buffinoz

bristle nose had for 10 days about 2 inchs long, swimming and eating fine still
they have bog wood and plants to munch on aswell as alge wafflesevery 3/4 days
how bad is it?
all the outher fish are fine(outher bn at same time great looking)
levels are good,water change yesterday 25%

looks like internal bleeding on tips of fins and around mouth and ( chin) if it had one

any help

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buffinoz

looking at some of my plants one of them has had a leaf sucked (to shall i say a shell? ) of all its colour, its not a true red plant it is redish green, low growing in the bottom of tank ( crypt) large roots for not a lot of leaf, long leaf for its width

could it have sucked the red from the leafs and not digested it??

(can i feed it unharmfull blue stuff? or orange suff??) silly idea i know but trying to make a bad thing good

COBettaCouple

It sounds like it could've been that he ate some of that plant. What is the current ammonia reading on the tank?

buffinoz

amonia is at 0-0.5
nitrite0
nitrate 5
swims ok around tank still, hasnt spreed any more yet (12 hours after first post)

Shawnie

hes adorable and not sure about his coloring issue..but I do know that any ammonia reading is lethal...

Id do an immediate water change of at least 50% and treat the tap water with some conditioner..most of us use prime...

I hope he does ok!

COBettaCouple

Yea, I'd do daily water changes, testing before each change, to get the ammonia down. It most likely is what he ate, but they're sensitive to ammonia, so that might be a factor.

Butterfly

Looks like ammonia poisoning. The areas around the mouth and around the gills in lighter colored fish will show red first. The water change advice given is right on the money. when was the last water change done and how much was changed? What other fish are in the tank with him . sorry for all teh questions )
Carol

buffinoz

large change on day of post 40% with filter clean,( only removed slime with fingers and didnt rinse media) cleaned pipes. rearanged plants and gravel.

1 neon tetra
2 sword tails
3 mollies
4 guppies
and the 2 bn

all outhers doing fine no dramas
all levels good, now checking every 12 hours
using prime with watr change and small amount of salt
( will lessen the salt) to half dose for mollies

Butterfly

It's a toss up between the ammonia and the salt. Bristlenose DO NOT like salt. Do you have something else you could put him in?
Carol

Shawnie

Plecs dont like salt heres a thread for you to read if need be

plecos and salt

the daily water changes with prime will fix him up in no time...I hope he does well !!

buffinoz

ok am about to do a 25% change with prime and no salt
do i really need the salt for mollies , guppies or swordtails?,
maybe 1 in five buckets with salt i.e 20% of origanal maybe ok?
how do i measure salinity of the water?
thanks heaps for your help so far