SunshineTK
01-24-2008, 07:30 PM
I wanted to get some opinions about this -
Bought some neons to add to our school and they looked fine. Two days later, one had very dull coloration in the red area. We moved him to a quarantine tank and he's still there five days later, with no disease progression, and he's swimming fine (our "quarantine tank" is a 1 gallon that we set up for him hastily after moving some guppy fry, which is why the new neons weren't quarantined before adding them to the main tank). Now I'm of course obsessed with looking at the other fish to make sure they all look ok, convinced the neon has NTD. Could this just be stress/shock as a result of the water change from the store to the tank? Although the tank has been fully cycled for a couple weeks (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, nitrates 10-20 with regular water changes), we also had a mini (~.5) nitrite spike the day after we added the fish (we added a few addl danios at the same time), which was right before he turned dull. I know neons are pretty sensitive fish.
55 gal, light on fish (not close to fully stocked never mind overstocked)
ammonia 0, nitrite 0 to .5 as explained above, nitrate between 5 and 20 depending on where in the week prior to water change, ph 7.1, temp 77. Both ph and temp are stable.
Bought some neons to add to our school and they looked fine. Two days later, one had very dull coloration in the red area. We moved him to a quarantine tank and he's still there five days later, with no disease progression, and he's swimming fine (our "quarantine tank" is a 1 gallon that we set up for him hastily after moving some guppy fry, which is why the new neons weren't quarantined before adding them to the main tank). Now I'm of course obsessed with looking at the other fish to make sure they all look ok, convinced the neon has NTD. Could this just be stress/shock as a result of the water change from the store to the tank? Although the tank has been fully cycled for a couple weeks (0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, nitrates 10-20 with regular water changes), we also had a mini (~.5) nitrite spike the day after we added the fish (we added a few addl danios at the same time), which was right before he turned dull. I know neons are pretty sensitive fish.
55 gal, light on fish (not close to fully stocked never mind overstocked)
ammonia 0, nitrite 0 to .5 as explained above, nitrate between 5 and 20 depending on where in the week prior to water change, ph 7.1, temp 77. Both ph and temp are stable.