The male ram I had in quarantine because of the big pink bubble ont he side of his head that he got after his girlfriend tried to eat his eye out just died.
I had him in a 10g with a uv sterlizer and force fed him some First Bites for a few days. I does the tank with Ick Attack to stop his injury from fungusing, but it started fungusing anyway.
He started getting much better and was swimming around and eating regular food again after about a week. he woudl greet me at the tank when he saw me and was in general getting to be his old self again.
I dosed the tank with melafix to see if that would help heal his wound and stop the fungus. He died within an hour of dosing the tank.
Would he have died anyway with such a bad injury/infection? Was it false hope that he was actually getting better and woudl make it? Did the melafix kill him? I was going to give him a meth blue bath to take care of the fungus and he really liked the blue water, but thought the mellafix woudl be better than disturbing him and aggravating his injury by catching him and putting him in the speciman container.
My other male ram also died, he was in teh 20g with his girlfriend and they both turned pale and he was hiding, they he started hangign out at the top of the tank. I did water changes and gave the tank a good gravel vaccuming and put in a corner filter to help clear floating debris. The tank cleared up nicely and he stopped hanging out at the top of the tank, but went back to hiding at the bottom. He then died shortly after the last water change. At first I though maybe the rocks in the tank had started leeching something and tested the water. PH was at 7.8, the tank used to be at 6.8. The 40g planted still had the ph at 7.2 and both tanks get similiar maintenace and sue the same treated tap water. Anyway, to make a long story short, I discovered my tap water which used to be slightly acidic to neutral now is at 7.8.
Is 7.8 too high for the rams? Did that kill him? Could this be the cause of my cories fin and tails getting ragged in that tank? Will my new hard alkaline water kill my other fish and plants that are used to and need soft slightly acidic water? Will RO and RO Right be needed?
I had him in a 10g with a uv sterlizer and force fed him some First Bites for a few days. I does the tank with Ick Attack to stop his injury from fungusing, but it started fungusing anyway.
He started getting much better and was swimming around and eating regular food again after about a week. he woudl greet me at the tank when he saw me and was in general getting to be his old self again.
I dosed the tank with melafix to see if that would help heal his wound and stop the fungus. He died within an hour of dosing the tank.
Would he have died anyway with such a bad injury/infection? Was it false hope that he was actually getting better and woudl make it? Did the melafix kill him? I was going to give him a meth blue bath to take care of the fungus and he really liked the blue water, but thought the mellafix woudl be better than disturbing him and aggravating his injury by catching him and putting him in the speciman container.
My other male ram also died, he was in teh 20g with his girlfriend and they both turned pale and he was hiding, they he started hangign out at the top of the tank. I did water changes and gave the tank a good gravel vaccuming and put in a corner filter to help clear floating debris. The tank cleared up nicely and he stopped hanging out at the top of the tank, but went back to hiding at the bottom. He then died shortly after the last water change. At first I though maybe the rocks in the tank had started leeching something and tested the water. PH was at 7.8, the tank used to be at 6.8. The 40g planted still had the ph at 7.2 and both tanks get similiar maintenace and sue the same treated tap water. Anyway, to make a long story short, I discovered my tap water which used to be slightly acidic to neutral now is at 7.8.
Is 7.8 too high for the rams? Did that kill him? Could this be the cause of my cories fin and tails getting ragged in that tank? Will my new hard alkaline water kill my other fish and plants that are used to and need soft slightly acidic water? Will RO and RO Right be needed?
