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one of my suvattii is panting and rolling about listlessly on the bottom of the tank. the other seems quite happy. Ammonia Nitrate and Nitrite are all zero but i did a 25% water change just to be safe. I`ve also turned off the lights to be on the safe side. can anybody help with suggestions

If you look at any Hospital Forum post, you'll see a list of questions in red at the top of the page. Please answer those. Then we can help you better. Also, are you sure that your nitrates are at zero? That's a sign of an uncycled tank.

as i said all test are zero. tank was started with squeezings from my 5ft tank and i`m monitoring the water daily. Its a 4 ft tank running with a sump. no food has been added yet and i`m not using any other additives. water was changed this morning before adding the squeezings and the fish were acclimatised over 2 hours with water dripping into their smaller tank, all water has been dechlorinated and bought up to temp before being used. I hope i have answered all the questions?

BUGGER !!!just lost him. just read an article on them sucking in air went out to burp him and he was dead! learnt the hard way!!!

Sorry to hear that.

Sorry to hear that he didn't make it.

LilGreenPuffer wrote:...Also, are you sure that your nitrates are at zero? That's a sign of an uncycled tank.

Actually, this is not necessarily the case: I have two marine tanks with live rock in them, and they both consistently test at 0-0-0. Maybe that's true with freshwater tanks, though.

Very rarely will you ever see FW tanks with nitrate at 0. Maybe extremely understocked or with a veggie fuge but that's about it.

Ugh. That's too bad. Sorry about your suvatti. Is the other one doing okay?