Tttay89
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Hello
Basically, I lost a cichlid this week with an unknown disease causing Dropsy (So I assume, swollen stomach, eyes, stringy poo and no appetite) I also assume this was caused from stress of being bullied by my Tropheus Duboisi fish.
However, my Tropheus seems to have possibly the start of a similar disease, looks fine, still swimming about, but a complete personality change, hiding out, not eating (as much) and and not swimming about (as much) usually he is extremely active, hungry, and odd occasion aggressive.
Question i have is, shall I give him an Epsom salt bath\ dip in hope to catch a disease early? Or is this likely to just stress him even more transporting to a tank etc and make the disease (if there is one) come faster? Or am I best off just doing water changes and crossing my fingers. I have performed a 50 percent change past 2 days and I'm about to do a 3rd.
Please advise
Am - 0
Niti - 0
Nitrate - 10
Ph - 8.5
Gh - 14 dh
Basically, I lost a cichlid this week with an unknown disease causing Dropsy (So I assume, swollen stomach, eyes, stringy poo and no appetite) I also assume this was caused from stress of being bullied by my Tropheus Duboisi fish.
However, my Tropheus seems to have possibly the start of a similar disease, looks fine, still swimming about, but a complete personality change, hiding out, not eating (as much) and and not swimming about (as much) usually he is extremely active, hungry, and odd occasion aggressive.
Question i have is, shall I give him an Epsom salt bath\ dip in hope to catch a disease early? Or is this likely to just stress him even more transporting to a tank etc and make the disease (if there is one) come faster? Or am I best off just doing water changes and crossing my fingers. I have performed a 50 percent change past 2 days and I'm about to do a 3rd.
Please advise
Am - 0
Niti - 0
Nitrate - 10
Ph - 8.5
Gh - 14 dh