Karen B. Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 @Cory Could you help me please? Greetings My 5 guppies in my 10 gallons had gill flukes. I treated them with the trio meds and they stopped flashing. After a week (yesterday) I did a 40% wc/syphoned, removed my plastic decor and replaced it with real plants. I fed them a little bit of North fin fry food. I have a HOB filter with a presponge filter and a aquarium coop air sponge filter (I only squeeze a little bit the presponge filter yesterday in aquarium water because it was gross) This morning when I woke my guppy, one was swimming vertically with its head up. 1 was laying on the bottom breathing rapidly, one was swimming around bumping into everything as if blind and breathing fast. I wonder if I startled them because I did wake them 6 hours earlier. Now they are swimming, sometimes the 5 of them together but they are agressive and bumping into each other. Some still breathing fast. My fry is ok, so is my snail. 2 of my fishes had long stringny poop and there is a lot of poop laying around in the aquarium. My pH dropped from 7.4 to 6.8-7 Nitrate are between 10-20 (I dosed aquarium coop easy green) Nitrite 0 Ammonia is .25ppm I will do a 25% wc, use prime and stability but I am wondering what is happening? Did I crash my cycle? Should I redose for internal parasite (which one? Paracleasne or Maracyn?) Could I have overdosed with prime/stability? I use aquarium long gloves and I washed/disinfected them 3 days ago with bleach. Some bleach solution got inside the gloves but I turned it upside down/rinced it in prime treated water, let it entirely dry... could I have poisoned my fish? Am kinda lost. Sorry for the long message. What should I do next beside wc and panicking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Ammonia spike that cause it you need to do small water change everyday until you ammonia level back down to 0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen B. Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 1 minute ago, Colu said: Ammonia spike that cause it you need to do small water change everyday until you ammonia level back down to 0 Thank you. Just did a 40% one. Will do one again tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Does your PH normally move around? Have you checked your KH and GH levels? I would first make sure everything is ok with your cycle/water chemistry before treating with more meds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen B. Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 Just now, H.K.Luterman said: Does your PH normally move around? Have you checked your KH and GH levels? I would first make sure everything is ok with your cycle/water chemistry before treating with more meds. pH is usually around 7.6 or 7.8. Gh is 9, Kh is 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 I'm not an expert by ANY means, but your Kh seems a little low. Have you tried adding anything to your water to help buffer it? Typically a good solution is adding a little mesh bag or crushed coral into your filter. Buffering your Kh will keep your Ph from moving around. I would keep monitoring your cycle every day for the next few days, and do water changes if any ammonia/nitrite is present. See if that helps the symptoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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