porc and dog face not quite right
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:21 pm
The run down:
I've had my procupine in this tank for about 3 months. Up until about 3 weeks ago he was happy go lucky. ate everything put into the tank. Played with me at the glass as long as I would sit there with him and when he saw the green net he came a runnin. recently he has been very lazy, lays on the bottom of the tank or on a rock. Still pretty interested in eating, but nothing like before. breathing seems to be labored from time to time. Almost refuses to play at the glass with me. I added the dog face 5 weeks ago and he seems to be fine aside from being a little twitchy every now and then and rubbing his gills on the sand and rock sometimes. Did the addition of the dog face make my porc start acting like thing? if so he waited a while to start showing these signs.
I was running the tank at 80deg and 1.026 Sg. I lowered the temp to 78 and the Sg to 1.024 and a day or so later he started acting a little better, but nothing like before. A couple of weeks after adding the DF the ammonia spiked a bit and I did 20% water changes everyother day for about 10 days. That fixed the ammonia problem.
Both puffers are about 5" long. They are in a 29G tank (I know its to small, but i have a 120g i'm getting ready to cycle) with 3 large hermit crabs, 3 turbo snails, 10-12lbs of live rock, and 60lbs of live sand.
There are no external signs of parasites or disease. I'm confused! He responded well to the drop in temp and Sg.
Diet: EVERYTHING (haha) they eat better than I do. live= crayfish, ghost shrimp, crabs, guppys, minnows, bamboo shrimp(when the lfs is out of crayfish)/ frozen= krill, silversides, bloodworms
Conditions:
PH - 8.3
Ammonia - 0-0.1
Nitrates - 10-15
Nitrites - .75-1
SG - 1.024
Temp - 78
Please help! StayPuff (porc) is my buddy.
I've had my procupine in this tank for about 3 months. Up until about 3 weeks ago he was happy go lucky. ate everything put into the tank. Played with me at the glass as long as I would sit there with him and when he saw the green net he came a runnin. recently he has been very lazy, lays on the bottom of the tank or on a rock. Still pretty interested in eating, but nothing like before. breathing seems to be labored from time to time. Almost refuses to play at the glass with me. I added the dog face 5 weeks ago and he seems to be fine aside from being a little twitchy every now and then and rubbing his gills on the sand and rock sometimes. Did the addition of the dog face make my porc start acting like thing? if so he waited a while to start showing these signs.
I was running the tank at 80deg and 1.026 Sg. I lowered the temp to 78 and the Sg to 1.024 and a day or so later he started acting a little better, but nothing like before. A couple of weeks after adding the DF the ammonia spiked a bit and I did 20% water changes everyother day for about 10 days. That fixed the ammonia problem.
Both puffers are about 5" long. They are in a 29G tank (I know its to small, but i have a 120g i'm getting ready to cycle) with 3 large hermit crabs, 3 turbo snails, 10-12lbs of live rock, and 60lbs of live sand.
There are no external signs of parasites or disease. I'm confused! He responded well to the drop in temp and Sg.
Diet: EVERYTHING (haha) they eat better than I do. live= crayfish, ghost shrimp, crabs, guppys, minnows, bamboo shrimp(when the lfs is out of crayfish)/ frozen= krill, silversides, bloodworms
Conditions:
PH - 8.3
Ammonia - 0-0.1
Nitrates - 10-15
Nitrites - .75-1
SG - 1.024
Temp - 78
Please help! StayPuff (porc) is my buddy.
wih the waste that the porcupine and dogface are making. think of craming 20 people into a telephone booth! so the amonia rises, nitrite rises, nitrate rises, and eventually the fish really start suffering.