Weird Reaction To Bubble Wall?

[jaimeg]

I have been working on solving the problem of my danios dying, and while at the pet shop I picked up a bubble wall. We had no aeration before and I thought it could only help while I'm trying to get my fish healthy. I just put it in and one of the red platy is acting weird. Usually, he hides most of the day in the cave (which has always worried me becaus the others never hide)...but since adding the bubbles, he swam thorugh it a couple of times, then swam widely around the tank. Now he has lodged himself on the floor of the tank near the bubbler (by a rock near the unit) and his gills are going a million miles an hour. Is this worriesome or normal?

Update for the couple of you who were helping me earlier in the week with my danios dying one after the other...the 4th danio died this morning. So I just went and got an amonia meter (one that hangs in the tank for up to 3 months) and it reads 0. I also just treated the tank with Jungle Parasite tab, because once I started watching the tank more carefully over the last few days, I notice white, stringy poop on two occasions from one of the platy. So, since I was out of ideas about what could be killing the danios (no weird poop seen from them), I thought it couldn't hurt. I did see one of the healthy danios rubbing against the rocks on one occasion as well. So since the water testing seems to be fine (all other paremeters have always been fine, but I didn't test amonia until today), I'm thinking that it has to be some disease Any ideas if/when I should re-treat the tank? The tabs say I CAN repeat two times in 48 hours, but I don't know how to tell if I need to??

Thanks,
Jay

 

[jaimeg]

Just did some more research on platies and discovered that this particular fish is pregnant! Suprise, suprise! Maybe that is why she's been hiding for the last several weeks?? She seems fine now and has quit sitting at the bubbles. I did see one fry in the water...about 1/2 a second before it was eaten by a danio.

 

[WILDER]

Can you post full stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate, and ph.
Size of tank in gallons or litres.
How many fish and which type.
The flicking is due to poor water quality to parasites have to look at water quality first.
Any grains of salt or dusting on the fish.
Check the gill area to see if they are pale with excess mucas, or red and inflamed.

 

[jaimeg]

Hi Wilder...you helped me a ton on these danios about 2 days ago. I had the post about the danios dying one after the other. Well, the 4th fish died today. (The whole story is very long and detailed in that post) So I bit the bullet and hit the stores to get the rest of the supplies I thought I should have...$50 more dollars...ugh! Amonia meter, aeration kit, parasite tabs by Jungle, and amonia removing tabs (just in case). Quick recap...2 cories, 3 dwarf platy, and now 2 zebra danios (down from 6). 10 US gallons, Amonia 0 (it is hard to trust the meter, I'm finding, but that is what is says, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 20ppm, and wow...it says pH up to 8.4 (from 7.2 the other day). Could that be from the parasite tab or peas I've added today?? Anyway, I just saw the zebra danio rubbing on the rocks again. BTW, none of the ones that died did this that I ever saw. But, according to the way things have been going, since the fish died today, anther will start acting weird today...it is very frustrating...

Thanks again,,

I' m thinking I should add another parasite tab tomorrow or Friday?? I'm worried about the cories, aren't they sensitive to that stuff? (no hospital tank....I know, I know, but I don't have one)

Thanks,

 

[WILDER]

Don't like that swing in ph, would of expected the ph to go down rather than up with meds.
What your tap ph to tank.

 

[jaimeg]

Whew...false alarm...retested at 7.2. I had let the strip set for several minutes before looking at the strip for the pH. Checked at 30 seconds (per the instructions) and it was back to 7.2. And got into better light.

 

[WILDER]

That ok then, though liquid test kits are the best more accurate.