TW
Sun Jul 08, 2007, 02:04 PM
Hi, I'm not sure if one of my discus is sick or not.
The discus are new to my well established tank & I am partway through a precautionary worm treatment. The treatment I'm following is Week 1: Big L, Weeks 2 & 3: prazzi, Week 4: Big L
I am in day 4 of week 3. Initially all seemed to be going well, even though the only food they would take was blood worm. To try & correct that, I made up a batch of beef heart mix (from one of the stickys) and withdrew the blood worm. At 1st, only one took the beef heart - but now all take it, except for the one I'm concerned about. He has not tried it and has taken to mainly hanging around at the back of the tank. Tonight, I decided I had better offer the blood worm. He did come to the feeding corner - but only hung out behind the others. He half heartedly ate maybe 2 blood worms & then left the feeding area while the others were still pigging out.
There's no white poo that I've seen. Mind you, I have not actually seen his poo at all. From what I can tell, his colour has not changed at all.
I don't have a quarantine tank setup to put him in. I could set up a hospital tank, using water from this tank & putting some of the filter media from this tank into a filter for that one - but would this be signing his death warrant??? The tank they are in is pH controlled by C02 & ph is set at 6.6pH. Water out of my tank is 7.5 minimum. Of course I can play around with pH and I have Seachem Acid Regulator which would probably do the job - but don't these products just 'cause unstable pH???
If I did move him, how should I treat him. Should I give him his final treatment of Big L, or should be doing something different for him.
Although I worry about moving him & signing his death warrant by doing so, I also worry about what effect it may have on my other discuss if I leave him there.
Any suggestions on what I should do?
The discus are new to my well established tank & I am partway through a precautionary worm treatment. The treatment I'm following is Week 1: Big L, Weeks 2 & 3: prazzi, Week 4: Big L
I am in day 4 of week 3. Initially all seemed to be going well, even though the only food they would take was blood worm. To try & correct that, I made up a batch of beef heart mix (from one of the stickys) and withdrew the blood worm. At 1st, only one took the beef heart - but now all take it, except for the one I'm concerned about. He has not tried it and has taken to mainly hanging around at the back of the tank. Tonight, I decided I had better offer the blood worm. He did come to the feeding corner - but only hung out behind the others. He half heartedly ate maybe 2 blood worms & then left the feeding area while the others were still pigging out.
There's no white poo that I've seen. Mind you, I have not actually seen his poo at all. From what I can tell, his colour has not changed at all.
I don't have a quarantine tank setup to put him in. I could set up a hospital tank, using water from this tank & putting some of the filter media from this tank into a filter for that one - but would this be signing his death warrant??? The tank they are in is pH controlled by C02 & ph is set at 6.6pH. Water out of my tank is 7.5 minimum. Of course I can play around with pH and I have Seachem Acid Regulator which would probably do the job - but don't these products just 'cause unstable pH???
If I did move him, how should I treat him. Should I give him his final treatment of Big L, or should be doing something different for him.
Although I worry about moving him & signing his death warrant by doing so, I also worry about what effect it may have on my other discuss if I leave him there.
Any suggestions on what I should do?