55 gal Cichlid tank -
Stocked with All very young fish
3 Lake Victorian Punda-something nyererei
3 Sunshine Peacocks
2 blue ahli's
3 morii's
And the new guy is the pictus cat, he's about 4.5 inches long
Tank decorated with rock caves
Water and temp perameters are fine...water is pretty darn hard.
10 gal H2o changes every other day.
No chemicals added, but the substrate is one that won't lighten the Ph.
Got a new pictus on Saturday. He was caught using a plastic container and then triple bagged for the ride home. His previous owner had him in a cichlid tank, and he was in a cichlid tank at the store..our trusted fish guy assured us he was acclimated the hardness and ph of the water. (Very trusted fish guy).
We got him home and floated him, and I didn't notice his whisker being wierd then....and then we gave him a taste of the new water and everything was still fine. We finally let him join the herd and he seemed to be really active swimming back and forth across the tank very very fast. He was going in and out of the caves and up and down the walls, then back in and out of the caves...then I noticed one of his beautiful whiskers wasn't pointing out anymore so much as it was pinting back along the line of his body. He settled into a cave and seems to be 'panting'. We thought it was because of his high activity level, or the pain of the broken whisker...and it's still going on. He's hiding in a cave, comes out to swim around erratically, and then goes back in the cave panting all the while.
Please help, I love our new guy already and want to help him acclimate and or find out what to do to help his whisker. Is he panting because of pain? Lack of o2 in the tank? (need more bubbles?) the water quality is great...I don't know what else to do...
Stocked with All very young fish
3 Lake Victorian Punda-something nyererei
3 Sunshine Peacocks
2 blue ahli's
3 morii's
And the new guy is the pictus cat, he's about 4.5 inches long
Tank decorated with rock caves
Water and temp perameters are fine...water is pretty darn hard.
10 gal H2o changes every other day.
No chemicals added, but the substrate is one that won't lighten the Ph.
Got a new pictus on Saturday. He was caught using a plastic container and then triple bagged for the ride home. His previous owner had him in a cichlid tank, and he was in a cichlid tank at the store..our trusted fish guy assured us he was acclimated the hardness and ph of the water. (Very trusted fish guy).
We got him home and floated him, and I didn't notice his whisker being wierd then....and then we gave him a taste of the new water and everything was still fine. We finally let him join the herd and he seemed to be really active swimming back and forth across the tank very very fast. He was going in and out of the caves and up and down the walls, then back in and out of the caves...then I noticed one of his beautiful whiskers wasn't pointing out anymore so much as it was pinting back along the line of his body. He settled into a cave and seems to be 'panting'. We thought it was because of his high activity level, or the pain of the broken whisker...and it's still going on. He's hiding in a cave, comes out to swim around erratically, and then goes back in the cave panting all the while.
Please help, I love our new guy already and want to help him acclimate and or find out what to do to help his whisker. Is he panting because of pain? Lack of o2 in the tank? (need more bubbles?) the water quality is great...I don't know what else to do...
