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  1. D

    Oscar Cichlid Lost His Mind?

    Hello MonsterFishKeepers, Please excuse me as this is my first post on this forum. I have an Oscar around 12" whom I've owned for about a year and a half now. Like many other New fish keepers, I wasn't aware of the quick growth of Oscars, soI have been playing lots of catch up in that regard...
  2. Manas

    Red tail catfish HELP ASAP!!!!!!!!!

    Help! I bought a new RT-Catfish 4 days ago. He's 4 inches and not accepting any pellets or dried shrimps. I tried to put some shrimps near his mouth and he dosen't eat it. But when i get an earthworm he rushed at my hands and snatched it. Area near my house dissent provide live foods. I got...
  3. Ricardo quezada

    Inactive barred bichir

    Is there a way to make them more active? They just stay at the bottom of the tank and don't do much. They are juveniles about an inch in length. Water conditions are fine. Living with plecos and feeder guppies. TEMPORARY HOUSING . Eventually moving to soemthing large with other predator fish. I...
  4. G

    Flowerhorn not eating pellets

    Hi all. So a week who i bought a flowerhorn. It is currently in a Quarantined/temp tank. My larger tank is being readied as am in the process of resealing. Anyhow. My flowerhorn intially wasnt eating. Assumed and read that moves and new environment can stress them. So put it down to that. I had...
  5. viper0397

    Looking for advice please

    Looking for some advice please. I have 2 retics 3 and 4 years old that have really slowed down considerably on their eating. Of course they are retics so what they eat is very limited. Extremely picky eaters. I have 3 other rays in the same tank that still seem to be eating quite well. 1 retic...
  6. L

    Jardini not eating.

    Hello guys, I don't know why but this jardini that i have has a very weak appetite. I have him since Nov 2016. from 3" now he is about 8". Now he has not been eating for a week. He is in his solo tank. All parameters are in par. water has good air and water agitation. He does not eat pellets...
  7. R

    My discus with head down symptom (Not Eating & Loss of Balance)

    Good day everyone, I need some help on my discus with head down symptom (Headstanding, Loss of Balance). Few days ago I noticed one of my discus is having a head down symptom. He is not eating anymore. (Beside head down there is no other obvious symptoms - ie. heavy breathing, bloat, worm or...
  8. Jakec96

    HELP!! my jewel hasn't eaten for a month!!!

    This is my 3rd time posting on this forum about my jewel and I really didn't get any help on this issue. My jewel cichlid hasn't eatin for a month and I really don't know what to do I tried an Epsom salt bath twice and nothing changed hes getting very skinny. The water perameters are perfect and...
  9. Jakec96

    Help!! Jewel cichlid not eating

    I have a turquoise jewel cichlid who's not eating and it's been a few days. Whenever I feed the tank he comes to the top like everyone else but doesn't take any food down, he just taps the food with his mouth. I think he's having trouble opening his mouth because it looks like he wants to eat...
  10. Jakec96

    Jewel cichlid not eating

    I have a turquoise jewel cichlid with a sunken belly and he doesn't seem to be eating. Whenever I feed the rank he comes to the top and it looks like he's about to take a pellet but he ends up just tapping it with his mouth and swims away. He then makes like he is chewing something when he...
  11. R

    Does this Fire Eel look healthy?

    Hello, A little over one month ago I purchased a Fire Eel. I've put all sorts of food in the tank but I have never seen him eat. I'm getting worried he'll starve to death. I've asked before how to tell if he's eating when I'm not looking. Most of the responses were "see if he looks too skinny"...
  12. M

    my copper oscar doesn't eat

    why my copper oscar doesn't eat?
  13. C

    Ropefish and Bichirs

    Need help. Just purchased some ropefish a few days ago. Two have died. 3 are left. I have two canister filters, each rated for 100 gallons, filtering the tank. Biological media, carbon, and plent of mechanical filtration in both. Have done a lot of water changes to combat the fact that I added 5...
  14. R

    How long can my African Butterfly fish last without food?

    So I went to bed last night around 11pm and woke up at 2am to see my ABF on the floor, I don't know how long he had been there but when I picked him up he moved slightly so i put him straight back in the tank. He seemed to start recovering and breathe well. This morning I woke up and he is doing...
  15. Dustin0413

    So I snuck up one of my tanks this morning...

    I have a 125 that has some new peacocks that I got a few days ago. One juvie male sunshine that is starting to show color and one 4-5" mature aulonocara stuartgranti mbenji. I added them three days ago, and the larger male has been hiding and barely showing any interest in food. I havent seen...
  16. J

    Flowerhorn not eating and losing colour

    We have a Flowerhorn which is about 8 months old. We have a tank thats 2 feet by 1 foot with a filter. He ate about 14 pellets each meal and had 3 meals a day. He was very close to us until we went on holiday for a week during which someone else took care of it. About 2 days after we left...
  17. freshfishin727

    New 10" marbled male, "my first"

    Got my first FW ray the past Wednesday , not eating , lights off, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 20-30
  18. N

    Weird bump

    I have a smooth river back sting ray that has a 12 inch disk. We noticed two large bumps on his head and are not sure where they cam from or are...has anybody ever experienced this? He also has been barley eating. He with mouth the food but wont consume it. Weve tried garlic to help. His poop...
  19. R

    Just Got Arowana and Its Not Eating Is There Somethimg Wrong?

    Hello, I just recently bought a new arowana for my 55 gallon tank and its already been about 5 days and he hasn't ate any of the krill i have been feeding him also whenever i do try to feed him he swims super fast to the other side of the tank like hes scared of me. Is there something i can do...
  20. K

    Bumble Bee Goby - not eating

    I put my bumble bee goby into a ten gallon brackish water tank two days ago. Now she doesn't want to eat. She isn't interested in her frozen blood worms at all, ad I've tried all the other frozen foods and flakes as well. Please help. Thanks
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