help :( blue ram swimming weird :(!

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well more like she is jsut sitting on the bottom not doing anything :(!

she is normaly my most active fish and swims around like crazy and eats all the time. she is a hog for food.

i dont have any other tanks here at college, so she has to stay there. what should i do?!?!


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HELP! please!
 
Did you quarantine the male? It could have infected her with something that it picked up at the LFS. Is she eating?

I'd bump my temperature a few degrees to start with. I keep my rams at 84 - 85F.

How is the new ram acting? Also, are you sure nitrates are at 0? If you have no ammonia and no nitrite (aka, the tank is fully cycled) then you should have some sort of nitrate reading, even if it's very small. The only exception would be if you had a really lightly-stocked tank and you had just done a major water change or you have tons of live plants.
 
ryansmith83;5043382; said:
How is the new ram acting? Also, are you sure nitrates are at 0? If you have no ammonia and no nitrite (aka, the tank is fully cycled) then you should have some sort of nitrate reading, even if it's very small. The only exception would be if you had a really lightly-stocked tank and you had just done a major water change or you have tons of live plants.
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It looks like a healthy planted tank so undetectable Nitrates are a possibility, the small amount of waste those small fish produce could be used up by plants fairly quick. the anacharis and hornwort in the picture are two of the most efficient nitrate absorbing aquatic plants.
 
ryansmith83;5043382; said:
Did you quarantine the male? It could have infected her with something that it picked up at the LFS. Is she eating?

I'd bump my temperature a few degrees to start with. I keep my rams at 84 - 85F.

How is the new ram acting? Also, are you sure nitrates are at 0? If you have no ammonia and no nitrite (aka, the tank is fully cycled) then you should have some sort of nitrate reading, even if it's very small. The only exception would be if you had a really lightly-stocked tank and you had just done a major water change or you have tons of live plants.
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No i did not. but i havnt done that with any of them (due to not having a quarantine tank at school :/ )

and the water was at 84, but my roommate leaves the window open, so it cools down a little every now and then

and its relatively lightly stocked. and i have 2 bushel things of hornwart, about to make it around 6. and im running peace lilly's in the HOB

cacichlids;5043404; said:
It looks like a healthy planted tank so undetectable Nitrates are a possibility, the small amount of waste those small fish produce could be used up by plants fairly quick. the anacharis and hornwort in the picture are two of the most efficient nitrate absorbing aquatic plants.
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it is. all my plants are GROWING FAST! and there are 4 neon tetras, 2 blue rams, 5 black skirt tetras, 2 glofish, and 1 common pleco.

the common will be going in my 125 this summer, i saved him from irresponsible college students
 
Dropsy is a bacterial infection that causes a swollen round belly, it is not a disease per se but a symptom that something else is wrong - i.e. bad water quality, parasites, tuberculosis, constipation, impacted eggs (female that produces eggs but they get stuck inside her) etc but it basically can be anything, it's very hard to treat unless you know the exact cause and usually fish end up dying before you figure it out, so even if we had noticed it before it wouldn't have made a difference.

Thats what it looks like to me.
 
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