My Senegal looks sick. HELP!!!

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Eglinlotus

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May 31, 2013
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Ft Walton Beach, FL
I watch my fish very closely everyday for maybe 30 minutes to and hour its relaxing for me, anyways.....I picked up a young Senegal from the lfs 2 weeks ago and he has been doing great! Very active like to eat frozen de-shelled shrimp and blood worms. But the past 2 days he hasn't touched his food. He just sits at the bottom of the tank and doesn't move unless my Golden loach trys to snuggle with him. He is 2-3" long the water has 0 ammonia, 0 nitrates the water is perfect his tank mates are a Blue gourami, 4 diamond tertas, 3 black skirt tetras, 2 columbian sharks 1 green pleco, 1 snowball pleco, 1 common pleco, 1 black ghost knife and a demosani ciclid. The tank is a 55 gallon right now and will be upgraded to a 120 by the end of the year. He is my tank favorite any help would be greatly appreciated. I currently have him in my quarantine tank with 3 feeder guppies
 
I was told that nitrates arent as harmful to fresh water fish as they are to saltwater and that anything about 100ppm should be a water change of 30% (which I am currently doing)..........back to my question about my fish I'm glad to know that I can join a fish community like this and get harassed my lack of knowledge. I thought this would be a place to learn from but if this is the kind of answers I get then I want no part of this forum.
 
imo you should be changing your water when they hit around 40ppm... try to keep them balanced out at around 20. ill bet your birchir starts eating again once the nitrates are down. he may not eat in the qt tank from stress either. what do you keep your temp at? the knob on heaters isnt real accurate sometimes, so hopefully you have a nice thermometer in there... too hot of water could easily cause this too, but i still think its your nitrates. is everything else eating fine?


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everybody else is eating like its their last meal. my water temp is at 77F. I heard that a fresh piece of garlic stimulates appetite but I dont think i trust that
 
no actually he is been eating his frozen just fine i just started to give him feeders along with his frozen so he can pick or choose what he wants to eat. He loves the blood worms though. After a closer look in the qt his gills are a deep red his color looks fine he just looks skinny and lazy. He used to swim often to go to the top and gulp air and come back down sticking his nose in the sand and searching for food
 
plecos must of stressed it out.
 
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