Digital Changeling

July 11, 2007

Stupid Fish

Last night I did a 50% water change in my aquarium. The water I removed was filthy. I've upped the salt content to 4 table spoons, but I can't raise the temperature any higher. At 81 degrees the fish are spending a lot of time opening and closing their mouths. At 82 they were sluggish and seemed rather unhappy so I brought the temperature back down. I've been feeding them twice a day.

The ick is getting worse. Three of them are covered in it now and the others have a few spots. I appreciate that it takes a while to cure, but this has been going on for over a week. I'm not sure who to trust. I'm not sure if the fish can take a higher temperature if I get something to aerate the water more. I don't know if more or less salt would help. Every resource I look at disagrees and half of them suggest broad spectrum antibiotics, which will kill my nitrogen fixing bacteria.

I hate every unscientific f*ck who thinks they can give aquarium advice without understanding basic biology and I mostly want this to go away.

posted by Eva @ 5:32 PM

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Well, if they are using antibiotic as a technical term, antibiotics will do absolutely nothing for ich since it isn't a bacterial infection

posted by  Michael Phillips : July 11, 2007 6:38 PM

 

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