Does anyone else have a fish that seems to be their most sensitive to water conditions? I have a tretocephalus that I like to call our canary in the coal mine. Whenever water conditions are a little "off" he is the first to dull out his colors and sulk. He seems to be the most sensitive to any temperature changes during a water change, to water that hasn't sat long enough to gas out or hasn't sat long enough with dechlorinator. When we bought him as a little baby, adjusted him to the tank water as we do all our new fish, we thought he was going to die. He was just so miserable looking. Now he is our canary. Out of all our fish, his colors brighten the most with a water change.

Hey Poohbear!

I don't have a specific fish as you do, but I do have a couple of
fish that I can tell don't like their living conditions.

Kim keeps some rummy nose tetras and they are supposed to be
sensitive to water conditions as well.

I don't have any fish like that, other than my rummy nose tetras. Their little noses are blood red the day after a water change, but a bit lighter closer to time for the next water change.

We once bought some wild calvus, and thought we had acclimated them pretty well, but when we dropped them into the tank, both of them floated down to the bottom and laid on their sides for awhile - scared us both to death...

I do think some fish require longer acclimations than others...Just wish I knew which ones they were before I dropped them in my tanks!

Kim

Hey Pooh bear

I couldnt help but notice u mentioning somthing letting teh water gass out? or the Dechorinator to take affect? u using buckets? to maintain ur tank?

yikes

If this is true how have u not gone insaine? I don't think I could live without my No spill Syphon hoz that conects to the facet.

But to stay on topic my German red Peacock seems to trip out when I do water changes or any tank Maintainance for that matter. He just chillz out at the bottom corner and shakes like crazy and this only goes down when I do water changes...Other wise hes like the Healthiest and most active one in the tank.

The kitchen sink has a carbon filter, and from this I fill a 40 gallon reservoir tank. I add a small amount of Prime for whatever chlorine the filter doesn't remove, and I heat the water. Then I pump the water into my tanks with a pond pump and hose. Sometimes the Python has worked for me depending on the tank and fish. I notice that there is no shimmying or uncomfortable behaviors when I do my water changes this way. With the Python, the petricola cats would scratch like nuts. The tropheus would occasionally clamp for 20 minutes.

WOW you go to great lengths to make sure new water going into you tank is Clean as a whisle..Good for you man :)

I bet ur fish love u for it, I just simply drain 30 pct of tanks vollume weekly and then treat the tank and fill err up with fresh water from the tap..I turn filters off during this proccess and thats it. I finish 5 tanks in less than an hour.