Water not right,so not eating-think has bends? help
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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.
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.
Water not right,so not eating-think has bends? help
ok so if looked at my other post you will see that my puffers wouldnt eat, we found out that the water wasnt right for god knows what reason, so we've been doing water changes when told by the fish shop owner to sort water out so they will eat. now they seem happy-one fish seems fine- the other is still abit black and his eyes are dark as well. to make matters worse bubbles seem to have stuck to them both and i've looked to see if it was so kind of worm, but they looked more like bubbles, which apparently is the bends? what do i do now? all seems to be goin very wrong, and we are tryin very hard and the horrible thing is we tested this tank and we got the fish shop to test it and yet its still all gone wrong.
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Re: Water not right,so not eating-think has bends? help
There is nothing wrong with bubbles, your fish do not have the bends, LOL.
What were the water parameters?
Could you please repeat the problem you are having--tank mates, tank size, what kind of puffers, etc?
What were the water parameters?
Could you please repeat the problem you are having--tank mates, tank size, what kind of puffers, etc?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
Re: Water not right,so not eating-think has bends? help
hi, we've got to leopard puffer fish in freshwater. we found out why there not eating as there is ammonia in the water, so were doing small water changes every other day and also using safe start as apparently this live bacteria will help lower the levels. but now we noticed that little bubbles were stuck on their skin, but now we look closer they look more like little white things? they look like they have a thin layer of film on them and it looks like there covered in salt(this strange white stuff) went to fish shop and he didnt have a clue, so now im thinkin they might have a diease? what do u think?
Re: Water not right,so not eating-think has bends? help
Stop using this stuff! it's only making the problem worse. (dead bacteria adding more bio-load)Avid wrote:using safe start as apparently this live bacteria will help lower the levels.
Do large water changes instead of small water changes. Find some SeaChem Prime, it will help to detoxify the ammonia/nitrite.
You may also want to look for Bio-Spira, it's the only live bacteria that's proven to work. (It should be refrigerated)
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Re: Water not right,so not eating-think has bends? help
Check in pufferpedia which puffer you actually have, or post a picture and we can tell you. Do large water changes every day. Make sure to add water dechlorinater to it. Only bio-spira will help add bacteria, stop adding the other stuff.Avid wrote:hi, we've got to leopard puffer fish in freshwater. we found out why there not eating as there is ammonia in the water, so were doing small water changes every other day and also using safe start as apparently this live bacteria will help lower the levels.
The small white grains is ich. Follow this to treat. http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... tal/fwich/Avid wrote:but now we noticed that little bubbles were stuck on their skin, but now we look closer they look more like little white things? they look like they have a thin layer of film on them and it looks like there covered in salt(this strange white stuff) went to fish shop and he didnt have a clue, so now im thinkin they might have a diease? what do u think?