OK, I noticed yesterday that my two fish in the 40g tank were not eating as normal, yes this is an weird combo but its working, so no bashing me.
Texas cichlid 5/6" and a 6/7" BGKF. Best buds these two, no aggression issues, normally when I put food in, they are both there and rushing to the top to get their share and its rarely in the tank for more than 5 minutes before most of it is gone, what little is left is gone within an hour. This morning, most of the brineshrimp was still on the floor of the tank uneaten, which made me think something was up. They did come up to the top yesterday but lost interest fairly quickly.
Had done a w/c 20% on the tank yesterday, usually do 2 x 20% weekly. So as you do I test the water, 0 amm or nitrIte, 10 nitrAte, no change in ph 7.8, temp steady at 26.
Anyway I did another 10% change, mainly to vac up the leftover food.
Gone to feed them this afternoon and no response whatsoever, ghostie usually leaps out from his cave the instant I lift the lid, but he hasnt bothered, Texas not interested either, in fact he is just sitting in one spot breathing what looks like heavily to me, definately more than usual anyway. The flow from the filter is great, plenty of aeration so I cant see why hes doing this.
Ghostie looks like hes having problems navigating and is swimming on his side more than usual (its hard with a BGKF to explain as they swim in weird ways sometimes anyway) and has a sniff of the food (in this case blood worm, as they love the stuff!!) but then swims away from it, this is not normal behaviour from him at all.
Nothing has been added to the tank, levels are always stable, Im at a loss to know what to do, no visible signs of anything untowards, no flicking, no rubbing, no spots nothing at all. Nothing sprayed around the tank, it sits on my worktop in my kitchen, anybody think of something Im not, these two are my favourite fish and I know somethings up but I cant work out what and to lose them will break my heart
Texas cichlid 5/6" and a 6/7" BGKF. Best buds these two, no aggression issues, normally when I put food in, they are both there and rushing to the top to get their share and its rarely in the tank for more than 5 minutes before most of it is gone, what little is left is gone within an hour. This morning, most of the brineshrimp was still on the floor of the tank uneaten, which made me think something was up. They did come up to the top yesterday but lost interest fairly quickly.
Had done a w/c 20% on the tank yesterday, usually do 2 x 20% weekly. So as you do I test the water, 0 amm or nitrIte, 10 nitrAte, no change in ph 7.8, temp steady at 26.
Anyway I did another 10% change, mainly to vac up the leftover food.
Gone to feed them this afternoon and no response whatsoever, ghostie usually leaps out from his cave the instant I lift the lid, but he hasnt bothered, Texas not interested either, in fact he is just sitting in one spot breathing what looks like heavily to me, definately more than usual anyway. The flow from the filter is great, plenty of aeration so I cant see why hes doing this.
Ghostie looks like hes having problems navigating and is swimming on his side more than usual (its hard with a BGKF to explain as they swim in weird ways sometimes anyway) and has a sniff of the food (in this case blood worm, as they love the stuff!!) but then swims away from it, this is not normal behaviour from him at all.
Nothing has been added to the tank, levels are always stable, Im at a loss to know what to do, no visible signs of anything untowards, no flicking, no rubbing, no spots nothing at all. Nothing sprayed around the tank, it sits on my worktop in my kitchen, anybody think of something Im not, these two are my favourite fish and I know somethings up but I cant work out what and to lose them will break my heart
where the heck is a bgkf's bum? Never ever seen him poo in all the time ive had him, so cant tell you his bowel movements, but the Texas' looks completely normal, not stringy, mucusy, normal brown sized poop. No swelling of his rearend either!
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