Cichlid Gold is just fine as a staple. It's even overly fortified with vitamins (as are many fish foods). Make sure you also feed them vegetables and other treats. Do you use carbon? I had HITH disease and got it from using carbon (as soon as I removed it, HITH cleared up).
Unidentified Spots on Oscar
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Here's some more pics.
The Albino is now in the 75 gallon, and I am going to post the Bala's on craigslist after I post this. As far as the pleco goes, I will put him on craigslist, but Hell, I don't know anyone that would want a common pleco about 7".
Hopefully this will stop any excess stress.
My PH is high because of the plants and the process they go through( at least that's what I have been told.) photosynthesis.
I did a 30% change.
Now I sit back and wait cause I am pretty sure that it'll go away by tomorrow.
The only fish that will be in the 125 when I am finished are the 2 Oscar's, the fire eel, and the catfish. THAT shouldn't be overstocked with my filtration and water change schedule.
The Albino is now in the 75 gallon, and I am going to post the Bala's on craigslist after I post this. As far as the pleco goes, I will put him on craigslist, but Hell, I don't know anyone that would want a common pleco about 7".
Hopefully this will stop any excess stress.
My PH is high because of the plants and the process they go through( at least that's what I have been told.) photosynthesis.
I did a 30% change.
Now I sit back and wait cause I am pretty sure that it'll go away by tomorrow.
The only fish that will be in the 125 when I am finished are the 2 Oscar's, the fire eel, and the catfish. THAT shouldn't be overstocked with my filtration and water change schedule.
the good quality pellets that i have are bio gold they are really good sry i dont know about the disease and i do have an oscar but hes not sick i hope you do great and your oscar and please buy the pellets there really good and high in quality
Why are you suggesting that Corn Flakes is a high quality fish food? That's what Cichlid Gold is. It's Corn Flakes in a pellet. It's worthless BS and no fish should be eating it.
A little update, just as I suspected, the spots are completely gone, without a trace they were ever there. This is what leads me to believe that it is not HITH. If it were, then the spots would gradually get worse, correct? Anyway, Thanks for the input everyone, and if anyone has any idea what this is and why it comes and goes, I am all ears.
It's most likely an opportunistic bacterial infection that goes into remission when the tank's parameters are more stable and the fishes' immune systems function at their peak. Typing that reminded me:
I had an L191 panaque in my 75. Never try to keep a six-inch panaque in 75 gallons of water. He made so much sawdust that I had to vacuum the floor of the tank twice per week just to keep it from clogging the filters. After about six months I was seeing what you are seeing. Little white spots that look more like vitiligo than a real disease. I did some footwork and got to the bottom of it, turns out all that sawdust (microscopic, invisible specks of it) was lurking in the water column contributing to waste production by slowly decaying like an invisible graveyard in my tank. It wasn't contributing to the nitrogen cycle, though, so it didn't show up as nitrAtes or anything we commonly check for.. It was a different type of breakdown product that I had to do 90% water changes twice a week to keep away. The stress from that byproduct had been compromising my panaque(and some of the other fish, too, in fact)'s immune system, allowing for these temporary outbreaks. Once I was breaking my back on water changes, these spots went away and didn't come back. But I got sick of all that worrying and gave the panaque away.
I had an L191 panaque in my 75. Never try to keep a six-inch panaque in 75 gallons of water. He made so much sawdust that I had to vacuum the floor of the tank twice per week just to keep it from clogging the filters. After about six months I was seeing what you are seeing. Little white spots that look more like vitiligo than a real disease. I did some footwork and got to the bottom of it, turns out all that sawdust (microscopic, invisible specks of it) was lurking in the water column contributing to waste production by slowly decaying like an invisible graveyard in my tank. It wasn't contributing to the nitrogen cycle, though, so it didn't show up as nitrAtes or anything we commonly check for.. It was a different type of breakdown product that I had to do 90% water changes twice a week to keep away. The stress from that byproduct had been compromising my panaque(and some of the other fish, too, in fact)'s immune system, allowing for these temporary outbreaks. Once I was breaking my back on water changes, these spots went away and didn't come back. But I got sick of all that worrying and gave the panaque away.
I'm still confused as to your PH problem. Plants are NOT causing your PH to rise. Something from your tank is leaching in to the water. You have a beautiful tank, and if anything, all that wood should cause your PH to drop. Possible suspects would include rocks, especially marble or coral.
I don't know what your oscar had, but I would recomend that you get the PH down to 7. Also, your nitrates seem high since Oscars are susceptible to HITH and need clean water; Try to keep nitrates no higher than 10ppm.
Off the subject, thats a nice looking tank.
Off the subject, thats a nice looking tank.
Well thanks for the replies and the compliments.
The spots came back yesterday. What a pain in my ***. I did a 50% WC, got rid of the bala's and the pleco. So now there are only the 2 O's and a fire eel and a feather-finned cat. The other O is in a 75 with a couple of small cichlids for the time being.
I have never been able to drop my PH to lower than 7.5 for some reason, I thought it was some granite I had in there at first but I took it all out. Now there is only some slate gravel I use to anchor my plants... I also added a bunch of peat to the fx5 to soften the water hopefully to drop the PH, to no avail.
I thought the wood would have dropped it also to be honest with you. We'll see in the next few days if this goes away for good, by last night even the new spots were dissipating a bit and the water was looking crystal again (the 50% WC fogged it up a bit)
Thanks again for the help!
The spots came back yesterday. What a pain in my ***. I did a 50% WC, got rid of the bala's and the pleco. So now there are only the 2 O's and a fire eel and a feather-finned cat. The other O is in a 75 with a couple of small cichlids for the time being.
I have never been able to drop my PH to lower than 7.5 for some reason, I thought it was some granite I had in there at first but I took it all out. Now there is only some slate gravel I use to anchor my plants... I also added a bunch of peat to the fx5 to soften the water hopefully to drop the PH, to no avail.
I thought the wood would have dropped it also to be honest with you. We'll see in the next few days if this goes away for good, by last night even the new spots were dissipating a bit and the water was looking crystal again (the 50% WC fogged it up a bit)
Thanks again for the help!
