Red Minor tetra are a bit of a gregarious species, and with too few individuals can result in them harassing other tank mates. Red Minor tetras are natural shoaling fish, thriving best with at least 6 individuals but more are encouraged. The Red Minor tetra has an orange-red body, with small or no black markings behind the head and black on both the dorsal and anal fins. While Red Minor tetra are relatively hardy, aquacultured specimens have an extra leg up on their wild counterparts being better acclimated to artificial environments. Many Red Minor tetra available within the aquarium trade are commerically produced. By using dirty tank water, you are not exposing the new bacteria colony that lives in that media to disinfectants such as chlorine or chloramine.General Description: The Red Minor Tetra has a large distribution throughout much of the Amazon drainage in Brazil, Peru and Paraguay. When your filter pad becomes full of debris, it is best to swish it around in a bucket of dirty tank water. I would suspect it will take another month for your tank to cycle. Don't skip on a daily water change as the detox effects only last 24-hours. Using this water conditioner, you can safely dose 5 times the standard dose. If you can pick up a bottle of Seachem Prime it can help to detox the ammonia and nitrites. I would recommend feeding only a pinch or two of fish food.and to feed every other day.Ĭontinue with the 50% daily water changes. And, while a tank is cycling, it is even more important to underfeed. Fish are the worst beggars I have ever dealt with. They do not need as much food as they pretend. A fish's stomach is about the size of their eye. This makes me think you may be overfeeding your fish. You've mentioned that your filter pad was very dirty after only one week. And, you would know that nitrites are even more hazardous to your your fish. If you read the information on the nitrogen cycle, then you should be aware that now your ammonia levels are starting to lower that the nitrites are rising. Does anyone know what the foggy stuff and loss of color is on one of my barbs? Please help me get rid of the red gills and how do I take down the ammonia level? ( PLEASE HELP! I don't want them to die!!:'(ĭo you have a nitrite or a nitrate test kit? These two parameters, with ammonia, give you the full picture of what is happening in your tank. Alot of the time the fish just stay without moving but sometimes move around. I just looked and even thought the ammonia level went from toxic to stress, the red gills seem to be getting worse. One of them looks terrible and has very little color and looks a bit foggy. One of the tiger barbs looks completely fine, only with red gills. All of my 7 fish have RED GILLS and here is what my main problem is: I also did another water change yesterday and today about 30% to clean the gravel and fed them very little. The next day the ammonia level went down a bit. I cleaned the gravel twice with the tube and did about a 65% water change in total. I went to the fishstore on January 24 and bought more conditioner, a sopher or something like that to clean the gravel, and another filter pad. I checked my filter pad and it was really dirty which alerted me. Each day, the ammonia level went up until it became toxic. I didnt have a tube to clean the gravel at fist so the gravel stayed partially dirty. I did a complete water change hoping to get it back down which didnt help much. I accidently overfed my fish and in about 2 days the ammonia started to rise. I bought a Mardel NH3 Ammonia reader and it showed no Ammonia. My total was 4 tiger barbs, 2 tetras, and 1 cherry barb. In the morning, I bought a new filter and 2 more tiger barbs. The next day my filter broke at night so the fish went a whole night with no filtering. That same day I added 2 tiger barbs and 1 cherry barb. Did no cycles (I know I shouldve) and put two tetras in it. Ok so on January 15th I got a 10 gallon tank.
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