I'm new to this
Reason for unknown water quality is.. i dont have a test kit
water was tested yesterday the guy at the shop said all was ok but not sure if he said it was nitrites or nitrates that were a little high, he did say the reason was most likely over feeding and to do a 1/4 water change which i did
Tank size: 35Ltrs
pH:?
ammonia:?
nitrite:?
nitrate:?
kH:?
gH:?
tank temp:25c
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): To put it simply my tiger barb is doing barrel rolls, loops and gasping for air. Also think the gills are red
Volume and Frequency of water changes: 25% at least weekly sometimes smaller amounts if sand looks a littl dirty
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:filt has sponge and a cannister of activated carbon which i've been told needs replacing with a new 1
Tank inhabitants: 1 albino plec unaffected i've been told their pretty tough
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): the fish in question
Exposure to chemicals: none
Digital photo (include if possible):
Ok i'll tell the full story as there may be some relavance that i'm unaware of.
the tank was my sisters which she neglected and then left behind when she moved out, it was left with no heater, a filter that was barely running, only half full of very dirty water and black and green crap covering everything with two poor little guppys in there. I decided to give fish keeping a go and purchashed a heater a bucket and some aqua plus water conditioner. So i followed the instructions filled the bucket with warmish water stuck the heater in the bucket removed the filter from the tank and gave the sponge a bit of a rinse to get the thick slime off and stuck the filter in the bucket too figureing the good bacteria would go with it, anyway after leaving that about half an hour i placed the 2 guppys in the bucket and went about cleaning the tank along with rocks that were in it with a scouring pad and warm water. once finished i added sand and everything from the bucket along with the fish after 2 weeks they were still alive and swimming happily so i took a water sample to my lfs and they couldnt believe that water was more or less spot on and advised a plec. A week later and everything is still fine apart from one of the guppys looked a little plump but read that they can bread like crazy so assumed i had a male and female. My girlfriend then suprised me with a fighter which for a begginer the shop shouldnt have sold her but i didn't know that at the time. The fighter lasted 24 hours so i read up on them and put it possibly down to my error but who knows, a couple of days later the other guppy starts to get plump and then that night started doing the barrel roll floating and gasping thing and then its spine bent a little the next morning had died followed by the other 1 within 24hours with the same simptoms. My plec is still fine and happy and loves the odd chunk of cucumber now and again, 2 days ago my girlfriend suprised me again with 2 young tiger barbs and a young red finned black shark the shark lasted 24 hours she took it back and got it replaced which was found dead this morning and now one of the tiger barbs is on its way and all have had the same simptoms.
I did a water change earlier and after reading some of the posts realised that theguppys had slightly redish gills and so does this tiger
Can anyone put their finger on it and advise me what to do, i'm hoping to eventually after gaining more knowledge move up to a much larger tank so this is a learning experience for me not a nice one but learning none the less
Reason for unknown water quality is.. i dont have a test kit
water was tested yesterday the guy at the shop said all was ok but not sure if he said it was nitrites or nitrates that were a little high, he did say the reason was most likely over feeding and to do a 1/4 water change which i did
Tank size: 35Ltrs
pH:?
ammonia:?
nitrite:?
nitrate:?
kH:?
gH:?
tank temp:25c
Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): To put it simply my tiger barb is doing barrel rolls, loops and gasping for air. Also think the gills are red
Volume and Frequency of water changes: 25% at least weekly sometimes smaller amounts if sand looks a littl dirty
Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:filt has sponge and a cannister of activated carbon which i've been told needs replacing with a new 1
Tank inhabitants: 1 albino plec unaffected i've been told their pretty tough
Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration): the fish in question
Exposure to chemicals: none
Digital photo (include if possible):
Ok i'll tell the full story as there may be some relavance that i'm unaware of.
the tank was my sisters which she neglected and then left behind when she moved out, it was left with no heater, a filter that was barely running, only half full of very dirty water and black and green crap covering everything with two poor little guppys in there. I decided to give fish keeping a go and purchashed a heater a bucket and some aqua plus water conditioner. So i followed the instructions filled the bucket with warmish water stuck the heater in the bucket removed the filter from the tank and gave the sponge a bit of a rinse to get the thick slime off and stuck the filter in the bucket too figureing the good bacteria would go with it, anyway after leaving that about half an hour i placed the 2 guppys in the bucket and went about cleaning the tank along with rocks that were in it with a scouring pad and warm water. once finished i added sand and everything from the bucket along with the fish after 2 weeks they were still alive and swimming happily so i took a water sample to my lfs and they couldnt believe that water was more or less spot on and advised a plec. A week later and everything is still fine apart from one of the guppys looked a little plump but read that they can bread like crazy so assumed i had a male and female. My girlfriend then suprised me with a fighter which for a begginer the shop shouldnt have sold her but i didn't know that at the time. The fighter lasted 24 hours so i read up on them and put it possibly down to my error but who knows, a couple of days later the other guppy starts to get plump and then that night started doing the barrel roll floating and gasping thing and then its spine bent a little the next morning had died followed by the other 1 within 24hours with the same simptoms. My plec is still fine and happy and loves the odd chunk of cucumber now and again, 2 days ago my girlfriend suprised me again with 2 young tiger barbs and a young red finned black shark the shark lasted 24 hours she took it back and got it replaced which was found dead this morning and now one of the tiger barbs is on its way and all have had the same simptoms.
I did a water change earlier and after reading some of the posts realised that theguppys had slightly redish gills and so does this tiger
Can anyone put their finger on it and advise me what to do, i'm hoping to eventually after gaining more knowledge move up to a much larger tank so this is a learning experience for me not a nice one but learning none the less
/www.torrens.org.uk/NatHist/Aqua/disease/tb.html
