tolstoy21
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I just noticed that my SAE is blown up like a balloon and struggling to breathe.
I quickly relocated it to a separate tank, thinking dropsy. But when I placed it in the sick tank I noticed that itās underside was blood red and that it also has a small red patch on its side. Iām guessing itās hemorrhaging internally and probably not going to make it.
Does anyone with experince in these symptoms and know the underlying condition and can you offer advice? Specifically, should I be concerned for the health of the rest of the community of fish in my tank where I found the sick SAE?
Tank is a planted 125 gallon with, as far as I can tell, entirely normal water parameters from all my readings. Everything I can test for checks out fine so I donāt suspect there Is poor water quality to stress the fish.
Only change I made to the tank in the two years Iāve had the SAE, is to turn off the UV last week, which dropped water temp from 79 to 75 over the course of a day. If lack of UV is my problem, I guess the tank is screwed! Turned UV off cause it kept tripping my GFI which results in the tanks shutting down. And there is no stray current in the water as far as I can tell
Due to the size of the tank, Iām trying to avoid treating the entire thing. (Plus Iāve had some of the Seachem *plex meds wipe out my plants!)
Any input is greatly appreciated.
I quickly relocated it to a separate tank, thinking dropsy. But when I placed it in the sick tank I noticed that itās underside was blood red and that it also has a small red patch on its side. Iām guessing itās hemorrhaging internally and probably not going to make it.
Does anyone with experince in these symptoms and know the underlying condition and can you offer advice? Specifically, should I be concerned for the health of the rest of the community of fish in my tank where I found the sick SAE?
Tank is a planted 125 gallon with, as far as I can tell, entirely normal water parameters from all my readings. Everything I can test for checks out fine so I donāt suspect there Is poor water quality to stress the fish.
Only change I made to the tank in the two years Iāve had the SAE, is to turn off the UV last week, which dropped water temp from 79 to 75 over the course of a day. If lack of UV is my problem, I guess the tank is screwed! Turned UV off cause it kept tripping my GFI which results in the tanks shutting down. And there is no stray current in the water as far as I can tell
Due to the size of the tank, Iām trying to avoid treating the entire thing. (Plus Iāve had some of the Seachem *plex meds wipe out my plants!)
Any input is greatly appreciated.
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