Emergency doesed chimiclean fish acting weird

[Samanthabea]

Just doesed chimiclean put in an airstone now my trigger is against the far wall of the tank and keeps hitting the glass like he can't fight the powerhead

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Chemiclean is erythromycin. That is an antibiotic that shouldn’t cause a quick reaction like that. It can cause issues with your biological filter over time, and people have seen problems with it.
Any other fish in the tank? Are they ok? You should do just what you did and add some aeration just to cover that base.

Jay

 

[Samanthabea]

Just an eel and he went to hiding before I dosed I had to turn the lights off not enough plugins for the air stone the trigger suffered a fin injury 3-4 days back and I've dosed antibacterial could the dosing of chimiclean just stressed him to much

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Just an eel and he went to hiding before I dosed I had to turn the lights off not enough plugins for the air stone the trigger suffered a fin injury 3-4 days back and I've dosed antibacterial could the dosing of chimiclean just stressed him to much

I wonder - what antibiotic did you use? Chemiclean is also an antibiotic - if they are in the same class of drugs, you double dosed the tank.

Jay

 

[Samanthabea]

Kanaplex he seems to be doing better now just avoiding certain spots of the tank

 

[Hypnotoad]

Chemiclean reduces oxygen in the tank. I’m not sure why, but it does.

run an air stone. If you don’t have one, put a power head partially out of the water so it’s blowing a bunch of bubbles in the tank.

Just looked at time stamps for the first and most recent posts, and looks like you’re out of the woods, but years ago when I was just starting I almost killed my clowns treating cyano and kept them from dying with the power head bubble method.

 

[Samanthabea]

I'll have to do that next time in the middle of the water change but still a lot of cyano it has been going down but not as much as I'd like maybe the airstone I used wasn't up to par (had been using it for another qt tank the pump is made for a 55) I'm going to wait though and see if it keeps going down before dosing again