One of my peacock bass is breathing so fast and gasping for air on water surface, it is definantly abnormal, what should I do to treat this problem?
Gasping for air
- Thread starter Dominator
- Start date
eh, is there a lot of aeration in the tank? how are the water parameters? No body else is doing this?
can you give a little more info about the tank, temp, etc. it would be alot easier to give accurate advice then. but without knowing anything except that its breathing hard at the top, id say put in some airstones, make sure your filters are working correctly and do a water change, then if it is still happening give more details
water is crystal clear, I do water change once a week, twice this week. The water temperature is 82F stable. Maybe the water is too warm? I just unplugged the heater. The other peacock acts just as normal.
Both peacock 2"-3", 75g, eHeim 2215 canister filter, jager eHeim 200w heater, and 3" parrot 5" carpintis with them.
Both peacock 2"-3", 75g, eHeim 2215 canister filter, jager eHeim 200w heater, and 3" parrot 5" carpintis with them.
NOOOOOOOO plug the heater back. 82* is fine. do you have air stones in the tank? just because your water is crystal clear doesn't mean its perfect. what are you nitrates/nitrites/ammonia levels? how much water do you change with each WC? what's your filtration? sounds like you just need to add more aeration into the tank.
+1^^^^or if you are feeding live possable parisite.IEther way clean water and higher temp with good aration++++++ado124;4031436; said:
I feed non-live, ya i am thinking its caused by the lack of oxygen, and no i don't have air stone in there.
Just to give an Idea I have six bass in a 70 growout cannister pushes 380 gph and two power heads at 150 gph one powerhead with the air full on and the bass love it!!!Dominator;4031511; said:
wow that tremendously boosts your electricity fee. I already added an airstone to the tank and my peacock bass doesn't look right(I can grab it with 2 fingers), I believe it will die within 24 hrs.HULON;4031523; said: