Hello everyone,
So to start off, i'll give an overview of my setup. I have a 60g glass tank with a divider in the middle, an air pump feeding through a sponge filter, an aquatop pf-600 filter on one side with no filtration(just to give flow on this side of the divider), and an aquaclear 100g filter with 6 months old carbon, sponge, and bio. My ammonia reads normal range and my ph is generally around 7.0 after a water change and 7.5 right before my weekly water change. The temperature of my tank is 86degrees on one side and 80 on the other. I have a male flowerhorn about 7in long on one side and a female jaguar 4in on the other side. Now on to my fish:
My male flowerhorn has been sick many times in the past and I have always treated him with the standard epsom soaked pellet solution. A few weeks ago, he got very sick and his bodysize and kok shrunk massively. I was forced to force feed him epsom solution until he got better. I used to feed him sumo red and bio-gold but now he doesn't eat them so I am having to feed him the only other thing I have, humpy head. After force feeding him and returning him to acceptable conditions, I continued to feed him soaked pellets for 5 days. Again now, he is showing signs of sickness by scratching himself against me heater and the ground, random spasms of his mouth and fins, but no white poop. I have tried cleaning my tank but when I did, I was unable to do a 100% water change because I couldn't find anyone to help me move the tank to fully empty and clean but I did a 90-95% water change and hoped my fish would remain healthy.
I normally change my water 10 gallons once a week. I used Seachem Prime and add some API aquarium salt. I clean almost all of the poop because I have no gravel in my tank. I mainly want to know the most efficient way to clean a tank. I know that in the past I never used to have algae build up inside my tank but recently I have, but my levels are the same as before. Could it be from the bio and carbon not being replaced? I was recommended to change those only around once a year. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
So to start off, i'll give an overview of my setup. I have a 60g glass tank with a divider in the middle, an air pump feeding through a sponge filter, an aquatop pf-600 filter on one side with no filtration(just to give flow on this side of the divider), and an aquaclear 100g filter with 6 months old carbon, sponge, and bio. My ammonia reads normal range and my ph is generally around 7.0 after a water change and 7.5 right before my weekly water change. The temperature of my tank is 86degrees on one side and 80 on the other. I have a male flowerhorn about 7in long on one side and a female jaguar 4in on the other side. Now on to my fish:
My male flowerhorn has been sick many times in the past and I have always treated him with the standard epsom soaked pellet solution. A few weeks ago, he got very sick and his bodysize and kok shrunk massively. I was forced to force feed him epsom solution until he got better. I used to feed him sumo red and bio-gold but now he doesn't eat them so I am having to feed him the only other thing I have, humpy head. After force feeding him and returning him to acceptable conditions, I continued to feed him soaked pellets for 5 days. Again now, he is showing signs of sickness by scratching himself against me heater and the ground, random spasms of his mouth and fins, but no white poop. I have tried cleaning my tank but when I did, I was unable to do a 100% water change because I couldn't find anyone to help me move the tank to fully empty and clean but I did a 90-95% water change and hoped my fish would remain healthy.
I normally change my water 10 gallons once a week. I used Seachem Prime and add some API aquarium salt. I clean almost all of the poop because I have no gravel in my tank. I mainly want to know the most efficient way to clean a tank. I know that in the past I never used to have algae build up inside my tank but recently I have, but my levels are the same as before. Could it be from the bio and carbon not being replaced? I was recommended to change those only around once a year. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
