the woman at the pet shop told me to leave my tank off for 2hours and now my fish are moving very slowly and keep turning on their backs and look like they are duyin is this because they didnt have oxygen in the 2 hours and wil they be ok?
please help
2007-05-19 10:56:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
You were given some really poor advice. Restart your filter, but remove the carbon so it doesn't remove the medication. The lack of water movement will cause a decrease in oxygen as you are obviously aware and the medication can also decrease the oxygen levels so the fish really need the moving water the filter will provide.
MM
2007-05-19 11:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not OK. When you treat the tank usually the instructions tell you to remove the carbon from your filter but still keep it running....so I'm assuming you turned the filter completely off? Remove the carbon and turn it back on.
Did you give the proper dosage of medicine? Did you double-check to make sure you bought the right product?
I have a small freshwater aquarium with platys and guppies that was prone to fungus. The best advice I ever received was to heat the tank to 81 degrees and add aquarium salt. (Add the salt per instructions on the box. Do NOT use table salt.) That might be something to think about for future reference.
Hope your fish will be OK!
2007-05-19 11:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by goldfish 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
the idea behind this is to make sure the filter does not weaken the treatment.
make sure you did not overdose the tank, 2 hours should make little difference to the fish so i would double check the dosage.
fungus can be best treated with a salt bath, the exact amount needed escapes me at the minute but a little search around the net should help there.
fungus can also be a sign of a badly kept tank, remember you are not keeping fish as such, you are keeping water.
fail to keep it clean and the fish suffer.
2007-05-19 11:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by safcian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should increase oxygenation when using treatments. You should also take out the carbon media in your filter as this will take the treatment out of the water. Unfortunately, you may not have caught the infrection in time. Just keep an eye on them for a while.
2007-05-19 12:00:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is the fungus gone? If it is, then I think they do need a little more oxygen. Quickly go and buy an air pump and an air stone and put it into your tank to increase the oxygen level.
~ZTM
2007-05-19 11:02:25 · answer #5 · answered by ZooTycoonMaster 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no! its not your foalt their dying, its that stuff for fin rot it doesnt work i had 38 fish and every one of them died and that finrot sh*t doesnt work
2007-05-20 22:40:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋