That is understandable, but a few days shouldn't hurt, it is still worried about being thrashed....give it some time...meaning days, it will calm down and get to know its new tank. When it relaxes and figures out it does not have to worry about being chased its focus will return to its stomach.What if he doesn't start going after the food himself? I don't want to keep on placing food directly in front of him forever you know...
Currently the only frozen foods I have are mysis shrimp and baby brine shrimp for fry. I generally never keep bloodworms because of how unhealthy it is for African Rift Lake Cichlids...andywoolloo wrote:does he even not go after the defrosted bloodworms?
Can you try fresh seafood? I have cooked my eupterus's mussells and then chooped them up fine and also fresh shrimp chopped up. They went orgasmic over it. Feeding frenzy, shrimp and mussells over the tank. Maybe that will get him excited?
Well the thing is, I'd like to keep the catfish life long. I guess I could invest in a larger group in a little while (not now, shipping is too expensive to ship from Texas to New Jersey overnight, let alone the cost of the fish themselves) and when they get huge sell a few to end up with a smaller group. The two at my LFS lay next to each other all the time and they're either full grown or close to it, so I'm figuring as they age they lose interest in constant quarelling...someone correct me if I'm wrong though in making that assumption...Richard B wrote:Your set-up sounds fine
My personal preference would be (in a 265g) to have 5 or 6 decorus - 2 or 3 would generally be ok but a larger group would be better.
I think keeping a single Eupterus with a single decorus would have to be a "suck it & see" event.
If the decorus is otherwise healthy & in good condition, you could try not feeding for a week so it's basic survival instincts are sharpened & then offer a small amount of food (at this point anything should be devoured!) It should then be ok with what you offer it, but variety is always good so it doesn't become fussy
I am not feeding any bloodworms at all. They are extremely unhealthy for African cichlids and since that decorus is in my quarantine/temporary-growout 29g with 7 Tyrannochromis nigriventer juveniles I am not going to feed them bloodworms.andywoolloo wrote:does he even not go after the defrosted bloodworms?
Can you try fresh seafood? I have cooked my eupterus's mussells and then chooped them up fine and also fresh shrimp chopped up. They went orgasmic over it. Feeding frenzy, shrimp and mussells over the tank. Maybe that will get him excited?
.Anyone? I need to know asap what I should do next...Marduk wrote:I have problems.
He isn't eating in front of me now, and especially not now since I may have stressed him when I took all the caves out to get the Tyrannochromis out into the main tank. I did put a large pvc pipe that he went in sometimes in the tank, and plan to add the rest back when I do maintenance soon.
But he isn't eating at all in front of me, even when the food is in front of him. I tried Dainichi pellets, frozen krill pieces, flakes, omegasea shrimp pellets, frozen clams, and mysis shrimp and he isn't going after anything (while my S. decorus in my main tank goes nuts over all of that stuff).
What should I do? What could be wrong with it? Is it ill and should I treat the tank? (Meds I have available are Clout, Metronidasole, Furan-2, Tetracycline, QuIck Cure, Evaporated Sea Salt, etc)
Should I maybe fast it for a week or so and then try feeding and see if he goes after any foods then? Could it be that he is just "depressed" or something (being a social fish) and would it be best if I added him to the main tank and just add some pvc pipes for him to hide until the two start getting a long?
Thanks in advance...
~Ed
Generally it seems to appear fine, just rarely moving and stuff.Richard B wrote:This fish is W/C so there could be internal parasites.
What does it look like? regular or accelerated breathing, bright or dull eyes, clear or blemished skin. full bodied or hollow bellied, deporting normally or struggling to hold position? Perhaps a photo might help us?
Sometimes synos can take many weeks to fully settle & it would appear your fish has had no stable period since you got it, with tank changes, decor changes, fish removal. If everything is ok then it could be a matter of being patient & it taking more time in a stable environment.
What should I use to treat?RickieH wrote:If frozen shrimp or bloodworms don't work the loss of appetite could be from a parasite.
He appears to be doing better now...I must stress the "appears" though. The folks at cichlid-forum.com suggested using Triple Sulfa and I added to the treating regiment 6 tablespoons of sea salt (29gallon tank) and 1tsp of Metronidasole...all of them except for the salt added daily. I also have been feeding only Jungle's anti parasite pellets which have metronidasole and praziq in it. He didn't touch ANY of the pellets (neither did my cichlids when I fed them it for the hell of it...it must taste horrible then..).andywoolloo wrote:I have read that Prazipro is good for treating for internal parasites in pl*cos unknown about synos?
How is your syno?
Well personally I was going to try Clout if Triple Sulfa didn't work. From my understanding Clout is VERY nasty to scaleless fish, though when I called Aquarium Products they said when they looked up testing trials they didn't find any indication that they had tested it on Mochokidae fish so were unsure if it would affect them or not. The way I saw it, if I did not get this guy eating soon he will die, so I was debating whether I should risk its health with a strong medication or not...andywoolloo wrote:yeah!! great to hear! I was worried for him. They can never resist the bloodworms!
The decorus in the main tank loves the Dainichi pellets so I don't see why he can't start eating them right away...after the decorus in the main tank starts smelling them he actually tries to dare himself to go out into the daylight (quite funny to watch actually, it'll go out a few inches then rush back in, and when he wants to go to the other side's save he rushes like a bat out of hell to get there...when he gets brave enough though he'd stay out in the light for a good amount of minutes eating whatever pellets or frozen food I fed)...and then goes after the 3mm pellets.andywoolloo wrote:I have heard Clout is pretty wicked.
Maybe can he eat frozen food for awhile, just to get beefed up? My synos love bloodworms, shrimp, krill, spirulina shrimp.
Oh and they love the Hikari sinking canivore tabs and the Omega one sinking shrimp pellets. And they like the earthworm sticks sinking. Oh and the Hikari Ciclhid Gold sinking pellets.