So, I had the eye problem with my female Angelfish, who by the way is back in the big tank, and her eye looks no better (maybe slightly worse but her issue may be related to this thread).
Now both my female bosemanis are ill. Only the females. One is hovering either in a corner (not eating) and the other has what looks like a whitish peeling film over her body and fins. She is swimming around at the top of the tank, sometimes in circles. She eats a little. Both look dazed and confused.....this has been all week and I see no red patches or ulcers. Just this white haze.
When I checked my water parameters, most were good: pH 7.0, no Ammonia, no nitrites. However, nitrates were what I consider high.... looked to me in the 50-80 range. Now I do 25% water changes every week and nitrates are always 5ppm, so I asked myself what was different. Well, I shut down my daughters tank and moved all her fish to my 90 gallon. I guess I added 8 fish (2 glowfish tetras, 3 cardinal tetras, and 3 glowfish danios. These fish came from an established tank, (no disease ever). Maybe my tank did a mini cycle, but all the other fish in my 90gal are ok (except for that Angelfish with the eye problem). The other thing different is that I have been dosing my tank with flourish and excel because my plants were looking icky. Could dosing the tank with ferts raise the nitrates and could this be the problem?
I'm also afraid it might be something else........ So I have been doing water changes every day this week. I swear, I think I have done a 100% water change by now and the nitrates have come down to maybe 10ppm (so hard to read that card). I even tested my tap water and it's 5ppm, so it's not the tap.
What do you think? Slimecoat or disease?
Now both my female bosemanis are ill. Only the females. One is hovering either in a corner (not eating) and the other has what looks like a whitish peeling film over her body and fins. She is swimming around at the top of the tank, sometimes in circles. She eats a little. Both look dazed and confused.....this has been all week and I see no red patches or ulcers. Just this white haze.
When I checked my water parameters, most were good: pH 7.0, no Ammonia, no nitrites. However, nitrates were what I consider high.... looked to me in the 50-80 range. Now I do 25% water changes every week and nitrates are always 5ppm, so I asked myself what was different. Well, I shut down my daughters tank and moved all her fish to my 90 gallon. I guess I added 8 fish (2 glowfish tetras, 3 cardinal tetras, and 3 glowfish danios. These fish came from an established tank, (no disease ever). Maybe my tank did a mini cycle, but all the other fish in my 90gal are ok (except for that Angelfish with the eye problem). The other thing different is that I have been dosing my tank with flourish and excel because my plants were looking icky. Could dosing the tank with ferts raise the nitrates and could this be the problem?
I'm also afraid it might be something else........ So I have been doing water changes every day this week. I swear, I think I have done a 100% water change by now and the nitrates have come down to maybe 10ppm (so hard to read that card). I even tested my tap water and it's 5ppm, so it's not the tap.
What do you think? Slimecoat or disease?
