Tank Mates and HELP URGENTLY

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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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Hilly wrote:I wouldnt even bother with the bloodworm for him, big puffers just seem to ignore it as far too much effort to warrant moving for it. At least you have other fish that will take it.

Surprising as it is, my BeeBoo still eats bloodworm. I watched him doing it tonight even, and that wasn't odd as I've seen him sucking it up before. He will eat the main food I offer him, and then when feeding time is over, he will scavenge around the tank sucking up the bloodworm that's fallen to the substrate (and any other pieces of food that interest him). I'm sure my Fire eel isn't too happy about BeeBoo taking the bloodworm, but what's he going to do? You'd think a big puffer like BeeBoo wouldn't be interested in small bloodworm, but sure enough, I've watched him hoovering it up. :D
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Yeah, so does Filbert but only because his tank mates get them. He's destroyed more cone feeders than I can afford to buy him.
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PP I thought Filbert was all alone? What are his tank mates?
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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Filbert has lots of tank mates :) Lucky!
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Good evening to you all, it's now 22.20 here in Blighty, Midge has just eaten his muscle, i think he sets a new record every night :D :D one minute it's there then gone.
After his episode when he went quite for a few days (thanks all who gave advice) he has now made up for it, swimming none stop all day, and I must point out negative comments made by certain individuals towards my fish keeping, which did upset me with one of the comments, Midge is looking and enjoying his set up, if I thought any fish was stressing him, or like my Severums taken his food, they were removed from his tank.
I have entered a picture of him, but I missed the deadline, so I have asked Lisa to place it on next months competition so look out for him and even perhaps voxx for him Lol 8)
Well that's my news for this topic that I started, will post anything new about Midge with a topic name.

One last thing I have also moved my two Red eye puffers in his tank , which I did about 2 weeks ago, all 3 seem to get on fine.
I take on advice, but refuse to be bullied by those who think they are in control!! Mikey
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