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Ziggy, impaction or constipation should be treated with epsom salts to start with.
Also from what I understand epsom salts (not to be confused with regular salt) will not hurt your plants.
Also from what I understand epsom salts (not to be confused with regular salt) will not hurt your plants.
I know it's too late for your guy but in the future, IME any discus or cichlid that hides or doesn't come out is possibly sick and should be treated immediately with metro. Other signs are spitting out food and floaty transluscent excrement. It's critical to quarantine the affected fish ASAP because the other ones can get sick by "mouthing" the excrement. When I kept discus I had a beefheart mixture w/ metro ready in the freezer.
Sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss
I will try to dig it out... I got it off Discus Page Holland (www.dph.nl) a few years back. There are some excellent articles on this site. Highly recommend checking it out.
Good beef heart recipe is just keeping things simple:
I use a 1:1 ratio of beef heart and krill, add a few garlic cloves if you like, though it's not necessary.
Get some high quality flake food such as Ocean Nutrition and if you want some color enhancement you can add TetraBits. Total ratio should be 5:5:1 so 5 parts beef heart, 5 parts krill and 1 part flake.
Throw it all in a blender and go to town, it stinks like hell. Then just ball it up into tennis ball sized nuggets, wrap in suran wrap and freeze it...
Simple as that =)
I use a 1:1 ratio of beef heart and krill, add a few garlic cloves if you like, though it's not necessary.
Get some high quality flake food such as Ocean Nutrition and if you want some color enhancement you can add TetraBits. Total ratio should be 5:5:1 so 5 parts beef heart, 5 parts krill and 1 part flake.
Throw it all in a blender and go to town, it stinks like hell. Then just ball it up into tennis ball sized nuggets, wrap in suran wrap and freeze it...
Simple as that =)
