andy65

my Rupert (fire gorumi) is breathing a bit hard, IE fast gill movements.
What would cause this? Should I another water change with RO water? We have a home unit for our drinking water but my mother lets my use it for my fish tank too.
Sorry for the long post. I thought that I would be through. Also sorry if some of my sentences are a bit off. I'm dyslexic and I try my best to make every thing sound and spelled right but some times things slip past me.

I tested my water and my ammonium was .25. I did a 25-30% water change.
I used some Jungle external parasite med because he was flashing on the intake of my filter like crazy for about a 40 Sec. then stopped.
He only flashed again once the rest of the today. He does not have any thing on him that look like any parasite that I know of.

On the bottle it said to keep the water aerated,well I thought that just the filter would be ok for air. I'm not sure if that is what is making him breathing fast.

All of my other fish are fine, 5 black tetras and my red wag platy, no fast gill movement. I put my carbon bag in there to take the meds out and I have a air stone on.

I double doused the tank with some Jungle Declor tabs. We do not have chlorine in our water, as we are on a well, but we do have a bad iron problem and other heavy metals. The tabs seem to have helped a bit. He is not breathing AS fast but its still a bit more than he does most of the time

Thanks

COBettaCouple

I'd definitely recommend Prime to deal with those heavy metals. He could use a running airstone, especially with that parasite med.

The ammonia indicated the tank's not cycled or in a mini-cycle so he could be dealing with ammonia poisoning. The treatment for that is water changes, so I think another one could help.

metal_fish

Im having same problem with my powder blue gouramis one has died the other still breathing heavily My tank read pH 7.6 Ammonia 0ppm nitrite 0ppm all of my other fish are thriving. What the Heck?

andy65

I know that my tank was cycled. The reading were all fine last week when I tested them. I think its just a mini-cycle. He is doing much better this morning. No more fast gills.

The thing is that I can only get Prime from Foster and Smith and I can't make a new order till Feb. I will get a bottle when I order next. I know that my LFS has these two products. Are these any good?
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