I just got a red dragon flowerhorn, he is 4 " and hve really nice color. He in a tank that been running over a month. He seem to be happy and very active until couple days ago, he suddenly keep hiding and wont come out when i tap on the tank like he usually does, he is the only fish in that tank btw.he still eat like normal but just not active and color fade sometime but come back 1 in awhile. I have use prime by seahem, the water nitrite and nitrate is safe but alkiliny is very high, ph 8.0, water is really hard. There is another tank have same prob but only 1 fish is stressing, i did 25% water change every 2 days with prime in the new water before add into tank, what can i do to lower alkiliny, nitrite, nitrate? And why does my tank still not cycle even tho it more than a month already?
water condition for flowerhorn
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Did you just said colour change? I have a female red dragon, it's very active ..but as I m just a standard x student I have to get up real early, then when I switch on the lights of the aquarium it sits in bottom of the tank and it's colour fade from red to black, does anyone knows the reason?
I agree with brz on the drift wood. Have you tried aquarium salt to soften the water hardness? From my experience fh's like high PH and my FH gets skittish at this size until they adjust to their surroundings.
Yeah i added salt in his tank, i just found out the filter and heater stop working, heater been unplug by sum1 and filter run too quietly so i didnt knownit stop. Yesterday i check and fix both of them, added metafix and prime, now he look better, he been eating again but still not active and i see his body look like skin peeling, i dont think it fungus because his water is extremely clean but i know fish have scale not skin so.....any1 know wth is wrong with him? Also can i just put a piece of wood in the tank because i cant get drift wood around here.
heater going would definately cause the above behavior. had 2 go in basement this past winter and they acted like that. check your ammonia levels about peeling. sounds possibly like ammonia to me. frequent 25% water changes and keep adding ben bacteria.