Are they just enjoying the shower?

[hellsbells]

Hi all,

Am halfway through a whitespot (i think) outbreak and since upping temp and putting an airstone ring in the bn's seem attracted to the bubbles and spend alot of time on the glass next to it.
Now the bubbles keep dislodging my extra little stingray filter and the jet ends up hitting the glass above the water line. Now i'm finding this!!!!!

They are above the water line in the spray of water. Even nudging each other out the way.

Do they just enjoy a jacuzzi ??

Helen

 

[bigbird]

they love oxygenated water and fast flowing as well. Maybe you need more oxygen in the water. How much water and how ofther do you do the water change ? cheers jk :thumbup:

 

[Stan]

I once had some ottos that would swim up the spillway on a hob filter, they seemed to really enjoy the flow passing over them.

 

[Brengun]

Check the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels. The whitespot meds might have killed the tank bacteria and the tank is in a cycle.

 

[froggie]

I've had a similar experience as well, unfortunately the BN did not make it pass the ick treatment

 

[Joby]

They are after the oxygen I would say and enjoying whats coming from the extra flow there I agree with Bengun I would check the levels in your tank :yes:

 

[zeebo]

hi Hellen,
hope you get this underfoot soon. Are you using a med with blue meth as D-MAC mentioned in your other thread?

best luck with the treatment,
Georgie

 

[ccole]

hey there my bn's dont go near the bubbles from airstone unless they are after oxygen,so totally agree with people about medication taking oxygen out... i lost a tank of pleco's to a bad reduction of oxygen within hours of putting the medication in.... unfortantly it was over night so didnt see the change in behaviour to save them.

My corys always swim in the bubbles no matter what and my rusty plec sticks his nose in the water out let pipe of one of my externals, so much so his nose is out of the main water but in the running water!

i hope they all do well
good luck
respect
cc

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Maybe you need more oxygen in the water & Check the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels. The whitespot meds might have killed the tank bacteria and the tank is in a cycle.

That would be my suggestion as well. If you have access to some other filter material (from another cycled tank?), I'd put it in the filter. Other wise you need to keep changing the water every day, if you can I'd change 50%.

If you have plants they wil drastically reduce the levels of NH3, NO2 and NO3. Floating plants are very good, pm me if you want some Frogbit etc.

Cheers Darrel

 

[hellsbells]

Hi all,

Thanks for your concerns, Fish are all ok even the babies. No spots seen. Am on the 7th day of using eSHa Exit at half dose. Need to get some more anmonia tests. Nitrate is at 40 Nitrite 0 but ph seems higher that usual. Will do a 40% water change this evening as I have been trying to delay it as not to dilute the medication to much. Will put PH Down in the change. The only other filter media I have is in a rbp tank he/she needs it too much themselves.

Fingers crossed
Helen

PS Whats Frogbit Darrel?

 

[Irene0100]

trying to escape?

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Whats Frogbit Darrel?

It is a floating plant "Amazon Frogbit" (Limnobium laevigatum). The advantage of floaters is they have access to atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), allowing them to convert more ammonia/nitrite/nitrate (collected from the water by the submerged roots) into plant material when their leaves are in the light and photosynthesising.

There are other floaters you can use, but Frogbit is probably the most popular, and Duckweed (Lemna minor) the least, but they all do the same job.

Frogbit (Limnobium laevigatum)

Water Fern (Salvinia)

Nile Cabbage (Pistia stratiotes)

cheers Darrel