I have a 13 year old 9" black ghost knife fish. He has been acting odd today. He is in a low tech heavily planted tank with moss, anubias and java ferns that he shares with 7 corydoras. He has his own tube and has lots of hiding places.
The pH is fairly low for this aquarium @ 6.2, but I do add Equilibrium and have some shells in the Eheim Ecco filter
78-80 degrees temp
Add weekly ferts for the plants(Kno3, Equlibrium, etc.)
Yesterday I did a monthly 50% water change with the usual Seachem Prime added. Today he tried to jump out of the aquarium and hit his head on the glass top and looks visibly distraught. Since he seemed so unhappy I changed another 25% today. Now he is hovering in the middle of the aquarium(which he never does) and is looking generally disturbed by any plant that touches him. I dropped in a little food but he seems uninterested. Other than acting strange his body looks healthy with no lesions. They cories seem perfectly happy.
I have been prepping a much larger aquarium for him to move in to... I hope he gets better as I am quite attached to him!
The pH is fairly low for this aquarium @ 6.2, but I do add Equilibrium and have some shells in the Eheim Ecco filter
78-80 degrees temp
Add weekly ferts for the plants(Kno3, Equlibrium, etc.)
Yesterday I did a monthly 50% water change with the usual Seachem Prime added. Today he tried to jump out of the aquarium and hit his head on the glass top and looks visibly distraught. Since he seemed so unhappy I changed another 25% today. Now he is hovering in the middle of the aquarium(which he never does) and is looking generally disturbed by any plant that touches him. I dropped in a little food but he seems uninterested. Other than acting strange his body looks healthy with no lesions. They cories seem perfectly happy.
I have been prepping a much larger aquarium for him to move in to... I hope he gets better as I am quite attached to him!