OMG so involved. I previously just mixed it with warm water and soaked food in it.
Fish illness'
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OMG so involved. I previously just mixed it with warm water and soaked food in it.
Ok, well that doesn't say how to reform food but what I'm going to do is just take some peas, a clove of garlic, shrimp and whiting and blend up 2 cups volume of food and add 1 Tbl spoon of meds to it put it in a plastic bag and press flat(might add jello) and freeze then break it appart and serve 3 times a day for 3 days. Sound good???
Ok we made the food the fish went nuts, I think it was the whole clove of garlic that they loved. At any rate the mix was peas, garic, shirmp and white fish pureed and then jello was added, put in a plastic bag and pressed flat till it was only 1/2 cm thick and placed in freezer. 3 hrs later we had food and we fed them till the frenzy stopped. I'm gonna do 3 feedings a day for 4 days assuming our mix makes it that long.
Most of my fish are both enjoying the food and the new tank but my largest fish, the male borleyi won't eat yet and there is atleast one yellow benga with a mouthfull of eggs who isn't eating. I will strip her and put her back.
Ok I'm on kensfish placing an order right now. Any test kit recommendations? or is API quality enough???
Just up and got an API tests all kit!
Just up and got an API tests all kit!
Solar salt is like pure salt, from evaporated sea water is used in pools and water softners. I was gonna raise it to help with parasites, have used it on parasites to good effect in the past.
Will probably wait till the eggs are out of the tank to do that though, don't know how that will effect the eggs.
Will probably wait till the eggs are out of the tank to do that though, don't know how that will effect the eggs.
I called my LFS and got their recommendations for solar salt they said 2.5 cups for a 75 gallon should be adequate and to increase the salt, should we see further sines of fungus(as I'd seen little patches on some of the fish when moved into this tank under the better light) I can add 2.5 cups with a 50 percent water change to increase the dose to 3.72. he said not to exceed 5 cups for a 75 gallon.
moved a majorly aggressive thick skin into a separate tank after the salt treatment. The female benga gave up her eggs but the uganda fire red are spawning so we pulled a holding female and place her in her own tank so the male would leave her alone.
The water test kit arrived last night but some of the solutions had leaked in the container(it was sealed like new). I've contacted kensfish about a return/refund/replacement and they have yet to reply.
The fish look much better but certain peacocks still have worrisome marks around their eyes like a white around the edge and are not plumping up or eating appropriately as half the fish are shaped like fancy gold fish and the other half have barely recovered from the sunken gut from when I got them. I'll post pics tonight and depending on what kens fish wants me to do I might be able to use what of the text kit is in tack to get you some water readings.
For an update on the room see here:
they are the first top 75 as I walk into the room.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...fish-room-renovation-project/page9&highlight=
moved a majorly aggressive thick skin into a separate tank after the salt treatment. The female benga gave up her eggs but the uganda fire red are spawning so we pulled a holding female and place her in her own tank so the male would leave her alone.
The water test kit arrived last night but some of the solutions had leaked in the container(it was sealed like new). I've contacted kensfish about a return/refund/replacement and they have yet to reply.
The fish look much better but certain peacocks still have worrisome marks around their eyes like a white around the edge and are not plumping up or eating appropriately as half the fish are shaped like fancy gold fish and the other half have barely recovered from the sunken gut from when I got them. I'll post pics tonight and depending on what kens fish wants me to do I might be able to use what of the text kit is in tack to get you some water readings.
For an update on the room see here:
they are the first top 75 as I walk into the room.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/f...fish-room-renovation-project/page9&highlight=
ph might be to low for the african cichlids.otherwise some fish looks like they got beat up then infected with anmonia burn.white patches could be fungus,and white spots can be external parasite.try using nitrofuracin green powder.remember to turn off uv light or ozonators.good luck curing them.
Well some of the fish have visibly recovered and others look so flippin stunted or outright physically deformed I'm kinda having a hard time determining their general health. I'm confident a good amount of the stock I'm having issue with was severely neglected and are still suffering from that but I'm currently unsure if legitimate disease still is prevalent in the tank. All the white lumps that would form up on the fish have gone but the bulging eyes are still present on some fish but I think that is from stunting and not so much from a specific illness. Having concluded my metro treatment and not loosing any further fish to illness I moved out some fish, certain females where holding so I put them in 20 gallon isolation tanks and pulled my frontosa and borleyi out and moved them into a gen pop tank. I also removed many of the questionable looking peacocks and placed them in a hybrid tank with other undesirable peacocks to see what happens. If all is well they will probably become fish food for my bichirs.
