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did a 25% water change, put another dose of IP medication in the water. Still praying that my guy makes it through, but i'm starting to doubt it since he spends more time hiding under a rock pretending to be dead to the world than he does swimming. He's gotten to the point where he only swims for maybe 15 minutes a day, and thats only because i'm feeding him.

I have a 32g Rubbermaid Brute that I use to premix my WC water for my BW 46g F8 tank...

Anyways, I took on those 3 juvenile F8s a while back and I have 2 in a 15g and 1 in a 10g, and I went to do a 50% WC in their tanks early this evening and drained the tanks...I then checked my SG in my WC vessel and it was at 1.002...I forgot to add salt after the last WC a few days ago! My goal is always 1.005 and these tanks were at nearly at 1.006. I always check b4 WC and have never forgot b4. UGH!

So I then added salt to the vessel and broke out my backup pump and added it to the vessel to help mix the salt...2 hours later it mixed and I was good to go.


BTW, Two of these F8 guys will be up for adoption soon. I've had them for two months and treated for IPs and they are 100% healthy.

LongGrain wrote:did a 25% water change, put another dose of IP medication in the water.

Are you medicating his food?

Pufferpunk wrote:

LongGrain wrote:did a 25% water change, put another dose of IP medication in the water.

Are you medicating his food?

yea, but he still won't eat it, he swims at it, but when he gets closer he turns his head. I don't think he likes the taste, so he hasn't eaten much in the last couple days.

Ordered some amazon sword online. I just hope my fahaka will like them along with a few big tree stump decor. More plants to be bought if everything goes well with the swords. Only thing left to buy is 100lb of sand. Then I can transfers his 2" long body to his massive 120g and be done with quarantine period.

LongGrain wrote:yea, but he still won't eat it, he swims at it, but when he gets closer he turns his head. I don't think he likes the taste, so he hasn't eaten much in the last couple days.

Maybe less meds? I think you're using some garlic too, right? You don't need much of either. What foods? Are they his favorite? Try live earthworms.

LongGrain wrote:yea, but he still won't eat it, he swims at it, but when he gets closer he turns his head. I don't think he likes the taste, so he hasn't eaten much in the last couple days.

Maybe less meds? I think you're using some garlic too, right? You don't need much of either. What foods? Are they his favorite? Try live earthworms.

well his favorite are snails. I've been soaking small chunks of his bloodworms in the meds to thaw them. I'm using maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of a tablet in with them, I thought that was probably too much, but wasn't sure. Should I try like a real small sliver of the tablet? Its kind of hard to break it precisely, but I had a feeling I was using too big of chunks.

should I put some snails in a cup with the meds? I think all of the snails I have for him right now might be too big for him to eat live, but I could always break them for him, or stop in and grab some smaller ones at the lfs.

He's always really dark colored/black belly when he's laying at the bottom of the tank (much of the day...), but as soon as he gets up and starts swimming around, like when I'm feeding him, or in the morning/early afternoon when I turn his day lights on for the day, his color gets really bright and his belly goes back to white.

It's gonna kill the snails anyway. Smash them & let him get at the meat. From the way you are describing him, I think you have a real chance of saving him.

smash them before putting them in with the medication? or after?

once again, I appreciate all of the help. I feel bad for mucking the whole forum up with my sick fish problems haha. I really should just make my own thread in the hospital section.

Just some minor cleaning after being on vacation for week . Only lost 1 pepper mint shrimp , not too bad !

Peteys tank was a construction zone earlier, Water change,wall scrub,power head moved and moved his aquascape around . Had too since Fil the flounder( yes fil like fillet, lol ) moved in . Loads of crabs got put in yesterday as well . Still got to do water change in the Lionfish(Leo) / Eel (ernie) tank . Busy day off, lol .

after my air trapped incident with my GSP i would probably be scared in the future to do tank work with the puff in there so he doesnt dart around. i would possibly transfer him into something for the time being then put him back. i dunno though im probably just being paranoid

i did nothing to my tank today, because i have none

Petey is good, he just gets in the way ! Always wanting to see what im doing ! Just afraid hes gonna bite my finger thinking there food .

Camille's a good girl - she just pouts in the corner of the tank while I'm working in it. She has got my fingers a couple of times, though.

chuckfriedrice wrote:Petey is good, he just gets in the way ! Always wanting to see what im doing ! Just afraid hes gonna bite my finger thinking there food .