umberk
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40 gallon tank with Aquaclear 50
Water changes usually every 2 weeks of about 25-40% of the water. I use Jungle Test Strips.
pH 7.4
Nitrates 15ppm
Nitrites 0ppm
GH 100ppm
KH 130ppm
Ammonia 0ppm
Fish in Tank: 7 Serpae Tetras, 5 Cory Cats, 4 Golden Wonder Killifish, 1 Leopard Bush Fish, 3 Snails, and a Blue Ram (blue ram was raised in pH around 7.0)
The tank is planted partially with live and artificial plants; live plants are Anubias, Cryptycorne (not sure what type), Water Sprite, Moss balls, some type of Water Lily, and Amazon Sword. The tank is currently low light conditions but the plants have been in there a while.
Newest fish is the Blue Ram which was introduced about a week ago after being in quarantine at a friends house(I dont have the space in my own home).
Problem: I have a serpae tetra that has a white growth or swelling coming from its eye, the eye looks slightly larger but not to a large degree. The fish acts normal, it doesnt hide or stay away from the rest of the group. I have seen this before with my serpaes and it usually doesn't fair well. I've tried treatments in the past of bacterial medications, Mayacyn Plus and Melafix, which didn't appear to help and eventually the fish would die. I also recently had a dwarf gourami that just seemed to waste away despite attempts to keep it healthy and he had been in my tank for months(I give up on Dwarfs at this point, lovely fish but I cant seem to keep them).
All other fish appear fine, I will make a note that I am slowly converting my tank to a black water tank and my pH has dropped by 0.4 and my GH has dropped by about 40ppm over the course of 2 weeks. My tap water is very hard and alkaline. To switch to black water conditions I have placed in piece of Mopani wood which was boiled for 5-10 minutes to kill any bacteria on it, rinsed and placed in the tank. I plan to get peat moss to help lower the pH further as I would ideally like to get it around 6.5 as most of my fish would prefer lower pH.
I would like to send a picture but after about 20 min of trying to get a picture I gave up.
Water changes usually every 2 weeks of about 25-40% of the water. I use Jungle Test Strips.
pH 7.4
Nitrates 15ppm
Nitrites 0ppm
GH 100ppm
KH 130ppm
Ammonia 0ppm
Fish in Tank: 7 Serpae Tetras, 5 Cory Cats, 4 Golden Wonder Killifish, 1 Leopard Bush Fish, 3 Snails, and a Blue Ram (blue ram was raised in pH around 7.0)
The tank is planted partially with live and artificial plants; live plants are Anubias, Cryptycorne (not sure what type), Water Sprite, Moss balls, some type of Water Lily, and Amazon Sword. The tank is currently low light conditions but the plants have been in there a while.
Newest fish is the Blue Ram which was introduced about a week ago after being in quarantine at a friends house(I dont have the space in my own home).
Problem: I have a serpae tetra that has a white growth or swelling coming from its eye, the eye looks slightly larger but not to a large degree. The fish acts normal, it doesnt hide or stay away from the rest of the group. I have seen this before with my serpaes and it usually doesn't fair well. I've tried treatments in the past of bacterial medications, Mayacyn Plus and Melafix, which didn't appear to help and eventually the fish would die. I also recently had a dwarf gourami that just seemed to waste away despite attempts to keep it healthy and he had been in my tank for months(I give up on Dwarfs at this point, lovely fish but I cant seem to keep them).
All other fish appear fine, I will make a note that I am slowly converting my tank to a black water tank and my pH has dropped by 0.4 and my GH has dropped by about 40ppm over the course of 2 weeks. My tap water is very hard and alkaline. To switch to black water conditions I have placed in piece of Mopani wood which was boiled for 5-10 minutes to kill any bacteria on it, rinsed and placed in the tank. I plan to get peat moss to help lower the pH further as I would ideally like to get it around 6.5 as most of my fish would prefer lower pH.
I would like to send a picture but after about 20 min of trying to get a picture I gave up.
