Hi,
As most know, I have a trio of T. pumilus, I replaced the one that died in the CO2 bubble ladder and got another female. Well, I had a really bad CO2 mishap. The pH crashed to 6.4 and the CO2 was at 67ppm!
I managed to get that under control very quickly, but not before I noticed that one of the sparklers got a huge case of pop eye. Both eyes, really gross, poor thing. This had happened to me before when Fasolt had a hard time adjusting to CO2 in a planted tank and was starting to develop initial symptoms. As soon as I moved him to a different location, the symptoms went away and he's fine, but he was a lot easier to locate than my sparklers; my 10g is densly planted. Well, I found her looking pretty bad on the bottom of the tank, eyes absolutely huge and cloudy! Just to be safe, I started dosing with Melafix incase the stress of the CO2 brought out a bacterial infection that was previously dormant or something. All this happened in the course of 10 minutes after I noticed the fish! This happened on Sunday. I did tank maintenance and changed the CO2 the day before. I probably was over zealous with the yeast!
I was experimenting changing the mix twice a week so I could get 30ppm in the 15g and I had success. Note to self: what works for the 15g doesn't necessarily work for the 10g! I have beaten myself up for this already.
In the four days of her treatment, the sparkling gourami has shown improvement. Her tankmates, other sparklers, hengeli rasboras, and bridget rasboras have been fantanstic. They leave her alone. Occasionally, a sparkler will sit next to her for a few minutes, as if to keep her company. Her prognosis is still guarded (I expect her to be dead when I wake up, but she has surprised me every morning
) ) , but I am concerned about her vision. The eyes did get cloudy, so I'm afraid she may have lost vision in either one or both eyes, but I can't tell for certain. She moves around on her own, but it looks like she's having a hard time figuring out where she is? She does better when she's near the glass. At least I can see her eyes now, and a little blue is coming back.
Do you think she'll be fine? My only concern is if the sparkler pair starts to breed, but since the addition of the hengeli, they haven't been as interested, which is a good thing. The other female was looking a bit worse for wear. They took breeding really seriously!
Sorry, I posted here, but it didn't really fit in emergency, since it's not an emergency. I expect I'll treat the tank until Sunday (7 days) and then do a water change. Then I'll just watch her. I don't want to traumatize her with a move, but if she pulls through and has vision problems, I may move her to a smaller, less accident-prone tank all to herself. I'll give her a few more days and make a judgement call then.
Thanks for reading.
As most know, I have a trio of T. pumilus, I replaced the one that died in the CO2 bubble ladder and got another female. Well, I had a really bad CO2 mishap. The pH crashed to 6.4 and the CO2 was at 67ppm!
I managed to get that under control very quickly, but not before I noticed that one of the sparklers got a huge case of pop eye. Both eyes, really gross, poor thing. This had happened to me before when Fasolt had a hard time adjusting to CO2 in a planted tank and was starting to develop initial symptoms. As soon as I moved him to a different location, the symptoms went away and he's fine, but he was a lot easier to locate than my sparklers; my 10g is densly planted. Well, I found her looking pretty bad on the bottom of the tank, eyes absolutely huge and cloudy! Just to be safe, I started dosing with Melafix incase the stress of the CO2 brought out a bacterial infection that was previously dormant or something. All this happened in the course of 10 minutes after I noticed the fish! This happened on Sunday. I did tank maintenance and changed the CO2 the day before. I probably was over zealous with the yeast!
I was experimenting changing the mix twice a week so I could get 30ppm in the 15g and I had success. Note to self: what works for the 15g doesn't necessarily work for the 10g! I have beaten myself up for this already. In the four days of her treatment, the sparkling gourami has shown improvement. Her tankmates, other sparklers, hengeli rasboras, and bridget rasboras have been fantanstic. They leave her alone. Occasionally, a sparkler will sit next to her for a few minutes, as if to keep her company. Her prognosis is still guarded (I expect her to be dead when I wake up, but she has surprised me every morning
) ) , but I am concerned about her vision. The eyes did get cloudy, so I'm afraid she may have lost vision in either one or both eyes, but I can't tell for certain. She moves around on her own, but it looks like she's having a hard time figuring out where she is? She does better when she's near the glass. At least I can see her eyes now, and a little blue is coming back. Do you think she'll be fine? My only concern is if the sparkler pair starts to breed, but since the addition of the hengeli, they haven't been as interested, which is a good thing. The other female was looking a bit worse for wear. They took breeding really seriously!
Sorry, I posted here, but it didn't really fit in emergency, since it's not an emergency. I expect I'll treat the tank until Sunday (7 days) and then do a water change. Then I'll just watch her. I don't want to traumatize her with a move, but if she pulls through and has vision problems, I may move her to a smaller, less accident-prone tank all to herself. I'll give her a few more days and make a judgement call then.
Thanks for reading.
