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divemaster99

divemaster99

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Well on February 10th of this year I transferred my striped raph and Gibby to my 75 gallon. Well for the first 2 months my raph wouldn't touch anything I gave him and was shedding slime coat like nobody's business. I was almost certain he was going to die but about a month ago he started to recover, still wasn't eating but he wasn't sick anymore. Well tonight I dropped in a few shrimp pellets in the cave my raph and pleco share (of their own choice) and normally the pleco normally eats them all. Well I look back and the pleco isn't eating. I started to worry he got sick so I watched another 2 pellets fall into the cave and my raph ate them ON SIGHT. I was so happy I actually went hysterical in laughing for a minute. I gave him another and another and another and watched him eat about a total of 7 or 8. I actually had to divide the cave into 2 sections any feed my pleco on one side to make sure he was getting food! I'm actually skeptical that he ate them all after him not eating for so long that I think I'm seeing shrimp pellets next to him (lol, that's what happens when your fish goes that long without eating :)) which I'm hoping aren't actually there. Either way, he ate at least the majority of them and I'm glad to have my good old fat cat back again. So here's to Leo (my raph) for finally breaking his fast :headbang2: !!!
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Well, here's how feeding went tonight.

First, gave him 2 pellets, ate both of them
Next, have him another 2 pellets, tried to eat them but kept spitting them back out
Last, gave him 1 last pellet, landed on top of his head and then fell directly in front of him and he paid it no attention.

:l not really sure whether I should worry or not yet. My pleco did crowd in with him before though because my cichlids chased him I'm so he may just be stressed from having another fish jam into his cave.
 
It looks like he will be fine. He is just starting to behave normally and even when healthy, appetite waxes and wines.

(In other threads) We have not been able to even have any guesses on what went wrong in the first place on the raph's move from 35 to 75 g. Something must have gone unnoticed and wrong for him to be adjusting for 2 months.

But it is not all that uncommon, although, I agree, from the symptom description it looked like he would not make it. It sounded as if the stress of the move triggered some disease, bacterial, viral, or parasitic (no other likely reason I can think of for him to breath heavy for a month; your aeration was good, other fish fine). But he beat the odds and overcame it.

I'd say keep on the good reporting and keep learning and searching for / thinking about a possible cause(s) :)
 
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