Yep. I think I'm just about done with them.So you give them special water, special tannins, and special food? These fish are a real pita huh.
Yep. I think I'm just about done with them.So you give them special water, special tannins, and special food? These fish are a real pita huh.
This is not correct based on the information I got once. Recommended by a fish vet when I had a fear for flukes once was praziquantel for 3 weeks(you dose once at the start) and not doing water changes in that period of time as you can't accidentally decrease the dosage. Prazi is very stable in water. It should not be mixed with other meds too and one should not dose the tank with anything else afterwards for a while, again advised by a vet.Prazi is used for flatworms/tapeworm and is a single 24 hour treatment, followed up with a second single treatment 7 - 14 days later. You don't administer it for days at a time.
With a tds in the 40's and a ph that was usually below 5, I still don't see what I did wrong.I have wanted but avoided this species for years.
They come from tea dark water (anti bacterial in itself) devoid of most minerals, and a pH down to 4.
This gives them a very specialized immune system, unable to fight off even innocuous bacteria.
So enless your tank is as dark as pekoe tea, and as tart as lemon juice, what you are experiencing is par.
They haven't eaten well for me since day 1. Never got them on pellets, they snubbed romaine unless I starved them. Usually they would go 2 weeks without eating before they would touch romaine. Just about the same with any kind of flake or frozen food except bloodworms. The only thing i could ever get them to reliably eat was plant trimmings from my planted tanks. I can only grow blyxa and wisteria so fast though. Still have the one. I'm done being angry about it, and don't really know what to do with the fish.They just need good food, and pristine water after that.
I honestly think they may have been weak/compromised from the beginning. Both species of Uaru, wild and domestic, have voracious appetites. My wilds were attacking anything I threw in the tank the second day I had them, even while they were still beat up and missing fins from shipping. They eat pellets, dried blackworms, three types of flakes (spirulina, earthworm, and beefheart), and even try eating the silk plants and sponge filters in the tank. I'm thinking maybe they had a low level internal parasite infection when you got them, and even though the acidic water probably helped, there was always an underlying issue. It would explain the suppressed appetite and finickiness of them.With a tds in the 40's and a ph that was usually below 5, I still don't see what I did wrong.
They haven't eaten well for me since day 1. Never got them on pellets, they snubbed romaine unless I starved them. Usually they would go 2 weeks without eating before they would touch romaine. Just about the same with any kind of flake or frozen food except bloodworms. The only thing i could ever get them to reliably eat was plant trimmings from my planted tanks. I can only grow blyxa and wisteria so fast though. Still have the one. I'm done being angry about it, and don't really know what to do with the fish.