Fish are flashing

[Noddy]

Flashing is also a symptom of too much nitrates.
No direct signs on the outside of the fish.
But the fish usually don't stop, they keep at it.
Could your test be wrong?
Do you use a liquid test?

 

[Freshwater Tim]

Flashing is also a symptom of too much nitrates.
No direct signs on the outside of the fish.
But the fish usually don't stop, they keep at it.
Could your test be wrong?
Do you use a liquid test?

I have two different brands of liquid tests....I was thinking that they may be faulty...so today I took a sample of the water to my LFS and everything passed with flying colors....so I don't know

 

[jerzyperson]

man im stumped on this one, my goldfish do this but have stopped, i have no clue what to say that lupin or someone else hasn't already told you...

 

[Freshwater Tim]

man im stumped on this one, my goldfish do this but have stopped, i have no clue what to say that lupin or someone else hasn't already told you...

I do believe it is flukes (at least I hope)......treating with Prazipro....salt and heat.....just gave them a bit of food and everyone ate.....EXCEPT THE ARO

 

[Lupin]

Tim, what food did you use? Try adding garlic. This may actually persuade your fish to eat. Garlic irritates the parasites and may be a welcome relief for every of your fish.

 

[Freshwater Tim]

Tim, what food did you use? Try adding garlic. This may actually persuade your fish to eat. Garlic irritates the parasites and may be a welcome relief for every of your fish.

The Aro mostly eats the Hikari food sticks and Massivore pellets. I have no "dry" garlic...only the stuff in the jar in the fridge. Will this do? Do I just "coat" the pellets or do I mince it all up into a paste?
Never done this before.

 

[Lupin]

I meant liquid garlic or garlic juice.

 

[spiff]

If I was in that situation, I would make a list of all the different medications available and then sort them by the likelyhood of them dealing with your symptoms. Then I would try them all, one by one, letting each dosing run its course and doing water changes before trying the next chemical.

Hopefully, you'll eventually hit the right med for the problem. If one treatment seemed to help but not totally clear it up and you reach the end of the list... I would go back to that one and perhaps increase the dose a bit.

 

[indiana.dutton]

You can smash a garlic clove with the flat of a knife on a cutting board and then angle it so that the juices flow onto a plate that you can put the food sticks in.

 

[Freshwater Tim]

I have minced garlic in the fridge, so this AM I took 5 or so Hikari food sticks and put a bit of the garlic juice in a bowl, soaked the sticks in the juice, and put them one at a time in the tank, in front of the Aro. He just kept swimming, didn't even look at them. Everyone else came up to eat them, but the Aro showed no interest.