BiffMalawi
Fish Fanatic
Hi my 9 year old daughter "Princess Paradise" got an adult Paradise fish about 9 months ago. It was alone in a 5g tank. Mid November we switched Seawave over to a 10g tank and added a couple of African Dwarf frogs and a golf ball sized apple snail. Everyone has got along and done really well.
A couple of days ago Seawave started to show less interest in feeding and now hardly feeds at all. He has always been an excellent eater. We feed him tropical fish flakes 6 days a week and he eats a lot of frozen blood worms that we feed the frogs. He also sometimes eats a bit of the snail's spirulina pellets.
Today we noticed he was changing colour. He has always had very bright "traditional" Paradise fish colours blue with red stripes, now hehas turned very grey along the top of his back almost like his scales have come off. I have included a couple of pictures the colour isn't great but you can see the lack of definition to his markings as his stripes should go all the way up ..
Water parameters are good Nh3 0, No2 0, No3 10 and Ph is about 7.8. Water temp is at 78'F. We added a few floating frogbit plants and did a water change a few days ago. The water change was about 25% and alittle overdue, which is unusual.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated my little girl loves Seawave tremendously.
A couple of days ago Seawave started to show less interest in feeding and now hardly feeds at all. He has always been an excellent eater. We feed him tropical fish flakes 6 days a week and he eats a lot of frozen blood worms that we feed the frogs. He also sometimes eats a bit of the snail's spirulina pellets.
Today we noticed he was changing colour. He has always had very bright "traditional" Paradise fish colours blue with red stripes, now hehas turned very grey along the top of his back almost like his scales have come off. I have included a couple of pictures the colour isn't great but you can see the lack of definition to his markings as his stripes should go all the way up ..
Water parameters are good Nh3 0, No2 0, No3 10 and Ph is about 7.8. Water temp is at 78'F. We added a few floating frogbit plants and did a water change a few days ago. The water change was about 25% and alittle overdue, which is unusual.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated my little girl loves Seawave tremendously.
It's probably bacterial and he needs to be treated with antibiotics (snails won't survive this - I don't think it's good for the frogs either). However, he may also just eb suffering from constipation (reduce the amount of flake you're feeding and give him some veggies like blanched zuchinni and mroe live/frozen foods). If this is the case, feeding him only daphnia for the next few days after fasting him for a day first might to the trick. If this has no effect, it'll have to be the antibiotics so you'll have to work out a way of moving the snail and frogs to another tank or moving him into one (the other tank must eb cycled).
