I just wanted to thank you all again for helping me out answering all of my text messages today and yesterday (I know I can get annoying) lol.
For those of you who don't know I have had a huge ammonia spike in my tank these last couple of days and my male motoro has some severe ammonia burns as well as white spotting on his disk. Refusing food and is swimming very erratically tonight as well now. Will sit in one spot breathing heavily then will fly around the tank and settle back down at the bottom. Lifts the sides of his disk and almost spazzes out then settles down again too.
When I cleaned out my FX5 tonight I was discussed to see how much build up was in there. I have always cleaned it out about every 4 months or so. I added a Fluval 405 2 weeks ago and figured it had enough BB that I could clean out my FX5. Opened up my FX5 and this is what I saw...
I ran my fingers in my hosing and the build up was unbelievable to say the least.
What confuses me is that my marble seems unaffected but my male is struggling as we speak. I have added Prime to help with the existing ammonia and performed about a 40% water change after cleaning out the FX5. Will continue with large water changes daily. Tank is currently at 82 and my heater doesn't seem to be capable of getting it any higher.
I'm skeptical about adding salt. Don't want to throw too much in there at once or try too many things in one night.
For those of you who don't know I have had a huge ammonia spike in my tank these last couple of days and my male motoro has some severe ammonia burns as well as white spotting on his disk. Refusing food and is swimming very erratically tonight as well now. Will sit in one spot breathing heavily then will fly around the tank and settle back down at the bottom. Lifts the sides of his disk and almost spazzes out then settles down again too.
When I cleaned out my FX5 tonight I was discussed to see how much build up was in there. I have always cleaned it out about every 4 months or so. I added a Fluval 405 2 weeks ago and figured it had enough BB that I could clean out my FX5. Opened up my FX5 and this is what I saw...
I ran my fingers in my hosing and the build up was unbelievable to say the least.
What confuses me is that my marble seems unaffected but my male is struggling as we speak. I have added Prime to help with the existing ammonia and performed about a 40% water change after cleaning out the FX5. Will continue with large water changes daily. Tank is currently at 82 and my heater doesn't seem to be capable of getting it any higher.
I'm skeptical about adding salt. Don't want to throw too much in there at once or try too many things in one night.
