Tuesday, September 29, 2009

my fish is not eating!?

Question:

I put some aquarium salt in the water, and bought some fish tonic from pets at home for off color fish. This morning its color is back! Very dark speckles and its fin is up, its swimming around a little bit but its still not eating, its not eaten now 4 days. the day before it got ill it was trying to eat but was spitting the flakes back out. I always sink the flakes. Whats wrong with it!?

Answers:

Try different foods with your shubunkin, isolate it with a tank divider when trying this. Try live foods especially such as blood worms, earth worms, crickets and brine shrimp. You can also try other flakes or pellets to bring back it's appetite. If that doesn't work, try increasing the temperature to get its metabolism going (around 75 degrees is good). It can also be constipated, try doing a epsom salt bath with it although for shubunkins thats fairly rare.

i would hurry because if it isnt eating it could die.

Eat the fish then

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