Electric Blue Acara

[joethechickn]

My electric blue Acara has been acting weird lately. He won't eat any food that I put in. He mostly sits on the sand discolored like in the pics. What might be the cause of this?




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[Brookster123]

Looks pretty bad, let's have all.the details. Tank size,age, parameters, mates, etc..

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[joethechickn]

It's a 55 gallon fully planted tank. He's probably about a year and a half to two years old. He's in the tank with 4 angels, 4 khuli loaches, 1 bushynose pleco, 3 Cory cats, and 2 bumble bee gobys. I do a water change every 2 weeks or every week and a half and the light is on for about 6-7 hours a day and I feed them once a day micro wafers and freeze dried blood worms. I've tried tons of different cichlid foods and he spits them all out


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[Brookster123]

How much water changed? You test nitrates?

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[joethechickn]

About 50% water changes and the nitrates are fine


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[Brookster123]

About 50% water changes and the nitrates are fine


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You say.... truth?? what are your readings?
* these are your fish, I care as much as you'll let me.. i do have Eba and I value them..

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[joethechickn]

My nitrites readings are about 5-10 ppm. I am very consistent with my water changes and the tank is heavily planted


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[Brookster123]

My nitrites readings are about 5-10 ppm. I am very consistent with my water changes and the tank is heavily planted


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Trates?? Or trite?

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[coralbandit]

Got get trAtes and trItes sorted out???
Could the angels be spawning???
He looks 'not happy'???

 

[joethechickn]

The Angels are definitely not spawning. He seems to be sad but other times he is swimming around the tank and seems to be doing fine but then the next minute he will be laying on the sand so I'm not sure what to think


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[Brookster123]

The Angels are definitely not spawning. He seems to be sad but other times he is swimming around the tank and seems to be doing fine but then the next minute he will be laying on the sand so I'm not sure what to think


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What do the water tests say??

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[evil Nick]

I had a similar issue with mine a while ago. My thought was he ate something he shouldn't have like an mts and was having trouble passing it.
Could this be possible.
Is the stomach sucked in?

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[joethechickn]

That could be possible and his stomach does seem to be sucked in, but I wasn't sure if that was because he wasn't eating. I had given him a Epsom salt bath when he first started acting weird, hoping that would do the trick, but I didn't notice a difference


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[evil Nick]

That could be possible and his stomach does seem to be sucked in, but I wasn't sure if that was because he wasn't eating. I had given him a Epsom salt bath when he first started acting weird, hoping that would do the trick, but I didn't notice a difference


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I added epson to the tank in a small amount. Eventually he seemed to pass whatever it was (still think the dummy swallowed an MTS) and was back to normal. His anus area was also very swollen looking now that I recall.
Hope yours ends up the same.
Sucked in stomach could also mean parasites supposedly. Have you introduced anything new to the tank that could have brought them in?

 

[joethechickn]

I dont think I have very many Mts in the tank if any but he might have eaten something else he shouldn't have. I haven't added anything to the tank in a few months that could have introduced parasites, but I might try another Epsom salt dose and see if that works


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