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Fish is slowly dying, need help |
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By: justinp Date: April 22, 2015, 6:51 am |
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I recently got a lethrinops kande albus island and the past |
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three or four days he has been very lathargic, not swimming |
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around, not interacting with any other fish, not eating, and I'm |
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pretty sure I noticed black waste coming out of him. I can tell |
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he's breathing hard, and I'm sure if I don't try something soon |
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he's going to die. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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All water levels are excellent, we feed NLS cichlid with small |
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amounts of krill gold from Northfin. He lives with about 15 |
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other africans that seem to be doing well, including the other |
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fish I got at the same time as this one. |
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Re: Fish is slowly dying, need help |
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By: PaulMartin61 Date: April 22, 2015, 5:03 pm |
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Have you witnessed any bullying? |
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Being a 'new' fish, at least to your community, some fish take |
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longer to get over their shyness. Hopefully this is the case. |
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Dark waist in my experiences doesn't alarm me. I'm more |
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concerned about why he's not eating. Does he 'taste' the food |
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and spit it out? |
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Perhaps moving him to a separate tank, and dosing with Prime or |
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other 'stress coat' product to increase his slime coat may be |
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all you need. |
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This clearly is only a starting point. Sorry I couldn't advise |
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more, but do please keep us informed how it's going. |
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Paul |
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Re: Fish is slowly dying, need help |
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By: justinp Date: April 22, 2015, 7:41 pm |
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Well unfortunately he died this afternoon. We decided to put |
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him in a 5gal quarantine tank before work and treat with |
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aaquarium salt, but he had died by the time my wife came home |
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for lunch. Not sure if it was the salt, the water in the |
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quarantine was perfect being it hadn't had a fish in it since we |
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set it up. He never seemed to get bullied, as far as we could |
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tell watching him. The bigger problem is this is the third fish |
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in four months with the exact same illness. It's wierd they |
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don't all get it at once, one fish will die then 3 weeks later |
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another fish will start to have the same symptoms. Really |
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neeed to get it figured out before it happens again. |
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