- Have you tested your water?
- Yes
- If yes, what is your ammonia?
- 0
- If yes, what is your nitrite?
- 0
- If yes, what is your nitrate?
- 10
- If I did not test my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be asked to do a test, and that water tests are critical for solving freshwater health problems.
- Do you do water changes?
- Yes
- What percentage of water do you change?
- 41-50%
- How frequently do you change your water?
- Every week
- If I do not change my water...
- ...I recognize that I will likely be recommended to do a water change, and water changes are critical for preventing future freshwater health problems.
Hello every one i have never seen this exactly before, and have looked all over the internet with no real conclusion to be found. I want to begin treatment for the right thing to begin with any help is appreciated. First off I just got this fish common name blue dolphin cichlid from a local cichlid breeder exactly a week ago. It is how ever a wild caught fish. It is in a tank solo but is a well established tank I moved the salvini that was in it to another tank. Ammonia is 0 ppm, nitrite 0 ppm, nitrate was about 10 ppm before I just did a water change. p.h hovers around 8 out of the tap here. the fish is very active I am yet to find it not moving around. Issue is it has one white spot in the center of both eyes, the eyes are not cloudy them selfs, white does not seem to be raised, literally looks like a pupil but I am sure it is not I have looked at many vids and pics of these fish and have not seen it in any of them. At first I did not notice I work 3rd and any were from 11 to 13 hours a day. I left the lights of and did not feed till friday normal practice for me when getting new fish. What really made me look closely at is eyes is it seems to be blind to a certain degree. I am attacing to videos here, one the shorter ones I try to get as good as I can of its eyes. The longer one is a feeding video both I just took before typing this. You can see in the feeding video it literally can not find the food n.l.s cichlid formula. It smells it when it goes in the tank right of and goes into hunt mode but can not see it even right in front of its face, just goes around the tank sucking in water untill it gets lucky and snacks up all the pellets. I was thinking its wild caught and simply does not know what pellets are through in frozen blood warms and same thing simply does not see them. Thanks for your time I take great pride in caring for the animals I have and want to get this figured out a.s.a.p but I am at a lose and do not want to just keeping throwing different remedies at this all ready stressed out fish.
Jeff
Jeff
