here is a pic of it.
Untitled by boosted23, on Flickr
fahaka pooping white bubble string
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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.
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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fahaka pooping white bubble string
i did a waterchange on my tank and noticed my fahaka just laying on the substrate not moving. last day or two he hasn' t really been eating. i soaked some bloodworms in garlic guard and dropped it in the tank. he bagan to swim and i noticed he has a poop coming out that is white and has little bubles in it.. i dont know what it is or cant really find anything about it. does anyone know what it is and how i should treat it? i dosed melafix. hopefully someone here can tell me.
here is a pic of it.
Untitled by boosted23, on Flickr
here is a pic of it.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Has he been treated for IPs?
library/hospital/internal-parasites-pre ... treatment/
library/hospital/internal-parasites-pre ... treatment/
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
no not yet. some people said do it as soon as you get it, others said wait till you see symptoms. of course this had to happen on christmas eve and christmas as to where i cant find an open pet store, so now i have to wait till tomorrow.... its bugging the crap out of me that i cant get it now... i really dont want him to die. i wont be able to dose him till tomorrow evening. i have a 10 gallon i can quarantine him into for treatment.he is still tiny enough to put in there for a couple of days of treatment
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Fish can live months with IPs. He looks great--not to worry. 
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
thank you p.p. i was gettin stressed out. 
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Yea just grab some meds as soon as you can, remember they must be treated internally.
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Well, at this point he is not eating. I am gonna have to treat the water first to see if it peps up his appetite. I Am still gonna soak his food in it and hopefully he eats it. The 10 gallon tank will be easier to feed him in cause its so hard in the 150 gallon with him being so small in such a large tank.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Soak the food in garlic, too.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Yea don't waste your money treating the water, it won't do anything
It's amazing how easy maintenance is. If done regularly and thoroughly
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
I just got that garlic guard seacham makes. i soaked some bloodworms in it lastnight but he didnt even think about eating them. I hope he eats now. after that white string which i think might have been a worm came out of him, he has been swimming around now. hopefully his appetite picks up also.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Try live earthworms. You can inject them with the meds.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
I picked up some seachem metronidazole from a l.f.s. I am gonna transfer the little guy into the 10 gallon and garlic guard, and med soak some bloodworms to see if he will eat this. if not i will go and get some worms and inject them with this medication. hopefully this works or i will be ordering prazi pro for him.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
off topic, and my eyes could be playing tricks on me, but that seems like a lot of substrate.
I hope the little fella gets better, he does not look to be in too bad a condition.
I hope the little fella gets better, he does not look to be in too bad a condition.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
He is in a planted tank. I have 120lbs of eco-complete in my 150 gallon. Its about 2 inches thick.
I drained all the water out of the 10 gallon and transfer water from his 150 into it. That way i could put him right in and he wont get stressed from different parameters. I am soaking bloodworms in garlic guard and med right now. I will see if he eats it. He is small enough that he has a decent amount of space in the tank. He is still expelling white string from him. Hopefully he eats and this works.
I drained all the water out of the 10 gallon and transfer water from his 150 into it. That way i could put him right in and he wont get stressed from different parameters. I am soaking bloodworms in garlic guard and med right now. I will see if he eats it. He is small enough that he has a decent amount of space in the tank. He is still expelling white string from him. Hopefully he eats and this works.
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Re: fahaka pooping white bubble string
Water is not all that Important, bacteria does not metabolize in it either way. Only on surfaces of glass, decor, subtrate and the filter media. You could have just added your current subtrate, sponge from the filter and thats it. Tap water with primes better than old tankwater
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