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[coltpeacemaker]

Please fill out as much as possible below and give us a description of what is wrong with your fish.

Type of fish:flowerhorn (kingpearl)
Symptoms:not eating for 2 wks stringy poo with little translucent balls attached
Other tank mates:none
Tank size / capacity:240ltrs
Type of Food fed:cichlid pellets sml pce of prawn now and then
Feeding frequency/amount:hasnt eaten in 2 wks
Substrate:
Frequency of filter cleans: when the water slowes down

flitration:aqua one aquilis 1000 

Frequency and % volume of water changes:20% every two days
Last water change:two days ago
PH: 7.8
KH: 5
GH:
Nitrite: 0.0
Nitrate: 30ppm
Ammonia: 0.0
Phosphate: not sure
Water temp:30c
Medications used recently to date:waterlife sterazin
Any recent changes..new fish/filters/power outages etc etc:moved him into new aquarium 2-3wks ago

[Westie]

sorry to hear you have a sick fish

when you moved him to a new aquarium, did you use a cycled filter? 

[coltpeacemaker]

sure did i also put his old filter in there as well i think he might have hexa but you cant buy metro here in perth so i dont know what to do

[tunagirll]

Stop feeding prawns, these will cause trouble.

 

Seachem aquazole, you should be able to get it on ebay.

[coltpeacemaker]

seachem aquazole ill look at foresure thanks metro is so hard to get but i do know a doctor that will get me a scipt after i told him my problem

[bigjohnnofish]

aquotix sell an off the shelf medication called intestinal hexamita clear which may be suited to your problem... its a product made by big fish... they also make internal parasite clear which i have used and works really well...  i have used dmz in the past when it was available and not so hard to get... i used dmz in conjunction with internal parasite clear and had success... 

[coltpeacemaker]

thanks guys for your comment also should i be changing my water daily? and how much...

[FishBait]

Try feeding beefheart. All fish do better on beef heart.
In fact, buying from the fish shop is a ripoff, so just get lamb heart from Coles for $3/kg and chop it up.

You never need to change water more than once a month. People that say otherwise probably work for Water Corp.

[Delapool]

Imo water changes will depend on stocking and tap/tank water chemistry. Over summer here I have found regular, weekly water changes are needed to keep the kh up.

[Terry]

Do not feed your fish lamb, it is too fatty. Ask around for beef heart most butchers can get it for you.

 

The best way to treat flowerhorns is to put them in the freezer overnight, or feed them to your cat.

Edited by Terry, 28 May 2016 - 12:36 PM.

[Frontosaman]

Ask on FACEBOOK, flower horns are banned on this forum!!


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[tunagirll]

Last time we talked about flowerhorns the mods were specific about allowing posts dealing with treating illness. I hope that hasn't changed!

 

OP, if you still need meds, I have some aquazole here.

[Androo]

Illness posts are permitted (just goes to show what you can expect of fh) but as long as no one promotes the fish as anything more than a sick fish, we are ok.

[bigjohnnofish]

Do not feed your fish lamb, it is too fatty. Ask around for beef heart most butchers can get it for you.

 

The best way to treat flowerhorns is to put them in the freezer overnight, or feed them to your cat.

 

or to my rtc

will take any size and quickly converted into nitrates to feed my back lawn after a water change.... 

 

 

 

 

 

You never need to change water more than once a month. People that say otherwise probably work for Water Corp.

 

oh dear thats a very disheartening post - if that was said on facebook you could expect a hoard of people ripping into you implying a total lack of fish knowledge - but hopefully that wont happen on here.... but i will say you need to learn a lot more about keeping fish and the nitrogen cycle and its effects on fish especially when ammonia/nitrite is present and when nitrate levels get high...

[tunagirll]

Guys if you hate fh that's fine, but can you lay off talking about killing someone's pet on an illness post, that's pretty unkind.

[coltpeacemaker]

well i must say im very disapointed with some off the comments made on here,and i never new flowerhorns arnt allowed on this web site so ill be leaving and i dont think ill be back again. to the ppl that offered advice i thank you.....

[Frontosaman]

The only reason then aren't allowed is they are a Hybrid.


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[tunagirll]

well i must say im very disapointed with some off the comments made on here,and i never new flowerhorns arnt allowed on this web site so ill be leaving and i dont think ill be back again. to the ppl that offered advice i thank you.....

 

You're welcome. I just lost my fh after illness so I hope yours will be okay. I do have that medication if you need it

[coltpeacemaker]

no thanks tunagirll thanks for the offer but i gave the flowerhorn to a guy i know who has a spare 6ft tank all for him and has over 30 yrs experience in keeping lge cichlids and he reconds he will get him well so i did whats best for the fish as he was a cool fish like a little buddy ive just got a jaguar cichlid to fill the gap and is in my 125 gal tank...