Please help urgent!!!

ctvu ... don't buy a plant ... you will be mucking around with it and the driftwood too much ... will give additonal stress.

Keep temp const, above 32 degrees ... keep the tank dark and try to avoid traffic in front of it.

Regular water changes, if discus too stressed from 50%, then drop to 25% daily. Your good bateria will grow. If ammonia problem ... reduce feeding ... but still feed if they are eating, but not as much.

Even dirty sponge filter might have heaps of good bacteria on it , just rinse it in fish tank water ... pop it back in.

Keep the spirit ! Its heartbreaking I know seeing sick fish, but my attitude is, I am not going to give up until they give up ... it our duty to provide the best conditions for them to recover ... we don't give up on them !!

Sometimes they just have a cold.

Hi Weird

Thans for your advice and support, they seem a bit better now not darting around but still scared and hide in the corner, they still come out for food when I m back off. The ammonia is the same 1.2. Thanks

Today I got Zero reading of ammonia, Nitrite = 0.1, daily 1/3 water change with double dose of ACN, temp 31-32.
I found 1 Ocean green turn very dark and always in corner and not bother to eat.
Please please advise me what I should do next, or just wait for another couple of days and keep doing what I have been doing. Thanks a lot

Ps: the rest of them are Ok

Congrats on the 0 ammonia. I think your discus hopefully will be on their way to recovery. I think the last time I had a discus go dark color was velvet.

Kev or someone else may be able to advise better. After going through such a stressful period, their defenses are weaken and are more susceptible to diseases.

Better to determine what he has before giving wrong treatment.

Hi weird

Thought I'd let u know that the sick fish has started coming out with the group and eating a lot, that is a good news. Thanks for your support and helps, really appreciated. Keep it up

Cheers

Really glad to hear mate !

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thats great news, keep up the w/c though get the fish to put some weight on with water changes and food

greta news :wink:

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Originally Posted by kalebjarrod

thats great news, keep up the w/c though get the fish to put some weight on with water changes and food

greta news :wink:

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Thanks for that. But last night it got shocked again when I did w/c, it was darting so crazy on the surface then it stopped breathing and sank to bottom from the top. I checked this morning it seems OK apprently.
So I think I should get back the routine of w/c to 2 times per week like before. What do you think? or change the water pump since it is too much power. Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

if you are having problem with the power of your pump thier is a new item that i have seen george from G & S using in his display tank

it fits to the end of your outlet pump, it uses the force of the water coming out to gentley rotate the tip, it also has a little sponge on it which clean the surface "Film" out of your tank

maybe that may help, or try a spray bar? don't go backwards in pump size yet. the more water you pump the more you are filtering right?

are you aging your water? if so don't be to stressed about water changes, maybe just do the cahnges a little slower, trying not to bang the tank, or to many splashes etc etc i had to be gentle when my fish first came into the tank. now they dance under the new water as it comes in :wink:

Yes that is what I am trying to do, not to bang the tank very gentle whatever I do or move, I even point the hose to the corner, since they are so sensitive of every thing atm. Anyway thanks for suggestion, I am trying to figure out how to get the flow rate from the pump slow down so that the fish might enjoy the w/c like yours. The spinning thing is a good idea I think I saw one of them at the lfs close to my place.