Hey
I was just wondering what do you do when you think something is not quite right with your fish?
I know most people probably quarantine there new fish / plants.
I have never quarantined as I only have the one tank, I do rinse my plants, and I try to make sure the fish are healthy before I make the purchase.
But my question is, if you start to think your fish are not acting as normal, or one fish looks a bit sorry for its self, in general you think something is out of balance, what's your choice of action?
I've luckily never witnessed/had many fish diseases so I have no clue really, but have seen ick many times in fish shops, but most problems I have come across with my fish, either in the pond or tank, they seem to be one's with out obvious symptoms so I guess more internal. In the past I have used salt baths, but mostly I just up my water changes and try to keep the tank clean as possible which seems to work a treat most the time, and other times I feel like quite a few fish now days are just generally poor health, genetically I guess, so in the end some fish just die. I know acclimatising also plays a role when introducing new fish, but many staff at fish shops tend to tell me how they don't like buying these fish as there very poor health and hard to look after now days.
Lately I feel like the balance in my tank is not right, most the times my fish are fine, then other times I see them alone with there fins down, and yeah I just feel like generally there is more bad in my tank than good. Hope that make's sense, apart from that there all healthy and there is no specific problem I am asking help on, but just curious what other people do?
I don't like using products/medicines as it seems they can do more harm than good, especially if your not 100% sure what's actually wrong with a fish....
So I would be interested to know what other people do, when there are no obvious symptoms.
Sorry if the question seems a bit strange, I'm not asking about the obvious such as ick etc, but just when you feel or think something is not right? do you add anything to your tanks? increase water changes?
I would be interested to know.
I was just wondering what do you do when you think something is not quite right with your fish?
I know most people probably quarantine there new fish / plants.
I have never quarantined as I only have the one tank, I do rinse my plants, and I try to make sure the fish are healthy before I make the purchase.
But my question is, if you start to think your fish are not acting as normal, or one fish looks a bit sorry for its self, in general you think something is out of balance, what's your choice of action?
I've luckily never witnessed/had many fish diseases so I have no clue really, but have seen ick many times in fish shops, but most problems I have come across with my fish, either in the pond or tank, they seem to be one's with out obvious symptoms so I guess more internal. In the past I have used salt baths, but mostly I just up my water changes and try to keep the tank clean as possible which seems to work a treat most the time, and other times I feel like quite a few fish now days are just generally poor health, genetically I guess, so in the end some fish just die. I know acclimatising also plays a role when introducing new fish, but many staff at fish shops tend to tell me how they don't like buying these fish as there very poor health and hard to look after now days.
Lately I feel like the balance in my tank is not right, most the times my fish are fine, then other times I see them alone with there fins down, and yeah I just feel like generally there is more bad in my tank than good. Hope that make's sense, apart from that there all healthy and there is no specific problem I am asking help on, but just curious what other people do?
I don't like using products/medicines as it seems they can do more harm than good, especially if your not 100% sure what's actually wrong with a fish....
So I would be interested to know what other people do, when there are no obvious symptoms.
Sorry if the question seems a bit strange, I'm not asking about the obvious such as ick etc, but just when you feel or think something is not right? do you add anything to your tanks? increase water changes?
I would be interested to know.