1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate).
PH: 7.6
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 25 (last water change: 4 days ago)
Salinity: tap water
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.
Tank size: 120 x 45 x 60 (yea it's not big enough, I am still working on it.)
1 fahaka, around 15 cm
1 Macrobrachium lar around 5 cm (fahaka never bothered to eat it for some reason.)
10~30 ghost shrimps
2 guppy
numerous kinds of snails
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)
Usually feed the fahaka with freeze dried krill and ramshorn snails, I tried other food like frozen shrimps, crab etc but fahaka doesn't seems to appreciate it.
I usually feed him when I see him begging for food, which is once around 2~5 days, always keep the tank with some ghost shrimp so he can catch his own food when I am too lazy.
water changes once a week.
each water change will add 40 cc Ista NH/CL aqua reliever and 5 cc Ista black water extract
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.
nothing much is changed in the tank last week other than adding some ghost shrimp, the problem have been there since I bought the fahaka.
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.
The tank is set up around 10 months ago, cycled for 27 days before introducing the fahaka.
I first bought my fahaka when it's only around 2 cm, it grew very fast indeed, it used to have tapeworms on him but I got rid of it with waterlife anti-parasites after 3 months since I bought it.
however there is something about it that always makes me worried, the left fin of the fahaka doesn't seems to grow as big as the right fin, here is a video of it.
https://youtu.be/qK2aPlojpa8
It is obvious that it's left fin is really tiny compare to an average fahaka, it's been like that since I bought it.
doesn't really looks like fin rot to me, and it's acting pretty normal, eating stuff, greeting me and throwing a tantrum occasionally.
what's wrong with it? how should I help it?
Is it a problem with it's genetics?
Fahaka fin anomaly
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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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Re: Fahaka fin anomaly
Why are you adding blackwater extract? These fish come from neutral water, not soft/acid water that that additive produces.
You MUST get this fish onto different foods. Krill is a bad staple diet.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... r-puffers/
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You MUST get this fish onto different foods. Krill is a bad staple diet.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... r-puffers/
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... ur-puffer/
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 fin anomaly
Pufferpunk wrote:Why are you adding blackwater extract? These fish come from neutral water, not soft/acid water that that additive produces.
You MUST get this fish onto different foods. Krill is a bad staple diet.
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... r-puffers/
http://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/lib ... ur-puffer/
The tap water here are rather alkaline, sometimes at ph 8.0, the aquarium clerk suggested me to add black water extract to lower the ph.
arrggh I tried so many times feeding him something different, it always took a bite and ignore me, there are a few times it took a bite and start smashing it's face on the glass.
I can't even get it to change the brand of the krill, I swear TetraKrill-E have cocaine in it, it's so expensive and addictive.
oh well, I will stop adding black water extract and try feeding something different.
Do you have any suggestion on lowering the ph?