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My 3 year old oranda baby might physically got hurt before I adopted her last Wednesday night, but I am totally not sure if it was some other causes. When I picked her up, the swelling thing on the tail was light red, and after I put her in my tank for 3 days, the thing turned white and became bigger. My tank is cycled now, and earlier it was good too, the test result numbers are safe. I gave my fish 2 tsp in 1 gallon salt bath for one minute on Monday night, nothing looked different but she became more energetic. Yesterday night, I gave her 1 tsp in 1 gallon water salt bath for 24 minutes, and this morning the thing on her tail turned back to light red color but the size did not change. Does this mean the salt bath works? I should continue or do something else? She looks energetic, swims around, and still would eat when I feed.
Tank
29 gallon, been running for 6 days, fluval 307 canister filter, no heater, water temperature 21 C/70 F, the tank only has this one fish and some live plants.
Maintenance
I changed 25 percent water 3 days ago. I treated water with fluval aqua plus conditioner and used turbostarter 700 and other people's used filter media to build cycling and it is cycled now. I did not vacuums anything yet, the tank is very clean now. I have sand substrate.
*Parameters - Very Important
I cycled before I added her but it is not fully cycled, used API freshwater test kit,
Ammonia:0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate:0.25
pH:7.4
Feeding
I only saw her eating once since I adopted her, when I let flake sink to be right in front of her. I don't see her coming up to eat the floating pellets. I got sera pellets and top fin flakes. I don't feed frozen or freeze dried food yet.
Tank
29 gallon, been running for 6 days, fluval 307 canister filter, no heater, water temperature 21 C/70 F, the tank only has this one fish and some live plants.
Maintenance
I changed 25 percent water 3 days ago. I treated water with fluval aqua plus conditioner and used turbostarter 700 and other people's used filter media to build cycling and it is cycled now. I did not vacuums anything yet, the tank is very clean now. I have sand substrate.
*Parameters - Very Important
I cycled before I added her but it is not fully cycled, used API freshwater test kit,
Ammonia:0
Nitrite:0
Nitrate:0.25
pH:7.4
Feeding
I only saw her eating once since I adopted her, when I let flake sink to be right in front of her. I don't see her coming up to eat the floating pellets. I got sera pellets and top fin flakes. I don't feed frozen or freeze dried food yet.
