Hi, new to Forum and need some advice,had 3 figure8 for past 3 weeks and the smallest one got caught in the oil catcher on filter since then his belly is almost always grey until the lights go off the other two are totally fine all eating and moving around constantly just that I've read about about the fish being stressed is this the case?
Tank is 197 UK liters 0 ammonia 0.25
nitrites 10 nitrates 1004 salinity.
Grey belly on figure8
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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.
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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.
Read this before posting!!
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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Re: Grey belly on figure8
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Re: Grey belly on figure8
1.
0 ammonia 0.25 nitrites 20 nitrates ph8 salinity 1004
2
197liters 43 UK gallons 3 figure8 all about 2"
3
Feeding once a day
20% water changes every 2 days using reeflowers water conditioner and stress guard and adding waterlife bacteria at the stated dose
4
No changes in tank at all apart from water changes
5
The tank has been cycled for about 3 months using media from my dwarf puffer tank it also housed my fahaka for a month till he got his new tank,
It all started about 2weeks ago that he got caught in the oil catcher near the surface he went grey on his belly then we noticed when the light goes off it turns white again,soon as the light goes back on he goes grey again also when feeding time he goes really dark grey, he was pretty amiciated when I bought him so I did treat the water for worms.
He seems OK in himself swimming normal eats like a pig no agreesion from any of them, the nitrites showing are from abit of an ammonia spike caused by over feeding and turning the water to brackish but he was like this before
0 ammonia 0.25 nitrites 20 nitrates ph8 salinity 1004
2
197liters 43 UK gallons 3 figure8 all about 2"
3
Feeding once a day
20% water changes every 2 days using reeflowers water conditioner and stress guard and adding waterlife bacteria at the stated dose
4
No changes in tank at all apart from water changes
5
The tank has been cycled for about 3 months using media from my dwarf puffer tank it also housed my fahaka for a month till he got his new tank,
It all started about 2weeks ago that he got caught in the oil catcher near the surface he went grey on his belly then we noticed when the light goes off it turns white again,soon as the light goes back on he goes grey again also when feeding time he goes really dark grey, he was pretty amiciated when I bought him so I did treat the water for worms.
He seems OK in himself swimming normal eats like a pig no agreesion from any of them, the nitrites showing are from abit of an ammonia spike caused by over feeding and turning the water to brackish but he was like this before