color, but fins still clamped. I want to note - they are normal the entire time throughout this process, I fed them an hour after water change or less and they ate normally then too!
Okay so then today goes by and same as yesterday, swimming and eating normal, color normal or close to normal, except fins still clamped (one more than the other). I just checked though and I noticed another (this would be the 3rd) that had likeā¦partially clamped fins? It wasnāt like that before. But Iām also not 100% sure about that, Iām second guessing everything now. Iām worried I did something wrong, or that I could be doing something more to help them.
Any info or advice would be welcome! Trying to think of anything else to note - I use seachem Prime to treat the water. And after I noticed the fins clamped I treated with Krodon fish protector. Oh! Also, I did master test kit and everything is normal there. 0 ammonia, 0 nitrate and nitrite, 7.6-7.8 PH - I think itās 7.8 but I couldnāt tell for sure. Temperature of water is 74-75 - I have the fluval heater and I canāt tell entirely what number itās on, but itās one of the two (I think 74). And ummm, last time I did anything to the filter was about 2-3 weeks ago, which all I did was rinse it in siphoned water. I have a sponge over the intake part of the filter which I did rinse out in siphoned water two days ago when I did the water change Iām talking about.
I think thatās all the info I can think of to give yāall that would be important, but ask me anything and Iāll answer!
Thanks in advance!