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If he's not being pushed around in the current then he's still got a chance - fingers crossed. It's curious that the ammonia rose so sharply after only 5 days - did you drastically change the salinity of your tank at a water change?

He's just been swimming in one place all morning,looks ever so slightly sideways. I have to goto work now so I'll update later and run all the water tests again this evening

No I've not changed it at all yet. I was waiting to make sure the water parameters stayed at 0 for a couple of weeks first. I so wish we hadn't run out while I was away, my other half was texting me daily with the figures but I think it was after the 2nd day he ran out. I'm not even sure it's ammonia now, this new test I got (I think sailfort or something like that) is extremely hard to read under incandescent light, I could have easily missread it yesterday. Today it's definitely clear under sunlight.

There was no ammonia at all this morning, the water looks crystal clear. Is it anything else that could have made him sick? I did worm him but only used a tiny sprinkle of that wormer on his bloodworm so I doubt it's that. It's terribly frustrating!

He's definitely not being pushed around and there's quite a lot of current so fingers crossed!

My other half just text me saying he actually looks worse now and is curled up on the tank floor. I've asked him to double check all water tests again just in case

He just text me water tests.
PH 8
AMMONIA 0
NITRITE 0
NITRATE trace amount.

Maurice is still on the bottom looking miserable.

Does he look fat or skinny? If fat then he could be constipated. If skinny then maybe the wormer didn't work or it's something else that's causing it.

I would probably do another 50% water change but add marine salt this time to get the tank to SG1.002@25DegC which will probably work out to be about 1 tablespoon per 5 litres. The increase in salinity might kill off whatever is causing the problem.

Sadly he passed away last night.

very, very sorry sarahnya

I too am sorry. All living creatures are a wonder. The loss of any of them is a grief.

Sorry to hear that

I know it's so sad, even my partner who wasn't really bothered with getting fish to start with was a bit deflated by the experience.

I'm feeding the aquarium ammonia at the moment to keep the filter bacteria alive after doing a complete water change.

Haven't decided what to do yet, I may get another F8 once I'm 100% sure the tank is stable. At the moment it seems to be clearing the ammonia that I'm putting in pretty fast so I'm not sure what happened here.

Are you guys sure that wormer is safe for consumption, I just sprinkled a bit on the blood worm and stirred before adding to the tank? (I have a thread on here about the wormer, I can't remember the branding the top of my head).

Yes, it's safe.

Okay thanks that's reassuring.

I'll give it a few days before I decide what to do now!