one of my setups currently is a 45 gal tall seahorse pipefish tank with 2 kuda seahorses and 2 banded pipefish.
The pipefish are extremely new, brought them home 2 days ago. Seahorses I've owned for about 4 months. after looking into several different discussions I was under the impression that putting them in a qt setup before adding to the tank typically did more stress than good for pipefish, so instead I acclimated them over a 1hr time period and then added them right to the display tank. The lfs I got them at told me they had them for over a week and seemed to be doing fine on frozen foods. The day of adding them to the tank I fed Frozen mysis to them and the seahorses. My small pipefish ate fine, along with the ponies. The much larger pipefish ignored the food completely. I figured he may just be still settling in.
2 days later and he still hasn't eaten. My small one is acting perfectly fine. Enjoying all the macro algae and swimming around curiously. Breathing fine, eating fine, etc.
My larger pipefish still hasn't eaten and now has his mouth permanently open. He will NOT close it. He is still alive, but breathing incredibly fast. And like I said... Never ever closing his mouth. Not for a moment. And he stays in the exact same spot all day every day.
Anyone know what this could be???
He's approx 5-6 inches right now, pretty large.
Tank parameters:
Temp: 75-76 degrees
Salinity: 1.021
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrate: >5ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
pH: 8.0
Help if you can!! I have a bad feeling he isn't gonna make it
The pipefish are extremely new, brought them home 2 days ago. Seahorses I've owned for about 4 months. after looking into several different discussions I was under the impression that putting them in a qt setup before adding to the tank typically did more stress than good for pipefish, so instead I acclimated them over a 1hr time period and then added them right to the display tank. The lfs I got them at told me they had them for over a week and seemed to be doing fine on frozen foods. The day of adding them to the tank I fed Frozen mysis to them and the seahorses. My small pipefish ate fine, along with the ponies. The much larger pipefish ignored the food completely. I figured he may just be still settling in.
2 days later and he still hasn't eaten. My small one is acting perfectly fine. Enjoying all the macro algae and swimming around curiously. Breathing fine, eating fine, etc.
My larger pipefish still hasn't eaten and now has his mouth permanently open. He will NOT close it. He is still alive, but breathing incredibly fast. And like I said... Never ever closing his mouth. Not for a moment. And he stays in the exact same spot all day every day.
Anyone know what this could be???
He's approx 5-6 inches right now, pretty large.
Tank parameters:
Temp: 75-76 degrees
Salinity: 1.021
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrate: >5ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
pH: 8.0
Help if you can!! I have a bad feeling he isn't gonna make it