Yay 4 New Fish!

[Hawkins]

I got a Juwel Rio 125 recently, and i have decided to have a change of fish in it..

so I bought 2 blue rams and 2 gold balloon rams!

the guy at my LFS suggested i dont put them in first so i have put them in my first tank for now.

one of the blue rams doesnt seem happy - hes breathing really fast and is actually touching the bottom.

water stats are fine, blah blah dont ask.. i did a water change before putting them in

 

[minxfishy]

Rams can be very sensitive to water conditions, particulary nitrAte, not saying yours is high though.

Keep an eye on him, he may just be stressed from the move - but its not a good sign.

 

[Hawkins]

im saying its the move.. i just did a 30% water change =\

water stats are ok. i forget what the nitrate was at but i said "oh this is ok" and jsut tipped it away.

 

[minxfishy]

below 20ppm for Rams if at all possible, myself I do w/c 2 x weekly to keep them low for the rams, I know Tenohfive does this too, as they like pristine water quality.

 

[Hawkins]

I'll do another small waterchange now just to be sure then. Each waterchange I do i take gravel out - as i want to try a different substrate, but am in no rush. I took a few net fulls of gravel out just now and there is loads of crap settled on the glass bottom. It'll do it good to syphon some #### out.

 

[Hawkins]

Ok well when the blue rams were in the bag, one was breathing really heavily through its gills with its mouth constantly open. the other was very calm, i even thought it was dead at one stage!

obviously i didnt know which was normal as i havent had rams before

i got home and put them in, and the one breathing heavy was sinking to the bottom.. i then noticed it had MOUTH FUNGUS! it died a few hours later.. It was too late for me to do anything, even if i noticed it straight away.

Gonna try and get another tomorrow

 

[minxfishy]

Did you quarantine the other?