How can I?
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Topic: How can I?
Posted By: RMD17
Subject: How can I?
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 10:45pm
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How do you tell a fish is sick and about to die? I have a fox face rabbitfish and his eyes look like they are getting a cloudy and he can't see his food. He wants to eat and tries but misses when he goes for it so he gives up. Is there anything wrong with him? How can I help him find his food so he can eat? thanks guys ------------- Richard & Mistie Morgan, UT |
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 11:43pm
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I wish I had some good info here. Can I ask (and predict krill) what you are feeding him? I would say soak the food in a mulitvitamin (like Zoe) and hope the increased scent helps..... but I don't think the outcome will be good. Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: RMD17
Date Posted: April 29 2005 at 12:10am
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I feed him flake food but soak it in garlic. He knows its there and tries to eat it but just misses it because he can't see it or something. ------------- Richard & Mistie Morgan, UT |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: May 05 2005 at 9:45am
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Can you share with us the size, age, and other conditions of the aquarium.
I wonder if there is something needed for prevention and possibly cure. Usually bacterial infections create this kind of condition. The overall health of the tank is critical to preventing infection. Is there any macroalgae for this foxface to eat? Do you feed Nori? Please tell us more so we can help. P.S. Though garlic isn't the cure in this situation, I believe it's better to deliver garlic soaked in frozen meaty food rather than flake food. Do you feed a frozen food like BS, Mysis etc? ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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Posted By: Kevin
Date Posted: May 05 2005 at 10:18am
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I have had 2 foxfaces now, the first one died from unknown causes. Both of them seemed to have clowdy eyes. I don't know if clowdy eyes is its problem or not.
Have you tried feeding it its favorite food? Green macro algea such as Caulerpa Racemosa and see what it does with that. When I throw in a long strand of the stuff my foxface goes crazy and eats it all. |
Posted By: Suzy
Date Posted: May 05 2005 at 11:11am
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I think you need a hospital tank.
If it is a pathogenic infection (bacterial, fungal or parasitic), it can be cured with a broad spectrum antibiotic (Spectrogram?). Lowering the temp in the hospital tank can significantly slow the pathogen, while the fishes natural defense and the antibiotic do their stuff. Add lots of bubbers. Increased o2 will only help the stressed fish. |
Posted By: Firefish
Date Posted: May 05 2005 at 6:07pm
I think garlic is dumb, your fish will die, and you should accept it.   I mean that in the kindest way, seriously. I love fish, but you will wreck your tank trying to fix a dieing fish problem. Get a UV Sterilizer and hook it up to as small a pump as you can buy, and keep it running 24/7. I think that the future will hold longevity for your fish but maybe not right now.------------- 5 gal fluval spec v http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=65727&KW=&PID=531710&title=my-new-little-one#531710 12 gallon jbj nanocube reef Stansbury Park (Tooele Area) |
Posted By: derikhills
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 1:46pm
| I have also seen a Foxface in someones tank and it also had foggy eyes, mabey foxfaces require specific foods they don't get in aquariums? That would be my guess but unfortunately I dont have the anwser. |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: May 12 2005 at 3:56pm
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Why do people post a problem and then leave us hanging, wondering if the animal is okay or not or whether it could have been helped if they had only communicated with us?
There are Rabbitfish with beautiful cloudy blue eyes. I have one. I don't know if this is natural but it does not seem to have trouble seeing. The original Foxface, Siganus Volpinus, has clear black eyes. Derikhills, it was probably my Rabbitfish you remember seeing. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member
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