Please Help With Ollie!
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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.
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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chuckfriedrice
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
Im so sorry !
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
Oh no!!! I'm so sorry... 
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!"
Re: Please Help With Ollie!
Oh no! I'm so sorry.
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xrayjeeper83
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
So sorry for your loss
RTR wrote:Fahakas do not have tank mates, they may have swimming food reserves.
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sevenyearnight
Re: Please Help With Ollie!
I hate that that happened!
Seriously, I am so sorry.
What happened do you think? I was so hoping for his recovery. I am so sad for you.
Seriously, I am so sorry. What happened do you think? I was so hoping for his recovery. I am so sad for you.
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RTR
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
That is rough. You have my sympathy on the loss...
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
You have my heartfelt sympathies for little Ollie, and I feel even more love for my little Jabba and I will do my due diligents to keep him healthy.
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sevenyearnight
Re: Please Help With Ollie!
Is it possible for well water to harbor bacterial diseases?
Re: Please Help With Ollie!
Yes, all of our water, even treated city water very well may contain different bacteria, fungi, and parasites.
It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another. We consider those, when the cerebral structure/intellectual faculties most developed, as highest. A bee doubtless would when the instincts were.
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
aww that sucks .. sorry for the loss.eieio wrote:i lost my little Ollie
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
thank you all for your help, support, and kind words
i feel really gutted right now, but your thoughts and wishes help a bunch
Ollies empty tank sitting on my desk isn't helping at all, and i need to figure out how to deal with it
sterilize everything & put it in mothballs?
toss the sand & media, bleach the rest?
toss it all and be done with it?
for all i know, it may not be unsafe to just use it as it is, but to take a chance?
i don't know, but dealing with the tank is like burying my poor little Ollie all over again
i became terribly attached to him over the five & a half years we were together
i miss him
i feel really gutted right now, but your thoughts and wishes help a bunch
Ollies empty tank sitting on my desk isn't helping at all, and i need to figure out how to deal with it
sterilize everything & put it in mothballs?
toss the sand & media, bleach the rest?
toss it all and be done with it?
for all i know, it may not be unsafe to just use it as it is, but to take a chance?
i don't know, but dealing with the tank is like burying my poor little Ollie all over again
i became terribly attached to him over the five & a half years we were together
i miss him
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
I personally don't think what he had was contagious.
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viewtopic.php?f=13&t=27096
See last post: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=26382&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15
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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eieio
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- Location: Prescott, Arizona
Re: Please Help With Ollie!
i'm thinking along the same line, and might keep the tank in service "as-is"Pufferpunk wrote:I personally don't think what he had was contagious.
it would be good for me to do so
i'll think hard on it, and make a decision...........
thanks Pp
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Pufferpunk
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Re: Please Help With Ollie!
You know how to keep it cycled?
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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eieio
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and.......
The DP:
"cream puff"
RIP cream puff :-( - Location (country): U.S.A.
- Location: Prescott, Arizona
Re: Please Help With Ollie!
until i decide which way to go with it, i figured i'd keep it cycled with fish foodPufferpunk wrote:You know how to keep it cycled?
(flake food & some defrosted bloodworms?)
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