While looking at my long fin blue eye baby pleco Isabella, I saw that he very tip of her left pectoral fin had a red spot, and the other fin had a faint line on the underside of her right pectoral fin, less then 1/4" long. She is eating and healthy.
I just tested the water, and the params are:
Ammonia- 0ppm
Nitrite- 0ppm
Nitrate~ 40ppm
I just changed 15 gallons (it's a 55 gallon aquarium) yesterday (Wed). And changed 20 gallons probably on last Sunday.
It's moderately planted with lots of live plants, and I only feed once a day, frozen brine shrimp/pellets with veg for the plecos that's removed in the morning
The only thing different is I added a little salt (battling ich) on Wed as well, it was a total of 4tbsp at the most. The water temp is 89-90F right now, to kill the ich and has been since Tuesday prob.
No one else has any signs of rot, everyone actually seems quite happy and active,more so then yesterday, my other female bristlenose has no signs either.
Any ideas what's going on? I figured I should do a water change, but read in the book that my tap water might have had Nitrates added to it by chance?
Should I test my reg tap water as well for nitrates?
Thanks
How should I go about treating miss Izzy, I've had fin rot clear on it's own before, it's def not spread just a tiny itty bit I never would of noticed had I not had my face an inch from the glass to inspect for ich.
I just tested the water, and the params are:
Ammonia- 0ppm
Nitrite- 0ppm
Nitrate~ 40ppm
I just changed 15 gallons (it's a 55 gallon aquarium) yesterday (Wed). And changed 20 gallons probably on last Sunday.
It's moderately planted with lots of live plants, and I only feed once a day, frozen brine shrimp/pellets with veg for the plecos that's removed in the morning
The only thing different is I added a little salt (battling ich) on Wed as well, it was a total of 4tbsp at the most. The water temp is 89-90F right now, to kill the ich and has been since Tuesday prob.
No one else has any signs of rot, everyone actually seems quite happy and active,more so then yesterday, my other female bristlenose has no signs either.
Any ideas what's going on? I figured I should do a water change, but read in the book that my tap water might have had Nitrates added to it by chance?
Should I test my reg tap water as well for nitrates?
Thanks
How should I go about treating miss Izzy, I've had fin rot clear on it's own before, it's def not spread just a tiny itty bit I never would of noticed had I not had my face an inch from the glass to inspect for ich.
