help!! frontosa not eating

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Ok so my frontosa was great and then I switched foods and he completely stopped eating. No big deal I thought until he wouldn't eat the original food either. So far I have tried water changes and live feeders but he still wont eat. The PH is in the normal range. His tankmate, a malawi hawk and him get along pretty good. So any suggestions on how to get him to start eating again?
thanks
 
he about 6-7" and he's in a 24x24x12 tank and I know its kind of small so im lookin to get a bigger tank and he was eating top fin sinking shrimp pellets and then i switched to hikari cichlid gold. i'm not sure how to get pics up so a link or somethin would help.
 
Get some New Life Spectrum "Thera-A" 3mm pellets, it's my fronts' favorite food. And please move that guy into a 6'er :)

Put some salt (sea salt, 1tbsp/10gal) and check the water parameters for me, pH, gH, ammonia.
 
yea i know that tank is really small but big tanks arent common at all up here but when i do get 1 he'll be the first in it. By sea salt do u mean the stuff for reef aquariums or something else? I'll get those parameters up soon :)
 
pbass lover;3310761; said:
yea i know that tank is really small but big tanks arent common at all up here but when i do get 1 he'll be the first in it. By sea salt do u mean the stuff for reef aquariums or something else? I'll get those parameters up soon :)
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Nope, just sea salt/kosher salt/pickling salt from grocery store. Stay away from iodized salt.
 
Marius;3311055; said:
Nope, just sea salt/kosher salt/pickling salt from grocery store. Stay away from iodized salt.
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actuallyman people see no difference with salt that has iodion in it as the lake frontosa come from contain it as well.
 
ozz465;3311179; said:
actuallyman people see no difference with salt that has iodion in it as the lake frontosa come from contain it as well.
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It's not just the iodine added, it's all the minerals missing from "iodized" salts that makes a big difference.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/tabl...fference-between-sea-salt-and-table-salt.html

So, Epsom salt is a good laxative and is great to use as a preventative (especially in herbivorous species with known "bloat" problems); Sea salt is my choice of treatment salt.

But then again, it is merely my opinion.
 
Marius;3313008; said:
It's not just the iodine added, it's all the minerals missing from "iodized" salts that makes a big difference.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/tabl...fference-between-sea-salt-and-table-salt.html

So, Epsom salt is a good laxative and is great to use as a preventative (especially in herbivorous species with known "bloat" problems); Sea salt is my choice of treatment salt.

But then again, it is merely my opinion.
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Very true about epson salt, helped with float of my wc male.most people use lake rift supplements as well.
 
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