breathing heavy

nemo1991 · 06-23-2008, 12:39 PM

well for the past couple weeks, both my tangs and all my clown fish have been breathing REALLY heavy like their gills that been going crazy..........i have lost a bunch of fish to ich the past couple weeks (powder blue tang, black saddleback butterfly, etc)......and i need to do something.....does the breathing have anything to do with that possibley???

i just put garlic in my magic bullet and it made the garlic into a paste (SP?) so then i put like 2 parts fish food to the garlic and fed them and they seemed to go crazy....but the only fish who dont have visible signes of ich are the 2 chromis' and the tangs....the tangs are the only fish that get cleaned by the shrimp....sometimes the female saddle back does too but the little guy never did (past

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any help here?
what am i doing wrong?

wareagle35031 · 06-23-2008, 12:50 PM

what are your parameters, unhealthy fish usually fall ill to ick, not healthy ones

nemo1991 · 06-23-2008, 01:08 PM

i have had a spike in the last week or so.....the amonia is at .25, nitrates are at 20 again, and nitrites are at 0..........

nemo1991 · 06-23-2008, 01:13 PM

now my male false perc is not looking good at all,.....he is swimming really closely to the sand, and stops swimming at times, adn then starts again.....i am feeding with teh garlic, but idk what to do....i was almost going to fresh water dip him.....but i was told he already sounds stressed out enough that it would only kill him.....aaww everything is really bad right now!!! help!!!

Iraf · 06-23-2008, 01:24 PM

sounds like something kicked off a cycle to me

geekdafied · 06-23-2008, 01:26 PM

how old is your tank? whats the size of it?

nemo1991 · 06-24-2008, 12:14 AM

55 gallons........its like 5 months old or so, but all the water and rock and sand was from an established tank (2 years old)

coral reefer · 06-24-2008, 01:26 AM

It seems to me that their is too much carbon dioxide in your tank and not enough dissolved oxygen causing your fish labored breathing! That coinsiding with the fact that your fish may be stressed, are responsible for this dilemma.

phoenixhieghts · 06-24-2008, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by coral reefer

It seems to me that their is too much carbon dioxide in your tank and not enough dissolved oxygen causing your fish labored breathing! That coinsiding with the fact that your fish may be stressed, are responsible for this dilemma.

Thats a good one - do you do anything to oxygenate the water? Perhaps a pump and airstone is in order here

nemo1991 · 06-24-2008, 12:50 PM

i have a filter that when it drops tot eh water it brings in oxygen, and i have a skimmer that brings in oxygen.....i have air pumps, should i put those in there?