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10/27/2004, 04:40 PM
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Help, Sick Lion!!!!
I have a Volitan Lion fish in a 120G tank w/ Bursa trigger, Snowflake Eel, and a Foxface Lo... The lion fish has done well since I got him in March. Eating silvers sides from day one. Over the last five days he has started to show very bad health signs: fading color, eyes clouding over, not eating, slugish.
Water parameters: temp 82, specific gravity 1.021, ammonia 0, nitrite 0 , nitrate 40 Help!! Not sure what is happening and what should be done!!! |
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10/27/2004, 05:35 PM
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To me it sounds like flukes. If you have a quarantine tank set it up and use the proper medicine (fluke tabs, pennicillin, copper) or you could freshwater dip it but, i don't like to use that method. There are many ways to cure the situation and you have to find what would work best. (don't mix medications)
good luck
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10/28/2004, 09:00 AM
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Have you posted in the fish disease forum?
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10/28/2004, 10:17 AM
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Go and buy some meds - something wide-spectrum (some of that maracin brand stuff works very well). IME if you treat a lion like this fast they almost all recover - if you don't they almost always die.
BTW, do a 25% water change asap - that's always a good thing to do in this situation.
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