Hi
My F8 seeems to have a piece of mussel stuck in her teeth and looks a bit miserable. I gave her a few brine shrimp to chase around which she did and she ate a few but they didn't seem to dislodge anything!!! I will give her a couple of snails in the morning which may also do the job,
Any other ideas if they don't???
Sue
food stuck in teeth
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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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I have had to catch my fahaka to disloge a crab leg from his mouth. You might want to look into trimming his teeth.
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susiejames101
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I am going into town to buy clove oil tomorrow just in case!!! I have been watching her teeth and I didn't think they looked too long, it was after her dinner tonight I noticed the bit of white stuff stuck in her mouth.
I can't say as I am looking forwards to teeth clipping, she is a very skittish fish and I am terrified of upsetting her or her jumping out of the bowl of water!!!
Fingers crossed that the food dislodges itself !!
Sue
I can't say as I am looking forwards to teeth clipping, she is a very skittish fish and I am terrified of upsetting her or her jumping out of the bowl of water!!!
Fingers crossed that the food dislodges itself !!
Sue
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I would get it out asap. I lost a DP to a piece of bloodworm.The first time I left it afew days to work its own way loose. I lost sight of him for a couple of days and when I found him a fungus had grown over the bloodworm and over part of his head.I had left it to late.When it happened to another DP I removed him from the tank in a very small container and removed the bloodworm with tweezers.He's fine today!
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susiejames101
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Well I bought the clove oil today and when i had got home she had dislodged the food herself 
so crisis over. She is back to her normal self again today and begging for food more than usual, so hopefully I have escaped the dreaded clove oil on this occaision. Her teeth don't look so bad but I am going to try and persuade her to eat a few more snails, the little minx tends not to bother with them if she thinks she might get something else to eat and I often have to pick out untouched dead snails out of her tank.I do wish there were some brackish varietys of snails I could use for her ! She may have to go hungry for a day and see if she is more keen to eat them then
Thanks for all the help
Sue
so crisis over. She is back to her normal self again today and begging for food more than usual, so hopefully I have escaped the dreaded clove oil on this occaision. Her teeth don't look so bad but I am going to try and persuade her to eat a few more snails, the little minx tends not to bother with them if she thinks she might get something else to eat and I often have to pick out untouched dead snails out of her tank.I do wish there were some brackish varietys of snails I could use for her ! She may have to go hungry for a day and see if she is more keen to eat them thenThanks for all the help
Sue