Need some help fast with an L200....
Posted: 20 Aug 2003, 05:24
okay so i got 2 L200's last wednesday. both got through shipping well and were acclimated to their holding tank. no fighting seen, in fact strangely enough these two were inseparable.
i was having trouble getting them to eat, and i tried everything. shrimp pellets, cucumber, live blackworms, frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, and mysis shrimp so far. but no eating...
yesterday i woke up to find that one had died. it's belly was a little swollen, but this was the one that had eaten a little. i'm not sure what that means.
today i go down to do a water change on the holding tank, and the other one isn't looking so great. it's belly is sunken and it's breathing kind of fast. also i'm not getting too much of a response when i move things in the tank. it just kind of sits there.
i took a look at the tank, and i realized that the temp was very high, about 88. the holding tank was in the basement where it's usually cooler, but in this heat it's been the opposite down there. i moved the remaining L200 into an established 10 gallon that i have upstairs. there are only 4 metae corys in the tank with it. the temp in that tank is 84, but in this heat i can't really get it any lower. i added a air diffuser to try to help with o2 exchange, and turned off the lights.
the plec is wedged in a corner now between the glass and a piece of slate. i'm concerned because it's still breathing hard, and it's not attaching itself to the glass. it's just kind of resting against the glass to hold itself up. no real movement, and no eating.
is there any hope of saving this guy? i don't know what to do for him....
i was having trouble getting them to eat, and i tried everything. shrimp pellets, cucumber, live blackworms, frozen bloodworms, brine shrimp, and mysis shrimp so far. but no eating...
yesterday i woke up to find that one had died. it's belly was a little swollen, but this was the one that had eaten a little. i'm not sure what that means.
today i go down to do a water change on the holding tank, and the other one isn't looking so great. it's belly is sunken and it's breathing kind of fast. also i'm not getting too much of a response when i move things in the tank. it just kind of sits there.
i took a look at the tank, and i realized that the temp was very high, about 88. the holding tank was in the basement where it's usually cooler, but in this heat it's been the opposite down there. i moved the remaining L200 into an established 10 gallon that i have upstairs. there are only 4 metae corys in the tank with it. the temp in that tank is 84, but in this heat i can't really get it any lower. i added a air diffuser to try to help with o2 exchange, and turned off the lights.
the plec is wedged in a corner now between the glass and a piece of slate. i'm concerned because it's still breathing hard, and it's not attaching itself to the glass. it's just kind of resting against the glass to hold itself up. no real movement, and no eating.
is there any hope of saving this guy? i don't know what to do for him....
