Porcupine Fish stressed presumably due to Nitrate spike.
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 10:58 am
1: water parameters
Ph:8.3
Salinity: 1.023
Ammonia 0 , Nitrite 0, Nitrates 40: unable to detect
2: 75 gallon (I understand this is a bit small for a Porcupine Fish, but it’s only about 4inches so I thought it would be fine for a start) Inhabitants: Porcupine Fish, 2 Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
3: Food: Shrimp, Squid, Nightcrawlers, Clams, Octopus, Cuttlefish.
Salt/water and Waterchanges: Instant Ocean for full water changes, “Real Pacific Ocean water” by Imagintarium for partial water changes which occur every week (Saturdays)
4: I shifted the rocks around a bit, but not much.
5:The aquarium has been running for a total of 6 months.
*If I missed anything or have any advice to help improve my care please let me know *
Hello, my fish was doing fine all last week and then I noticed it kind of changed behavior on 2/27 but was still eating , and then on 2/28 (yesterday) I noticed that it would not accept food and was breathing a bit fast with its mouth open swimming around in a dazed sort of way. I then did a water test as I thought my Nitrate may have spiked and as the results of the test shown Nitrate was up about 40ppm. I suddenly then did a water change about 40% and left the fish alone to hopefully destress, but going back to check on it this morning it seems to be in the same sort of condition. Is it possible I did to big of a water change and shocked it ? I didn’t think it would as I do water changes weekly but this seems to be what may have happened. Should I do another water change today ? I’m not exactly sure what had occurred but I’m assuming it’s due to feeding to much and forgetting to clean the l filter out last week. Would it be beneficial to add and aerator to the aquarium ? I will also like to mention I did add a dose to sea Chem prime the day prior tooI’m not sure if that was good to do or not. Any advice will be helpful , thank you so much !
Ph:8.3
Salinity: 1.023
Ammonia 0 , Nitrite 0, Nitrates 40: unable to detect
2: 75 gallon (I understand this is a bit small for a Porcupine Fish, but it’s only about 4inches so I thought it would be fine for a start) Inhabitants: Porcupine Fish, 2 Blue Legged Hermit Crabs
3: Food: Shrimp, Squid, Nightcrawlers, Clams, Octopus, Cuttlefish.
Salt/water and Waterchanges: Instant Ocean for full water changes, “Real Pacific Ocean water” by Imagintarium for partial water changes which occur every week (Saturdays)
4: I shifted the rocks around a bit, but not much.
5:The aquarium has been running for a total of 6 months.
*If I missed anything or have any advice to help improve my care please let me know *
Hello, my fish was doing fine all last week and then I noticed it kind of changed behavior on 2/27 but was still eating , and then on 2/28 (yesterday) I noticed that it would not accept food and was breathing a bit fast with its mouth open swimming around in a dazed sort of way. I then did a water test as I thought my Nitrate may have spiked and as the results of the test shown Nitrate was up about 40ppm. I suddenly then did a water change about 40% and left the fish alone to hopefully destress, but going back to check on it this morning it seems to be in the same sort of condition. Is it possible I did to big of a water change and shocked it ? I didn’t think it would as I do water changes weekly but this seems to be what may have happened. Should I do another water change today ? I’m not exactly sure what had occurred but I’m assuming it’s due to feeding to much and forgetting to clean the l filter out last week. Would it be beneficial to add and aerator to the aquarium ? I will also like to mention I did add a dose to sea Chem prime the day prior tooI’m not sure if that was good to do or not. Any advice will be helpful , thank you so much !