Does anyone else's Florida Gar do this??

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Euge;870574; said:
How is he at feeding time? Do you have any other gars? If so is this gar as quick to respond to food as the others?
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his feeding has slowed down from normal. in fact he has hardly been eating at all. no other gar in there w/ him though.
 
Jordon,
Keep up on the water changes for now..You could try the Ammolock but I'm not sure that will fix it. There is obviously something causing this and it will be going through and trying to pin down what..To much tinkering will not clear it up just suppress it..I think (my opinion) that you just need to cycle your tank through and after this you should see a reduction of the behavior. Until the tank goes through a good sustainable cycle though keep the ammonia minimal through water changes. BTW have you tested for Nitrites??
 
Polypterus;870721; said:
Jordon,
Keep up on the water changes for now..You could try the Ammolock but I'm not sure that will fix it. There is obviously something causing this and it will be going through and trying to pin down what..To much tinkering will not clear it up just suppress it..I think (my opinion) that you just need to cycle your tank through and after this you should see a reduction of the behavior. Until the tank goes through a good sustainable cycle though keep the ammonia minimal through water changes. BTW have you tested for Nitrites??
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could my water just suck??? every few days if i wipe the inside of the tank down it has an orangish film/slime? what is it? i actually havent tested nitrites. do you recomend any test kits for this?
 
Polypterus;870721; said:
Jordon,
Keep up on the water changes for now..You could try the Ammolock but I'm not sure that will fix it. There is obviously something causing this and it will be going through and trying to pin down what..To much tinkering will not clear it up just suppress it..I think (my opinion) that you just need to cycle your tank through and after this you should see a reduction of the behavior. Until the tank goes through a good sustainable cycle though keep the ammonia minimal through water changes. BTW have you tested for Nitrites??
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I agree and your water does suck lol. It shouldn't have ammonia in it at all. Do you have another tank you can take some biomedia from for your filter. Water is not the holder of bacteria. So when you tranplanted tanks you should have kept the biomedia wet with aquarium water to retain the bacteria. Does your tap water have chlorine in it? Maybe you are killing your bacteria with every water change? Do you treat your water? I don't know why your tank isn't cycled but I agree with polypterus that it is the cause for your gars behavior.
 
my water is city water...so it has chlorine. i usually use tank water to rinse the biomedia.

i was also thinking high iron. could this affect him? what do i do about that?
 
today my gar has had the most normal day since we moved and brought him to ohio. he has hardly swam into the glass at all! i am keeping my fingers crossed! maybe the tank is finaly becoming stable.
 
demjor19;875117; said:
today my gar has had the most normal day since we moved and brought him to ohio. he has hardly swam into the glass at all! i am keeping my fingers crossed! maybe the tank is finaly becoming stable.
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Sounds good, so is this still true today? I hope so. I just popped in for an update.
 
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