crayfish pinched my fahaka in the neck! what to do?
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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.
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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: crayfish pinched my fahaka in the neck! what to do?
can they eat the thick shells? like crab, lobster, mussels ect.. and if not? how do you get them their crunchy foods? (other than snails) cause snails are like $3 to $4 bucks everywhere around me, which is OUTRAGEOUS! and ive already robbed everyone of their neusance snails lol
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Mac Myers
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Re: crayfish pinched my fahaka in the neck! what to do?
Does anyone know what the white "bumps" on the Crayfish are? I've seen them and assumed that they were a parasite of some kind.
I think any shells that are too thick are handled by ripping the meant from the underside of the animal.
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zookey
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Re: crayfish pinched my fahaka in the neck! what to do?
The spots on the cray almost look like Nerite snail eggs from your picture.
If that were a goldfish instead of a crayfish I would say breeding stars. Maybe?
If that were a goldfish instead of a crayfish I would say breeding stars. Maybe?
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J-P
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Re: crayfish pinched my fahaka in the neck! what to do?
possibly Sprirorbids?
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Re: crayfish pinched my fahaka in the neck! what to do?
at my grocery store, ill pick up a 1/2 a pound of shrimp/clam/ect., its ususally less than 3 dollars and it lasts a while
i just freeze it and then cut off what i need, thaw it and feed
i just freeze it and then cut off what i need, thaw it and feed