Help ...... my fish is in sick mood

[vicky]

hi , my foxface was eating quite fine and a greedy eater on 13 may . suddenly next day nvr eat dont know why . untill now havent eat . but between 13 may and 17may , he got eat abit but must forced him many time then eat . no injuries found on his body nor white spots . but my salinity was 1.010 for 1.5 months coz want to clear the ich away from my main tank . my nitrate , ph , ammonia was is safe level , but still mine fish wont eat .help. dont know what kind of diseases is this .

but i saw his mouth opening and closing alot of them . seem to lose weight also due to starvation .i got put appietite simultant also , but no use.

Scared to lose this since with my 1 month plus liao .

suspect only salinity low . i increase to 1.012 . but not confirm . he dont like to eat , but yesterday bought a naso tang and put naso in my tank , then the foxface chase him around , still got energy . but not eating.

[vicky]

help ......

[bum]

what you mean force feed?

check your params again,

i had test kits that were expired, so gave me wrong info.

then increase salinity,

for ich treatments

i used waterlife myxazin,

next day atlantic blue back to normal, eating like pig

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good luck

[vicky]

i mean i will always put food in my tank , then my fishes will eat, so i thought my foxface also come out and eat , he must see one that will eat. but now no .

all not on exp date ler.

[typrobin]

u should put too much food...i think your sea water is too dirty...how bout a 10% water change every few days...to clear away the toxic....when fishes breath hard, it means tat ur water is not clean....ammonia and nitrite spike i think....be careful....dun change to much at a time...do it slowly....

[ReDDeviLs]

do you have corals?

i might decide to attack mushroom corals.

[RAV-65]

Bro,

ur SG izit measured using a swing-arm hydrometer? Dat might give a false reading, try using warm fresh water to flush it for a few minutes den measure again. the SG maybe too low...

4get to add the the swing-arm hydromter, even in good cond. may not be accurate enough...

Vincent Ho

[vicky]

i will do every week change one when want to top up water . i also put carbon filter in. now just bought a bacteria bottle that contain nitrate eating organism eating .it called PSB live Probatic . just dose it and also increasing my salinity slowly by few other days . now about 1.013.

[vicky]

blast now a nitrate spike liao . that why my foxface already breathing so hard and now his one side fin not moving , and already weaken due to not eating .

like want to give up ......... .

but my other fishes ok ler, only him , i also dont know why, thought foxface are hardy creatures. .

now doing 10% water change and feeding less now, 1 time a day . increasing salinity .

[vicky]

my fish has been RIP . did a post - mortem on him on his mouth and gills. found a prawn shell stick inside of his mouth, which coz him not to eat!!!! .

i love him alot!!!

Rest in peace, i can feel the heart pain.

[SBS_Transit]

my fish has been RIP . did a post - mortem on him on his mouth and gills. found a prawn shell stick inside of his mouth, which coz him not to eat!!!! .

i love him alot!!!

Rest in peace, i can feel the heart pain.

sorry to hear the sad news

[Navyblue]

Sad news indeed...

Praise you for wanting to know the cause of it, to the extend of examining the corpse.

[RAV-65]

blast now a nitrate spike liao . that why my foxface already breathing so hard and now his one side fin not moving , and already weaken due to not eating .

like want to give up ......... .

but my other fishes ok ler, only him , i also dont know why, thought foxface are hardy creatures. .

now doing 10% water change and feeding less now, 1 time a day . increasing salinity .

Bro,

try going to NTUC and buy a couple of bottles of Distilled Water to mix with the salt for water change in your tank, i guess it's gonna be helpful for the time being since you say there's a spike... also, use a mini-powerhead to induce more current in your tank so that there would be less of a buildup of deritus on the sandbed....

Juz my 2 cts....

Sorry about your beloved foxface....

Vincent Ho

[ReDDeviLs]

sad to hear that..

you feed it prawn?

[Navyblue]

If ammonia is the concern, using distilled water instead of tap water does not help. Tap water contains no ammonia. However that helps with nitrate.

[vicky]

no ammonia, but nitrate high, not not extreme, blame on stupid mistake of feeding them so much, they will always look at me coz they hungry, too cute to resist , so feed them , what to do ? all will go to one corner where i stand and will wait for food. see the result. now must be garang abit .