It's a bit of a sad subject for my second post, but I really need as much advice and information as I can get on this.
I added an albino BN to my 80G goldfish tank about two months ago. He was doing great for the first month, active if a bit shy (he adopted a 'cave' formed between two pieces of mopani driftwood). I did end up having to treat the tank for flukes while he was in it, and made the mistake of adding some salt at %0.1 as usual along with prazi pro. Upon finding out that plecos often do not do well with salt (I should have looked it up before hand, I realize), I stoped and did another %50 to reduce the saltyness, and only treated with prazi from then on.
This was a while ago, and he still was doing well. But about a week ago he started to get less active during the day, and seemed to hang out around the filter. I assumed he was becoming more nocturnal, as he otherwised seemed fine and was still eating. My quarentine tank was currently occupied with a small ryukin who did need some salt treatment, and I did not want to move him in there.
However, this morning he was sitting listless on the bottom, seemingly paralyzed except for some shallow breathing. He seemed somewhat swolen, but not quite pineconeing. I did an emergency switch with the ryukin in QT as it was only a few days from completeing QT, doing a complete water change on the tank. He's just finished adjusting to the QT tank. In the little tank I can see what looks to be a small air-bubble like blister. I'm afraid he's on his way out, but I want to do all I can. Or, at least, prevent it from happening again.
The readings on the main tank are 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrates and 0 Nitrites, and the PH is stable at 7.4. Any ideas?
I added an albino BN to my 80G goldfish tank about two months ago. He was doing great for the first month, active if a bit shy (he adopted a 'cave' formed between two pieces of mopani driftwood). I did end up having to treat the tank for flukes while he was in it, and made the mistake of adding some salt at %0.1 as usual along with prazi pro. Upon finding out that plecos often do not do well with salt (I should have looked it up before hand, I realize), I stoped and did another %50 to reduce the saltyness, and only treated with prazi from then on.
This was a while ago, and he still was doing well. But about a week ago he started to get less active during the day, and seemed to hang out around the filter. I assumed he was becoming more nocturnal, as he otherwised seemed fine and was still eating. My quarentine tank was currently occupied with a small ryukin who did need some salt treatment, and I did not want to move him in there.
However, this morning he was sitting listless on the bottom, seemingly paralyzed except for some shallow breathing. He seemed somewhat swolen, but not quite pineconeing. I did an emergency switch with the ryukin in QT as it was only a few days from completeing QT, doing a complete water change on the tank. He's just finished adjusting to the QT tank. In the little tank I can see what looks to be a small air-bubble like blister. I'm afraid he's on his way out, but I want to do all I can. Or, at least, prevent it from happening again.
The readings on the main tank are 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrates and 0 Nitrites, and the PH is stable at 7.4. Any ideas?
