Well...looks like I jinxed Spartan. :swear:
He has been recovering nicely from the previous incident
see here
I noticed, the other day (10/14/09), that he was looking particulary grumpy and very clamped...
No flashing
Normal breathing
Just sitting...like a grumpy 5 year old with crossed arms...
Upon further inspection, it looks like he either has a very thick slime coat or a touch of fungus...hard to tell, and I can't get a good photo of it. So I did an immediate 75% water change and added salt back into the mix. (since he was in "recovery" I had been weaning him off of salt by not adding it back after water changes...so he should have been back to fresh water by now)
I also added a heater to the tank, as it has been very cold here and his water temp was down in the 50's...I have been gradually raising it...after 2 days it is now up to about 65º (on my way to 70's)
He already went 2 rounds with Maricyn II (see previous post) and I don't really want to subject him to that again if I don't have to. The other med option, that I haven't tried yet, are some Jungle Fungus tabs. I think I'll wait and see how the salt works first though. I'm thinking that he wasn't quite recovered enough and got a bit of a secondary infection going.
Hospital water checks out fine
ammonia = zip
nitrite = zilch
nitrate = 5ppm
pH = approx 7.8 ish
the one thing that changed was my LFS was out of stock on Prime ...so I had to use Aqueon water conditioner...which sucks IMHO (can you say foamy bubbles?)
They are all now back on Prime and I squirted all of the Crockueon down the toilet...condition THAT!:silly:
Just thought I'd update and see if anyone had any other thoughts/suggestions to add to my mix?
***If you don't want to read all of my run-on sentences, commas and ellipsis, it boils down to this.
-Water is fine
-Common Goldie
-Clamped fins (after 2 weeks of good recovery)
-Thick Slime Coat or Fungus (maybe)
-Back on salt water
-Try the Jungle fungus tabs (anti bacterial)?
-Other suggestions?
Thanks people!
(can you tell I'm bored at work on a Friday?)
He has been recovering nicely from the previous incident
see here
I noticed, the other day (10/14/09), that he was looking particulary grumpy and very clamped...
No flashing
Normal breathing
Just sitting...like a grumpy 5 year old with crossed arms...
Upon further inspection, it looks like he either has a very thick slime coat or a touch of fungus...hard to tell, and I can't get a good photo of it. So I did an immediate 75% water change and added salt back into the mix. (since he was in "recovery" I had been weaning him off of salt by not adding it back after water changes...so he should have been back to fresh water by now)
I also added a heater to the tank, as it has been very cold here and his water temp was down in the 50's...I have been gradually raising it...after 2 days it is now up to about 65º (on my way to 70's)
He already went 2 rounds with Maricyn II (see previous post) and I don't really want to subject him to that again if I don't have to. The other med option, that I haven't tried yet, are some Jungle Fungus tabs. I think I'll wait and see how the salt works first though. I'm thinking that he wasn't quite recovered enough and got a bit of a secondary infection going.
Hospital water checks out fine
ammonia = zip
nitrite = zilch
nitrate = 5ppm
pH = approx 7.8 ish
the one thing that changed was my LFS was out of stock on Prime ...so I had to use Aqueon water conditioner...which sucks IMHO (can you say foamy bubbles?)
They are all now back on Prime and I squirted all of the Crockueon down the toilet...condition THAT!:silly:
Just thought I'd update and see if anyone had any other thoughts/suggestions to add to my mix?
***If you don't want to read all of my run-on sentences, commas and ellipsis, it boils down to this.
-Water is fine
-Common Goldie
-Clamped fins (after 2 weeks of good recovery)
-Thick Slime Coat or Fungus (maybe)
-Back on salt water
-Try the Jungle fungus tabs (anti bacterial)?
-Other suggestions?
Thanks people!
(can you tell I'm bored at work on a Friday?)