RTG Injured =*( Help plz

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Gshock;4166535; said:
Brown stuff? You sure thats not just excess food particles or algae? Can't think of any chemical stress relievers off the top of my head, but salt also does that job quite nicely.
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Its like a brown residue that developes on the walls of the tank and when i scrub off the brown residue it would come off like brown haze in the water.

Usually when my RTG finishes eating I would do a sweep with my net to pick up excess food parts and poop from my RTG.
 
packer43064;4167348; said:
I'm not sure if I'm looking at it wrong. But the tail part looks like it's just banged up real bad. I don't think it will just "fall off", that makes no sense unless it's a fungus or such. Which is doubtful. If he did jump and hit himself, which is possible. He's probably just scared now.

Keep the lights off unless your checking if he's okay, and do maybe 2 WC's a week. Add salt like others and do what everyone else said. Your probably too worried about it and checking it several times a day and flipping lights on and off and just freaking it out even more. I've done this before, you seriously have to let it be to an extent. It'll probably take upwards up to a month to be fully healed and even longer to not be scared as much. Seriously watch it, but your probably doing too much and scaring it even more.

In the past 3 days you've took 6 pictures. IDK about you, but when I take pics of my fish I take ALOT. Let it be, it will be fine. Not trying to be an *** or anything either.
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Right now I'm doing 2 wc's a wk. with salt added. only my Marineland light is on right now on the front part of the tank. WHen I take pictures I dont use flash EXcept for the last 2 that I posted cause they turned up better than the other pictures with no flash. and When i check my RTG I dont turn on the lights on and off cause i understand taht this stresses fish out in general. Right now only the Moonlight is on for the tank.

Like righ tnow the Tail is Half broken off its disconnected with the tail. So I just want to know:

1. does this mean i have to operate on my RTG??? or are there other alternatives?

2. If I do put out my RTG with Clove Oil What will be the chances of my RTG not waking up and dieing?
 
Agreed with Gshock, don't operate. What you should try to do is to calm him down and to keep water pristine with salt added and temperature raised to 84F. Turn off the light and only leave the front of the tank exposed, i.e. cover the back and both ends. Don't let him see red objects like red shirt - my jardini almost jumped when he saw me putting on a red t-shirt yesterday. Do you have glass tops on the tank and if so are the sharp edges exposed? Try to eliminate sharp/pointy objects to avoid further damage.

Don't know why/how you could get brown water. It could be decay from the poops or filter needs cleaned. Good luck!
 
arodini;4167801; said:
Agreed with Gshock, don't operate. What you should try to do is to calm him down and to keep water pristine with salt added and temperature raised to 84F. Turn off the light and only leave the front of the tank exposed, i.e. cover the back and both ends. Don't let him see red objects like red shirt - my jardini almost jumped when he saw me putting on a red t-shirt yesterday. Do you have glass tops on the tank and if so are the sharp edges exposed? Try to eliminate sharp/pointy objects to avoid further damage.

Don't know why/how you could get brown water. It could be decay from the poops or filter needs cleaned. Good luck!
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Yup lights are now turned off... sides are covered with black bristol board.... Glass top are the Standar Marineland Glass covers with the plastic connecting the lid and back piece of glass so I dont think there are any sharp edges at all... THe only play i htink might be sharp is the middle beam from the tanks top frame. the middle of the beam is kinda edgy... About the brown water i am still not sure why still cause before my RTG banged himself up the water never got soo dirty before. ONly the yellow risidue on Tubings which I scrub everything every week during WC. That could just be from over feeding. with WC's I take out all cotton and scrub and rince as well and clean inside of the filter walls with my scrubby.

Sooo... GOOD NEWS!! The bottom half of the broken tail is on the bottom of the tank righ tnow!! =D i guess my RTG just wagged it off..
I guess I can just leave him now and let him grow it back...

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there is a chance the tail may not grow back if its broken that far down. Hopefully it does though
 
aidenb;4168336; said:
there is a chance the tail may not grow back if its broken that far down. Hopefully it does though
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I've seen Aro's where there whole entire tail is gone... I really dont know how the bottom half would grow back and look like on my RTG.
 
Is it eating? If it's eating then don't worry too much. The tail will grow back. As long as the water is clean, it should recover in no time.
 
Yeah he finally ate 3 meal worms today.... but his appetite isn't the same took him a while staring at the worm before he actually went for the kill slowly. He seems sick, slow and unhappy sitting at the bottom right of the tank or just right infront of the power head near the surface.

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