Odd Patches on new Rams

[Crazed Demasoni]

Hi,

I picked up 3 locally raised rams from my LFS, but 2 of them aren't looking so hot. They all eat well (it's been a week now) and one has definitely established dominance over the others.

The one has white spots on its head, but was being bullied a lot at first.

The dominant one seems to have a lump behind it's fin.

Tank has been up for 5 weeks, don't have a nitrites test kit but use the API tube tests for the others


20L with Eco-Complete substrate
RCS
2 small BN Plecos
3 Rams

Water is 78*F
7ish PH
0ppm ammonia
???ppm Nitrites
10ppm Nitrates

I'm currently dosing with Melafix, but that's all.
Will post pics shortly.


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[Crazed Demasoni]

Pics. Sorry DSLR is not charged. Try to ignore my current algae outbreak. Dosing flourish excel too


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[C L O W N K N I F E]

If melafix doesn't help any in 3 days of using, I would try aquarium salt and bumping the temp

 

[Crazed Demasoni]

So I added salt as recommended by the package (think it was 1tbs per 5g) and things seem to be getting better. I did lose one galaxy rasbora that they gave me for free, but my ram with the white spots on its face seems to be doing well. Bumped the temp to 82 as well.

My ram with the lump under its pectoral fin base seems like he's not improving, but another one just laid eggs last night. All kinds of weirdness going on in there right now.

I'm just going to maintain this salinity and temperature while doing 2 25% WC/wk and see what happens.

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