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I’m at a crossroads
I don’t know what to do
So this is what I saw a few days ago
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This is today
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I don’t know if I should just take him out. But I don’t have a qt. I do have a bucket with some cycle rocks that’s still full of water.
I don’t want him to nuke my tank
 
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I scooped him up into a container that I zip tied to the top of the tank. There is no water flow in the container. I could cut hole in it. But again I worry about the rest of the tank.
 

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Here’s my preferred way to DIY a nem cup. Take a plastic cup (I prefer the clear for observation purposes) and make holes in it. I use a wood burning tool (picture below) to melt perfectly circular holes quickly that allow for water flow. Monitor him carefully and hopefully with some flow and good lighting he should do better.
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In your pictures, they kind of look like worms? Are they worms? Brown slime? Jelly-like substance? You’re noticing holes in the nem, so they aren’t coming out of the mouth?
 
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Here’s my preferred way to DIY a nem cup. Take a plastic cup (I prefer the clear for observation purposes) and make holes in it. I use a wood burning tool (picture below) to melt perfectly circular holes quickly that allow for water flow. Monitor him carefully and hopefully with some flow and good lighting he should do better.
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Well I used what I had cut a few hole in it now
 

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Okay your first pic definitely has a gaping mouth, your second pic looks like it’s expelling something, possibly worms. Can you take a sample of whatever is coming out of the nem and put it on a piece of white paper so we can see it a little better?
 
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In your pictures, they kind of look like worms? Are they worms? Brown slime? Jelly-like substance? You’re noticing holes in the nem, so they aren’t coming out of the mouth?
No these things are now coming from other places than his mouth
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Okay your first pic definitely has a gaping mouth, your second pic looks like it’s expelling something, possibly worms. Can you take a sample of whatever is coming out of the nem and put it on a piece of white paper so we can see it a little better?
They seem or it seems attached
 

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Make sure the nem is getting a good amount of flow, not blasted but enough to pass water through the cup. You haven’t fed it right?
 

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Try blowing it off gently, hopefully it’s just expelling waste due to the stress of moving and will be okay. Worst case scenario it’s prolapsing it’s guts (vomits out it’s own organs) and may not recover. What color is it? White, brownish?
 
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Try blowing it off gently, hopefully it’s just expelling waste due to the stress of moving and will be okay. Worst case scenario it’s prolapsing it’s guts (vomits out it’s own organs) and may not recover. What color is it? White, brownish?
White with like a line running through it
And it doesn’t blow off I tried that
 

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