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Hi all,
I just did my normal weekly water change on my fish tank (~60 or 70% this time, usually i do 50-60% but did a little bit larger one today). Afterwards, I uprooted and replanted some plants, added prime to the tank, and then filled it up. I then noticed that one harlequin and one cardinal lost control of their swim bladders.
The harlequin is especially bad, doing flips rapidly and not being able to control anything, laying upside down on the substrate and getting blown around by the filter when it ventures into the stream. The cardinal was pretty much just sedentary on the substrate but is now swimming around a little bit.
I added 3mL more of Prime into the tank after I saw this, not knowing what to do (55G tank, so it's not that much Prime). Has this happened to anybody else? What is going on here? I do this routine every single week for over a year now, and this is the first time that this has happened.... I'm clueless as to what happened unless my tapwater params changed drastically or something.... help!:icon_cry:
I just did my normal weekly water change on my fish tank (~60 or 70% this time, usually i do 50-60% but did a little bit larger one today). Afterwards, I uprooted and replanted some plants, added prime to the tank, and then filled it up. I then noticed that one harlequin and one cardinal lost control of their swim bladders.
The harlequin is especially bad, doing flips rapidly and not being able to control anything, laying upside down on the substrate and getting blown around by the filter when it ventures into the stream. The cardinal was pretty much just sedentary on the substrate but is now swimming around a little bit.
I added 3mL more of Prime into the tank after I saw this, not knowing what to do (55G tank, so it's not that much Prime). Has this happened to anybody else? What is going on here? I do this routine every single week for over a year now, and this is the first time that this has happened.... I'm clueless as to what happened unless my tapwater params changed drastically or something.... help!:icon_cry: