RIP carinotetraodon irrubesco

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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.

1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.

5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.

We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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gkai
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RIP carinotetraodon irrubesco

Post by gkai »

My male red eye died tonight,

He was not eating since a few days and acting very shy. Yesterday he was resting at a more than 90 degree angle (more than vertical, belly slightly facing the surface but not completely upside-down), and before that he was often at 90 degree those last few days....but even with those strange resting positions, he was coordinated and level when he moved around (even if a little bit slow)...
Not sure exactly what happened, he was not emaciated, no bite marks, fins looking good, no rapid breathing....but the skull shape and mouth area looked a bit strange, like too much male (mouth is facing more upward on the male than the female, and it was more and more so those last days, at least I had this impression). Also, he had strange eating difficulties since about a month, like he had to "prepare" before eating with various mouth motion, and was not biting through his squid pieces as easily as before....Didn't look like overgrown teeth though, at least from pictures I got from the net....

The female red eye, guppies and amano shrimps look fine, no difference in appearance or behavior....

I suspect old age or some kind of tumor, but who knows :(...
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Re: RIP carinotetraodon irrubesco

Post by Welch4 »

Sorry for your loss. :rip:
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Re: RIP carinotetraodon irrubesco

Post by TheStig »

Sorry for your loss. :( :( They are so easy and quick to love, it's hard when we lose them. Glad to hear ur other puff is doing well.
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