So i’ve had a peacock bass for about 3 months and he has been fine with the temperature and then all of the sudden he started having a hard time breathing and was really stressed out and i realized the temp was a little low for a peacock bass so i put my heater in and warmed up the tank and then later on after some reading online i found out heating up the tank actually takes out oxygen, so i took it out and now my tank had been at a stable 76 degrees everyday, but my bass still hadn’t eaten and it has been 10 days since that problem happened. i have tried Shrimp, Pellets, Guppies and i’ve tried the garlic water food trick, none of them have worked, do you know how i can get him to start eating again so he doesn’t starve himself?
Peacock bass won’t eat
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76 degress is pretty low. having a tank around 81 to 83 degrees will make the fish much happier. the amount of oxygen lost is negligible as long as you have good surface agitation or bubblers. For the record, if you have tropical fish like peacock bass you should ALWAYS have a heater running in the tank, the only exception is if you live somewhere it never drops below like 78 at night time. Peacock bass are pretty temperature sensitive fish
alright thank you, i’ll start it back up and see if that’ll help him in any way ??
How big is the fish? How big is the tank? Whats the tankmates? Water parameters ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and ph? Waterchange schedule how much and how often? What filtration do you have?