plow
04-04-2008, 05:51 PM
Ok, I have two wild type angels that seemed perfectly healthy.. however one has outgrown the other significantly.. the smaller one was at one stage the bigger of the two. Neither are close to fully grown, they must be 5 to 6 months old.
The one that is small I suspect has something wrong with it, it hasn't grown, its losing the red streak in its eyes, its skinny and the thing that is worrying me is that it just spits out any food it attempts to eat.
Each meal time it races around the tank looking at the food (flakes, NLS, etc) and while the other one eats up a storm this one takes a bite, and spits it out. It never used to do this. I dont think it is getting any food at all, especially when you compare the massive difference in growing rates. Ive had them both about 4 months.
The tank is 30 gal, possibly a bit crowded, with 10 cardnials, two very young and small clown loaches and 3 oto cats. I have loads of live plants, and driftwood, sand substrate.
I change water once a fortnight, about 50%, pH around 8.
No ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates less than 10 with regular water changes and such a small bioload.
It must be a sickness of some type, and im losing interest rapidly with angels, they are so fickle, they seem to be the first to go, in fact the only ones that go at my house.
Any clues?
The one that is small I suspect has something wrong with it, it hasn't grown, its losing the red streak in its eyes, its skinny and the thing that is worrying me is that it just spits out any food it attempts to eat.
Each meal time it races around the tank looking at the food (flakes, NLS, etc) and while the other one eats up a storm this one takes a bite, and spits it out. It never used to do this. I dont think it is getting any food at all, especially when you compare the massive difference in growing rates. Ive had them both about 4 months.
The tank is 30 gal, possibly a bit crowded, with 10 cardnials, two very young and small clown loaches and 3 oto cats. I have loads of live plants, and driftwood, sand substrate.
I change water once a fortnight, about 50%, pH around 8.
No ammonia, no nitrites, nitrates less than 10 with regular water changes and such a small bioload.
It must be a sickness of some type, and im losing interest rapidly with angels, they are so fickle, they seem to be the first to go, in fact the only ones that go at my house.
Any clues?