Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
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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.
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FrogLover007
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Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
Hello. I have had 3 Indian mudskippers with some mollies in a cycled 35 gallon. So far everything has been going smoothly but today, along with my shipment tragedy (RIP $100 worth of fish) one of the skippers is flashing. He is out on land when he does this and I have only seen him do it on this one piece of cork bark. Makes no sense. Do they do this a lot or does he have parasites/some other form of irritation. Is he just wierd? He is still acting like the same aggressive alpha fish he was when I got him just every now and then he flashes. Any ideas?
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Re: Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
pufferpuggirl keeps mudskippers - perhaps you could pm her?
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Re: Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
Sounds like parasites to me but i know nothing about mudskippers. Try adding Melafix to the tank to sooth his skin.
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Re: Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
I used to have mudskippers never saw them roll whilst on water
... but when they were on land they would roll on the side and then turn right over... I read somewhere that they do it to keep their body moist
... but when they were on land they would roll on the side and then turn right over... I read somewhere that they do it to keep their body moist
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Re: Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
They do it in the wild to keep moist but make sure that he isn't injured just to be sure.
I'm only assuming here but I'd guess that you don't have a sand bank for the skippies to get in and out of the water easily? He probably stays out of the water as much as possible because the depth of water and the presence of fairly large fish intimidate him.
Do you mean that he flashes his dorsal fin as well? If so then that is to display his dominance to any rivals.
I'm only assuming here but I'd guess that you don't have a sand bank for the skippies to get in and out of the water easily? He probably stays out of the water as much as possible because the depth of water and the presence of fairly large fish intimidate him.
Do you mean that he flashes his dorsal fin as well? If so then that is to display his dominance to any rivals.
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j_wishbone
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Re: Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
Id agree
in a local petshop they had puffers and mudskipper mixed together
but the mudskippers never touches the water... and you could tell why
they almost had no tail fins left..
and it was just one of those turtle floats ... that doesnt retain water.
anyways.. I agree that if theres fishes in the water.. they will stay away from it
in a local petshop they had puffers and mudskipper mixed together
but the mudskippers never touches the water... and you could tell why
they almost had no tail fins left..
and it was just one of those turtle floats ... that doesnt retain water.
anyways.. I agree that if theres fishes in the water.. they will stay away from it
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Re: Mudskipper Flashing/Rolling
bigfatfish wrote:pufferpuggirl keeps mudskippers - perhaps you could pm her?
+1 Suzanne would be your best bet!
