Hi friends.
Sad news to me today. Coming back from work, find out one of my blue turquoise died. It was a nice discus, always active, one of the biggest and older I had.
Don't know exactly the reason, but yesterday he was constipated, like bloated. See him throwing back some pellets and lying in the bottom.
Fastly I make another WC and he aparently get better. Later his belly has a kind of mark, darker but not black. Didn't know what to do (and sunday, all LFS are closed).
This morning (monday) he was still on the bottom, but when I came back with some meds, its was too late.
Checked all the parameters again, pH 6.8, amonia normal and nitrates almost zero. Only the Kh is a bit higher (but I don't have much experience in this parameter).
Anyways, all other discus are fine, no marks, not bloated, swimming fine and eating less, but eating. (now I'm offering much less food to them).
Their diet was made of frozen bloodworms, some frozen brine shrimp and sometimes alive brine shrimp and pellets.
stoping the live and frozen food for now.
Lesson to learn - take much more care with the food offered to them.
And I was happy, cause this days I rescued one little pigeon blood with some defective fins (born irregular - pics later).
Sorry for the big post, had to comment this with friends who could undestand me and teach me somethings
Sad news to me today. Coming back from work, find out one of my blue turquoise died. It was a nice discus, always active, one of the biggest and older I had.
Don't know exactly the reason, but yesterday he was constipated, like bloated. See him throwing back some pellets and lying in the bottom.
Fastly I make another WC and he aparently get better. Later his belly has a kind of mark, darker but not black. Didn't know what to do (and sunday, all LFS are closed).
This morning (monday) he was still on the bottom, but when I came back with some meds, its was too late.
Checked all the parameters again, pH 6.8, amonia normal and nitrates almost zero. Only the Kh is a bit higher (but I don't have much experience in this parameter).
Anyways, all other discus are fine, no marks, not bloated, swimming fine and eating less, but eating. (now I'm offering much less food to them).
Their diet was made of frozen bloodworms, some frozen brine shrimp and sometimes alive brine shrimp and pellets.
stoping the live and frozen food for now.
Lesson to learn - take much more care with the food offered to them.
And I was happy, cause this days I rescued one little pigeon blood with some defective fins (born irregular - pics later).
Sorry for the big post, had to comment this with friends who could undestand me and teach me somethings
