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I own 2 giant snakeheads that are just over 2ft long, i have kept them without incident for the last 3 years and nothing but great health and appitite have been shown from them. They had a comfy home in 230 gal tank for now with live plant and driftwood surroundings, until the tank sprung a slow leak 3 weeks ago. i am only a couple days away from having the tank going again while they stay in a 112gal tank in the mean time that always had water and a filter going..and previously housed them and healthy gars, just in case.
There weekly meal consisted of 100 lg feeder fish every sat or sun and the ocasional shrimp treat.
My problem:
i moved them from big tank to little tank as leak came upwhich went just ok, it is not fun nor easy to catch them and they defintly got a little beat up in the process but nothing that bad, 2 days later i was 2 days late on feeding so i went and got 2dzn lg feeders just for a quick snack, not knowing that they would eat them but knowing nothing has ever stayed in that tank more than a day. well 2 days later the goldfish (all but 2) were still in the tank and the water was geting cloudy i knew what was wrong, that day at work my buddy that also got feeders with me called me and said his fish were dying he thinks its bad feeders, i rush home from work and begin the very unpleaseant task of trying to catch goldfish out of a snakehead tank, my snakes had clouded eyes and bad colour and did NOT look good, i ran out and bought some aquarium salt and NOX-ICH to put in my tank incase of parisite and did a good waterchange. i decided to treat with nox-ich and only noticed a slight improvement.
Anyways my problem 20 days from bad feeders is my fish have not got much better, eyes clouded, bad color and they are jumping like crazy so bad that they are cuting there heads and lips open to the point of a bit of blood showing, against the lexan lid.
They seem to have little tiny welts under there skin poping up but not out, although i dont know if this is just from them jumping like idiots or if it is a parisite. they also wont eat ANYTHING (i tried 2 feeders and took out after 2 hrs, shrimp and crab) all in which they LOVE. they are not acting right and havent eaten in nearly 4 weeks..
Ive turned the temp up to 80 and begain a 3 day round of treatment yesterday, iv done water changes alot latly because of the before and after medicating thing and because it seams to be going a little foggy.
WHAT AM I MISSING?!?!?!? please help me out here people, i know i didnt do everything perfect but i havent had a single problem like this in 3 years of keeping them or my other tanks..im rusty.
please any help would be great, i can provide more details if need be.
Thanks for reading
I own 2 giant snakeheads that are just over 2ft long, i have kept them without incident for the last 3 years and nothing but great health and appitite have been shown from them. They had a comfy home in 230 gal tank for now with live plant and driftwood surroundings, until the tank sprung a slow leak 3 weeks ago. i am only a couple days away from having the tank going again while they stay in a 112gal tank in the mean time that always had water and a filter going..and previously housed them and healthy gars, just in case.
There weekly meal consisted of 100 lg feeder fish every sat or sun and the ocasional shrimp treat.
My problem:
i moved them from big tank to little tank as leak came upwhich went just ok, it is not fun nor easy to catch them and they defintly got a little beat up in the process but nothing that bad, 2 days later i was 2 days late on feeding so i went and got 2dzn lg feeders just for a quick snack, not knowing that they would eat them but knowing nothing has ever stayed in that tank more than a day. well 2 days later the goldfish (all but 2) were still in the tank and the water was geting cloudy i knew what was wrong, that day at work my buddy that also got feeders with me called me and said his fish were dying he thinks its bad feeders, i rush home from work and begin the very unpleaseant task of trying to catch goldfish out of a snakehead tank, my snakes had clouded eyes and bad colour and did NOT look good, i ran out and bought some aquarium salt and NOX-ICH to put in my tank incase of parisite and did a good waterchange. i decided to treat with nox-ich and only noticed a slight improvement.
Anyways my problem 20 days from bad feeders is my fish have not got much better, eyes clouded, bad color and they are jumping like crazy so bad that they are cuting there heads and lips open to the point of a bit of blood showing, against the lexan lid.
They seem to have little tiny welts under there skin poping up but not out, although i dont know if this is just from them jumping like idiots or if it is a parisite. they also wont eat ANYTHING (i tried 2 feeders and took out after 2 hrs, shrimp and crab) all in which they LOVE. they are not acting right and havent eaten in nearly 4 weeks..
Ive turned the temp up to 80 and begain a 3 day round of treatment yesterday, iv done water changes alot latly because of the before and after medicating thing and because it seams to be going a little foggy.
WHAT AM I MISSING?!?!?!? please help me out here people, i know i didnt do everything perfect but i havent had a single problem like this in 3 years of keeping them or my other tanks..im rusty.
please any help would be great, i can provide more details if need be.
Thanks for reading
