i feed him 6 days a week usually eats 2 pieces of krill.....but the day after he diddent eat he only ate a small pieces yesterday adn now today not eating at all.....hes loosing weight for shure...but hard to tell whats going on beacuse hes normally unactive and just sitting in his cave.....i dotn wanna loose this little guy.
i always put a piece of thawed out krill ona stick and he eats right off that beacuse he wont eat it off the floor.
T.Turgidus not eating :s
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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.
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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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T.Turgidus not eating :s
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20 Gallon with a pair of golden wonder killies, whiptail catfish and ghost shrimp.
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20 Gallon with a pair of golden wonder killies, whiptail catfish and ghost shrimp.
10 gallon with serpaes,glowlight and one old bleeding heart tetra, common pleco 2 weather loaches one regular and one golden as well as 3 zebra danios. ( overstocked for shure...but nothing ever dies in this tank and is extremly healthy ).
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Re: T.Turgidus not eating :s
Hi there I have moved your thread to the hospital section. Pleasea answer all the Questions in red above your post and we will be able to help more.
For the record feeding them 6 days a week is a bit excessive anyway, most people recomend once a week as fine for these types of puffers, many of them can happily go without food for 2 weeks. The main concern is what you are feeding. Krill is notoriously poor in it nutritional value, the best thing to feed them is mussels and prawns. If you haven't had the puffer long it could be down to many thing, answeer the Q's above and we'll help you a bit more
For the record feeding them 6 days a week is a bit excessive anyway, most people recomend once a week as fine for these types of puffers, many of them can happily go without food for 2 weeks. The main concern is what you are feeding. Krill is notoriously poor in it nutritional value, the best thing to feed them is mussels and prawns. If you haven't had the puffer long it could be down to many thing, answeer the Q's above and we'll help you a bit more