Okay so now I treated with salt and raised it to .4% salinity(I doubled it since white catfish can also be found in brackish water and I have done this before for other sunnies and it never done harm to them). Well as soon as I added the last two dose some white long strings fell off all the fish. I think they were anchor worms or something. About the catfish he has a large bump in his belly and it kinda looks like an ulcer or something. Not sure if he hurt himself with one of the rocks or if it's a parasite or something. I'd take pics but he moves about occasionally and barely shows his belly for longer than 5seconds.
Now I'm worried cause I don't see the catfish eating. I put in turtle pellets, sinking omnivore wafers, and algea wafers. Nothing. The suckers end up eating but yeah. Apparently one of the suckers has a fish louse in the tail. I don't wanna manually remove it since not only are they super fast doing that will make one of the other fish which I now found out is a grass carp... dart around the tank. I plan on moving the grass carp once the medication is ended.
The water temp is up to 76degrees and I'd like to know what to do for feeding the catfish, like what will entice him to feed or whatever. I mean i only caught him last friday I think. and he ate a little bit of left over wafers which I had to remove later on and did a whole tank cleaning prior to the salt treatment. I wanna make sure no fungus, ich, or parasites are lingering around them any longer cause I saw one of the perch that I forgot to quarantine(stupid me), end up having fluffy patch all over and then white spots too(he died three days later) so now I wanted to make sure I won't get anything bad.
I also need to know how often and how much to feed the longnosed suckerfish, the whitecatfish, the one lonely yellow perch, and the two sunnies(this is a temporary holding tank since I'm planning on getting the larger tank in a couple of months).
The catfish is only 10inches long at most. The sunnies are just 3-4inch, the three suckers (two are 10inched and one is actually 4inch-- I was hopping I could have gotten them smaller but Idk how to catch small suckers).
The carp is 8inches long and quite a nuisance at the moment since when I t urn on the lights HE gets spooked so he darts madly in the tank and then the rest follow him a few seconds after because he keeps darting. He ended up having a red sore in his mouth which is also going to be treated with the salt. Hopefully after this week I can start moving some fish from this 75g and into either a man made pond or give it to a friend with a backyard pond. He also loves carps but I don't wanna end up letting this fish go onto my friends pond without treating it first. I'd feel like a jerk if anything happens to his pond fish. His pond is around I think over 10,000 gallons? It's like 40ft in dia. And can go as deep as 10feet in the deeper areas.
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Forgot to say that I also sometimes see either poop with bubbles floating in the water surface or sometimes a long whiteish string poop floating on the bottom(without gas or anything).
I figured first one would be constapation and that I should fix their diet or feeding schedule(I feed daily-once or twice) but I'm not sure how often they actually should eat.... I know what they eat in the wild but not sure what's best for them in captivity and I'm seeking advice from anyone who can help that has knowledge. And please if you're going to give advice on the disease or anything please make sure you say if you read it somewhere OR if you yourself encountered that problem and solved it.
Now I'm worried cause I don't see the catfish eating. I put in turtle pellets, sinking omnivore wafers, and algea wafers. Nothing. The suckers end up eating but yeah. Apparently one of the suckers has a fish louse in the tail. I don't wanna manually remove it since not only are they super fast doing that will make one of the other fish which I now found out is a grass carp... dart around the tank. I plan on moving the grass carp once the medication is ended.
The water temp is up to 76degrees and I'd like to know what to do for feeding the catfish, like what will entice him to feed or whatever. I mean i only caught him last friday I think. and he ate a little bit of left over wafers which I had to remove later on and did a whole tank cleaning prior to the salt treatment. I wanna make sure no fungus, ich, or parasites are lingering around them any longer cause I saw one of the perch that I forgot to quarantine(stupid me), end up having fluffy patch all over and then white spots too(he died three days later) so now I wanted to make sure I won't get anything bad.
I also need to know how often and how much to feed the longnosed suckerfish, the whitecatfish, the one lonely yellow perch, and the two sunnies(this is a temporary holding tank since I'm planning on getting the larger tank in a couple of months).
The catfish is only 10inches long at most. The sunnies are just 3-4inch, the three suckers (two are 10inched and one is actually 4inch-- I was hopping I could have gotten them smaller but Idk how to catch small suckers).
The carp is 8inches long and quite a nuisance at the moment since when I t urn on the lights HE gets spooked so he darts madly in the tank and then the rest follow him a few seconds after because he keeps darting. He ended up having a red sore in his mouth which is also going to be treated with the salt. Hopefully after this week I can start moving some fish from this 75g and into either a man made pond or give it to a friend with a backyard pond. He also loves carps but I don't wanna end up letting this fish go onto my friends pond without treating it first. I'd feel like a jerk if anything happens to his pond fish. His pond is around I think over 10,000 gallons? It's like 40ft in dia. And can go as deep as 10feet in the deeper areas.
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Edit:
Forgot to say that I also sometimes see either poop with bubbles floating in the water surface or sometimes a long whiteish string poop floating on the bottom(without gas or anything).
I figured first one would be constapation and that I should fix their diet or feeding schedule(I feed daily-once or twice) but I'm not sure how often they actually should eat.... I know what they eat in the wild but not sure what's best for them in captivity and I'm seeking advice from anyone who can help that has knowledge. And please if you're going to give advice on the disease or anything please make sure you say if you read it somewhere OR if you yourself encountered that problem and solved it.
