Hi guys!
Info first
80 litre
Nitrate 20
Nitrite 0
PH 7.5
Salinity 1.007
Please help!
We have two F8’s in the tank and in the last week, the smallest has been looking paler and taking longer to darken up when she wakes and not fully going darker sometimes. Her eyes started going a little cloudy so we treated with Melafix. The only tank mate that they had was a bristlenose pleco. The melafix messed them up and we ended up giving the pleco CPR and he has survived.
The F8 is rapidly declining. The lethargy is insane. She really doesn’t want to wake up and spends her day at the bottom of the tank. She tries to come say hi, but ends up nosediving as it seems she doesn’t have the energy.
We have put an anti fungal in and she perked up for half a day today. Now she has drastically declined again.
She has not eaten for 4 days now and that is very unlike her.
This evening she had a TINY amount of white jelly stringy poop but it really was tiny. Her sides are starting to suck in and she doesn’t have her little belly.
We have tried feeding her favourites but she just doesn’t care. We have simulated movement on the food to stimulate the hunting but still no go.
She eats normally every other day and they get a random selection of the following:
Live feeder shrimp
Prawn (with shell)
Cockle (her favourite) sometimes with shell sometimes without
Mussel
Live Blood worm (her other favourite)
Live Mitosis
live Brine shrimp
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! She’s a real part of our family!
F8 desperately need help!
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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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Re: F8 desperately need help!
I assume there is no ammonia in there?
I'm not sure why you're using an anti fungal. I would be using Prazipro to treat internal parasites. Best treated internally by soaking their food, you could try adding garlic to enhance appetite.
I'm not sure why you're using an anti fungal. I would be using Prazipro to treat internal parasites. Best treated internally by soaking their food, you could try adding garlic to enhance appetite.
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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