Good morning.
My chocolate oranda seems to have made a recovery of sorts. (He is no longer looking as if he is on his final breath). He still has red streaks on his tail and body. The big patches of red which originally looked like ulcers are gone. He does have a bit of white on his head which seems to be getting smaller.
On Wednesday, he was swimming around, eating, he's starting to look glimmery again. Water tested bright yellow for nitrate (TetraTest 0)
On Thursday, I vacuumed the tank to remove poop/fish food particles; about a 20% water change. No substrate.
Later that day and into Friday, he was just hanging at the top of the tank in one corner. Tested the water, the nitrate was 3.0 mg/l! I changed 25% water again. Also, I removed the filter which had been in the tank and put in a new filter (Retested a few hours later; 1.5 mg/l changed again.
He's still up in the corner.
Why am I have a problem? There isn't anything in the tank except the fish.
Would he be better off going back to the big tank? I also think he could be depressed being by himself for nearly two weeks.
My chocolate oranda seems to have made a recovery of sorts. (He is no longer looking as if he is on his final breath). He still has red streaks on his tail and body. The big patches of red which originally looked like ulcers are gone. He does have a bit of white on his head which seems to be getting smaller.
On Wednesday, he was swimming around, eating, he's starting to look glimmery again. Water tested bright yellow for nitrate (TetraTest 0)
On Thursday, I vacuumed the tank to remove poop/fish food particles; about a 20% water change. No substrate.
Later that day and into Friday, he was just hanging at the top of the tank in one corner. Tested the water, the nitrate was 3.0 mg/l! I changed 25% water again. Also, I removed the filter which had been in the tank and put in a new filter (Retested a few hours later; 1.5 mg/l changed again.
He's still up in the corner.
Why am I have a problem? There isn't anything in the tank except the fish.
Would he be better off going back to the big tank? I also think he could be depressed being by himself for nearly two weeks.
