240addiction
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I'm hoping someone can help with my new fish. We have a 65gal tank with a 20gal QT. The regular tank was set up on Jan 1st and the QT was set up early February and just finished cycling, so we were ready for our first fish! We bought our first fish 5 days ago (on a Tuesday) - two Bartlett's Anthias from the LFS. One is bigger and the other is about half the size of the bigger one. We got them home and they seemed ok. That first night they spent most of the night sitting/laying on the bottom of the tank, not really moving around at all. We were quite concerned, but by Wednesday evening, they were eating just fine and swimming around. We started feeding them 3x/day, twice with flake food and once brine shrimp. They were eating really well, looked healthy and happy, swimming in the tank.
Dosed with Prazipro on the Wednesday evening, everything seemed fine that night and on Thursday. On Thursday night with their brine shrimp feeding we added Vita-Chem Marine to their food. Instead of adding the 2-3 drops that you're supposed to add with the feeding, my husband decided to add the tank dosage (1/2 tsp) to their food. I told him that wasn't what the directions said to do, but he thought it would be ok so that's what he fed them. From what we read, you can't overdose with Vita-Chem, but we wanted to include that in this post in case it mattered.
Friday they didn't eat at all. Saturday they were both back to laying on the bottom of the tank, sometimes not always upright. Wouldn't eat at all. Ammonia & Nitrites were at zero when we put them in, Nitrates were at 5ppm. Today we did a water change of 4 gallons (from the display tank-all parameters matched up) because the Nitrates got high between 10-20ppm. During the water change, the smaller of the two fish swam to where we could see him pretty good and his eye is huge and red... like 4 times the size it should be, and he's laying completely on his side. The bigger fish doesn't look great, he's just sitting on the bottom of the tank and swimming around a little. He still won't eat either. What do we do with the fish that's laying on it's side? The problem is that both are in the QT, so if we have to treat him with something, both will have to get treated. Our main tank is ready, but we don't want to put the bigger fish in there yet as he hasn't gone through the whole QT process.
Help!!!
Dosed with Prazipro on the Wednesday evening, everything seemed fine that night and on Thursday. On Thursday night with their brine shrimp feeding we added Vita-Chem Marine to their food. Instead of adding the 2-3 drops that you're supposed to add with the feeding, my husband decided to add the tank dosage (1/2 tsp) to their food. I told him that wasn't what the directions said to do, but he thought it would be ok so that's what he fed them. From what we read, you can't overdose with Vita-Chem, but we wanted to include that in this post in case it mattered.
Friday they didn't eat at all. Saturday they were both back to laying on the bottom of the tank, sometimes not always upright. Wouldn't eat at all. Ammonia & Nitrites were at zero when we put them in, Nitrates were at 5ppm. Today we did a water change of 4 gallons (from the display tank-all parameters matched up) because the Nitrates got high between 10-20ppm. During the water change, the smaller of the two fish swam to where we could see him pretty good and his eye is huge and red... like 4 times the size it should be, and he's laying completely on his side. The bigger fish doesn't look great, he's just sitting on the bottom of the tank and swimming around a little. He still won't eat either. What do we do with the fish that's laying on it's side? The problem is that both are in the QT, so if we have to treat him with something, both will have to get treated. Our main tank is ready, but we don't want to put the bigger fish in there yet as he hasn't gone through the whole QT process.
Help!!!
