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41 minutes ago, Colu said:
were you got them from were they keeped with other puffer
When i got them they were just delivered to the fish store too. I had them on special order. So i got them the same say they were delivered to the store. And they only had these two.
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12 minutes ago, Colu said:
How many puffer do you together because that looks like bite from one of the other puffers
I got him like this. There are 2. One male. One female. The female looks fine.
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I recently got these puffers and i notice this guy has some what of a rash? Iv never seen this on any other fish i have i started treatment with all 3 trio meds since they are brand new to me. Will this cover them? Im using ich x, paracleanse, and maracyn.
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Iv finally gotten a paid of GBR to not eat their eggs and protect their fry. But today i get home from work and i watch them... and i dont see the fry. Then i see a few and the dad rushed to pick em up. But I assumed he was just moving them. But he was chomping away and then grabbed another one!? Are they never gonna give me fry !?
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Hello! Iv had this tank set up for about a month its my 1st planted tank and iv tries to use everything correctly. Can someone identify this? Iv googled it but im not able to determine the type of algae it is. You can see it growing on the top of the wood. It grew ontop of javamoss i had glued there.
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30 minutes ago, Colu said:
Did your ram fry turn up
Nope. Im waiting on a new batch. I might leave the parents in there this time.
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30 minutes ago, Fish Folk said:
So, if I’m understanding correctly, you separate adult Ram pair to a planted 10-gal. They spawn. Eggs hatch. Then you remove the parents (I assume to prevent predation) and then you lose the fry? Is that what’s happened?
Ram fry are pretty fragile for the first few weeks. Lots of mortality. We like to move eggs before they hatch to a separate fry container for hatching and attentive care. Check the very top surface edge.
We had a crazy situation where rams spawned in a big community tank on substrate. So I pulled out the substrate with a soup ladle. Most eggs fungused over, but 4x Ram fry managed to hatch and (so far) survive. They can be hard to find. Of the 5x photos below, they’re only really clear in a couple shots.
Yes. That’s exactly right. Im assuming they died. Because i cant find any of em. Even though they were perfectly lively yesterday
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I have started to try and breed german blue rams. I hatch them in their own 10 gallon tank with alot of plants in there as its where i hold my plants. Yesterday there were plenty of them. I cant be the filtration because its sponge filter only. Prior to them being in there. The parents were in there. Perfectly fine. Are they hiding in the java moss? Or in the plants? I cant see any! Iv spent a better part of 30 min looking for little bodies or any movement but i see none. Should i wait?
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Just now, James Black said:
No at such a small drop of tempeture its probably not from it, but it depends what fish you have?
Have you added any fish recently?
Tips on treating ich:
-Dose medications every day along with salt-Do waterhchanges every other day
-I have never adujsted the temp to treat ich and would actually advise against it
No fish added recently. I have cardinal tetras, female bettas, 2 german blue rams, and a few algae eaters. I started treatment with super ich cure from api and the instructions are different from your suggestions. Almost total opposite lol. I will finish that treatment cycle.
iv never had an ich problem and this is the only thing that has stress my fish out recently.
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Two days ago my heater went out at night. It was a digital hygger brand one. It was saying it was out of the water when it was not. Anyways, i noticed this immediately when i woke up. I checked the temperature and it was 82. Not bad since I usually keep it at 84.
i couldnt do anything right then and there because of work and being 5am no store was open. So i waited until i got off of work to buy a heater. By then the temperature had gotten down to 78. Now my question is. Is the 6 degrees in temp drop enough to cause ich to fish? Today i checked them and quite a few of them have it. Treatment has started. But i find it so wild that about 10 hours of a slow temp drop causes so much damage. Since when i bought them they were kept at around 76-78
Is that what caused my ich out break or could it be something els?
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So im one to read through the instruction booklet, shocking! I know, but i found that in the book it says to mount them vertically only. Yet i have seen many YouTubers recommend to put it horizontally. My question is does putting it horizontally damage it in the long term? Has anyone had these heaters in the horizontal position for years on end?
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I want to go and buy crystal red shrimp. I bought ghost shrimp as a tester to make sure they would be fine in my tank. And they have been perfectly fine. But just as a precaution i wanted the community's opinion. Since at my LFS they are 12$ each. My tank is kept at 82-84 degrees. Can they handle that heat?
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22 hours ago, toothgrinder said:
How hard is your water? I bought 4 of them months ago and they died one after the other similar to what you explained. Slowly, coloration lightening up, labored breathing. My tap water is very hard and has a high Ph.
Since then I have invested in an RO water system and I purchased 8 rams 4 gold 4 German blue from bioAquatiX. All arrived alive, and over a month later they are all healthy. I use mostly RO water now with a bit of tap water to get a little bit of KH back. I believe soft water to be decently important for them, but I am no expert. Just sharing my experience.
Im not sure on my water hardness or ph level. Are they one and the same? And i didnt think that was it as the two rams i bought before the 6 that died are still up and running and show no signs of what the others showed. Im thinking it was bad genetics but like you i am no expert. I appreciate your feedback tho. I might have to invest in a water softener as you have! Good idea!
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On 12/5/2020 at 3:20 AM, test.tin said:
One possibility could be that adding 6 rams was too much for your system to handle. At 2 months, your tank could've been cycled but only for the amount of fish that you have. Adding 6 fish at once could've caused a spike in ammonia or nitrite. It might have not shown up when you tested your water because it can fluctuate.
Do you have live plants in your tank? If you don't have live plants, having 20-40 ppm of nitrates is pretty high. I know GBR tend to be sensitive towards water quality. I know you said you do a water change every 3 days, but how much are you changing?
You quarantine tank might not be able to biologically handle 6 rams too. I would test the main tank periodically to make sure that it is fully cycle and isn't fluctuating for ammonia, and test the quarantine tank too. Try adding fewer fish in next time as it'll let you beneficial bacteria to catch up to the extra waste.
Well i doubt that the 6 rams was too much for it to handle seeing as i was given the tank with about 30 African cichlids which i donated the same day i got these.
At the time they died i did not have live plants. But i have since bought quite a few beginner plants that should do fine in my tank. And as far as water changes i do about 40-50% everytime. Is that too much? I dechlorinate every time and turn off two of my filters off and leave one on to move the water around for about 10 min then turn the other two back on as i have no idea how instant it gets dechlorinated.
i have gotten a batch of 6 new rams and the two that i bought at 1st are still alive and well. Im edging towards bad genetics.
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Iv noticed that after 1st getting a few female betta to start a sorority tank the two bigger ones look bloated. Not sure if its dropsy or they’re filled with eggs or food. From the top they dont look pine-coned and I Treated them with paraguard, general cure and maracyn for one week. They looked fine so I transferred them over. But every day they seem a little bigger and bigger. There is one male betta in the tank. Sorry for the bad photos. I tried my best to get good photos. My acrylic tank kind of warps the picture and the other one moves alot.
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Has anyone had success in keeping multiple Male Bettas in a larger tank like a 55. I currently have one in there but want to add more if possible.
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17 minutes ago, 3vi1p3nguin said:
How long has the tank been setup? I've never had much luck with rams in tanks that weren't well established. It's difficult to say for sure from the picture, but you may find that even in a 55, you may not have luck with more than one pair without lots of cover. Breaking lines of sight so that they can establish their own turf can make a big difference. They can be very territorial, and that can lead to some early deaths due to stress. Your QT process should help with any parasites they are carrying, which seems to be far from uncommon in fish from the larger suppliers.
And just a warning from experience. I've seen a pictus eat full size platties and swordtails, so when it gets big eno, it might see the rams as dinner.
Iv had the tank for about 2 months. But the tank had been well established before i got it. It came with an HOB filter, a canister filter, and two decent size sponge filter and all had plenty of bacteria. the sponge filters have been moved to my quarantine tank. And once the catfish get bigger i will move them. I still cant figure out why they died. They arnt cheap so i dont wana keep buying them. And beside the money i want to give them a good and healthy life.
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Added the pictures! They all looked like this. They show no signs of sunken or bloated bellies.
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Hello! I purchased 6 GBR from an aquarium shop here in Indy. I had plans of having a tank with a few GBR because i fell in love with them once i saw them and aspired to breed them. Over the past month each one had died about 3-4 days after the other. Today the final one died and they all died in the exact same way. I read that it could be because of bad breeding because a week before i got the batch of 6 i bought 2 GBR at the same shop and those two are still alive and show no signs of stress or sickness. I also keep a pleco, pictus catfish, 3 guppies and one betta in the tank. The tank is 55g . Iv done everything i can. I keep my tank at 84 degree. Do water changes every 3 days. Ammonia stays at 0 nitrite stays at 0 and nitrate somewhere between 20-40ppm. I doubt its anything to do with water as they all die one after the other even after water changes in between. Iv medicated the whole tank just in case and still the batch of 6 all died. They breath heavy and stay still and slowly die. They dont exactly lose color but instead almost light up even more but with a grayish look to them. I couldn’t figure out how to post a picture on here otherwise i would have. Any ideas on what happened? I currently have 6 new GBR in a quarantined tank and am adding paraguard, general cure and maracyn. I plan on keeping these in there for about 2 weeks before i add them to the same tank the others were in but i want to get advice before adding them to my show tank. Please help thank you!
Amazon Puffers Dying After Water Change.
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Help!!! I just did a water change after feeding my fish. It was about a 60% waterchange. And now two of my six amazon puffers are looking rough. I dont think i hurt them when cleaning out the rocks. Can they die cuz of the stress of it? Or cuz they just ate? The temperature is the same. Its the same water source. Not sure what happened.