Hello everyone
I have a Bicolor Angelfish I bought around 3 weeks ago now. They was in a 34L Fluval Flex aquarium as my QT tank. During this I used some rock epoxy which released talc and I lost my all my fish in my Fluval Evo aquarium. Lesson learnt the hard way and still very annoyed at myself. This meant the coral and inverts from the Evo also moved in with the Bicolor Angelfish in the QT tank.
The Angelfish has always been timid, but out of nowhere was found very flushed out in colour and breathing heavily. I can't see anything on the scales of the fish, and the breathing is fast but I wouldn't say deep.
I took this has a stress sign, and with the Fluval Evo back to good levels and a shrimp behaving fine, I decided to move the Bicolor Angelfish to the Evo for more space and faster flow.
Overnight the Bicolor Angelfish's color came straight back, but at times also looks almost darker than normal. Breathing is sometimes a little calmer but sometimes not. The 1st day I saw occassional itches against rocks but days 2 and 3 in the Evo have shown none of these signs. I am also starting to see some more normal behaviour such as going to explore the aquarum and pecking at rockwork, but mostly just staying low in the aquarium and still not breathing right. See the video below:
You can see the normal behaviour for most of the day and breathing. Things haven't got worse since moving to the Fluval Evo and they continue to eat every day. I have changed up my once a day to currently 3x of smaller amounts to help. Something however is still clearly not right.
Water quality wise, the 34L Flex it was in Qt for 2+ weeks is:
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
20<40 Nitrate
The 52L Flex is:
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
10<20 Nitrate
My head is saying possibly gill flukes, but after my lack of knowing about the talc situation with the epoxy, I'm acting like I know nothing at this stage.
Other things to note:
Fluval Evo aquarium has filtration section removed and a seperate filter on the side, so the 56x29x38cm is mostly open space compared to the stock Fluval Evo
QT tank and Evo both currently have inverts and at least 1 coral and are showing no adverse effects from anything.
Thanks for reading
- Paul
I have a Bicolor Angelfish I bought around 3 weeks ago now. They was in a 34L Fluval Flex aquarium as my QT tank. During this I used some rock epoxy which released talc and I lost my all my fish in my Fluval Evo aquarium. Lesson learnt the hard way and still very annoyed at myself. This meant the coral and inverts from the Evo also moved in with the Bicolor Angelfish in the QT tank.
The Angelfish has always been timid, but out of nowhere was found very flushed out in colour and breathing heavily. I can't see anything on the scales of the fish, and the breathing is fast but I wouldn't say deep.
I took this has a stress sign, and with the Fluval Evo back to good levels and a shrimp behaving fine, I decided to move the Bicolor Angelfish to the Evo for more space and faster flow.
Overnight the Bicolor Angelfish's color came straight back, but at times also looks almost darker than normal. Breathing is sometimes a little calmer but sometimes not. The 1st day I saw occassional itches against rocks but days 2 and 3 in the Evo have shown none of these signs. I am also starting to see some more normal behaviour such as going to explore the aquarum and pecking at rockwork, but mostly just staying low in the aquarium and still not breathing right. See the video below:
You can see the normal behaviour for most of the day and breathing. Things haven't got worse since moving to the Fluval Evo and they continue to eat every day. I have changed up my once a day to currently 3x of smaller amounts to help. Something however is still clearly not right.
Water quality wise, the 34L Flex it was in Qt for 2+ weeks is:
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
20<40 Nitrate
The 52L Flex is:
0 Ammonia
0 Nitrite
10<20 Nitrate
My head is saying possibly gill flukes, but after my lack of knowing about the talc situation with the epoxy, I'm acting like I know nothing at this stage.
Other things to note:
Fluval Evo aquarium has filtration section removed and a seperate filter on the side, so the 56x29x38cm is mostly open space compared to the stock Fluval Evo
QT tank and Evo both currently have inverts and at least 1 coral and are showing no adverse effects from anything.
Thanks for reading
- Paul