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Hey all, just wanted to post an update. Unfortunately Doge passed away that evening (the night before last.) I imagine he just had too much internal damage. As you might imagine I took it pretty hard myself. My daughter as well, but this too shall pass. We sent him off respectfully with a nice...

Ahhh ok. I took the skin off and cut in in half but can def get it smaller. Even when I smashed it, he wasn't interested. When I showed him his bottle of pellets (he usually gets excited about that)to see if he would stir, no movement. He actually was much more lethargic today and still...

Just wanted to give everyone an update. He's not better, but seems much better than he was! He's actually moved around quite a few times, hid in his house for a bit and kept peeking out his windows (he loves that), and hung out on his hammock. He does seem to be swimming in a darty/jerky manner...

Awesome advice, will do! Added 6 drops of seachem to hopefully take care of the baddies from the .25 ammonia. I work from home so keeping an eye on him and testing shouldn't be an issue. He's still at the top but now he's opening closing his mouth a lot, like taking breaths. Googled it, found...

Ok got it. Try feeding him a pea, hold off on the water changes. Hold off until when -- when the nitrates are at a certain level (assuming the ammonia stays low?) Which level? Adjustable heater on the shopping list as well as blood worms for when he feels better -- any heater recommendations...

Oh, also, should we do the water change with seachem prime, stresscoat, both? Any water from the other tanks? Thanks!

He does have a filter, sorry for the long responses it probably got lost in there. We took the filter back from the other tank and put it in last night, so he's had a filter for about 22 hours now, and had the 75% water change then as well. Was that ok? Figured it would be good for him with the...

Here are the tank readings: PH: 8.2 Ammonia: .25 nitrite: 0 nitrate: 0 This is after the approx 75% water change last night. He's still lethargic and hanging near the top, near the heater. Since the ammonia is still slightly high after that, is it possible it is ammonia poisoning? So we have...

He just got home with the test kit, a 3 gallon hospital aquarium and all of this: seachem prime api freshwater master test kit api stress coat seachem neutral regulator Kent Marine superbuffer dkh API aquarium salt Going to run the tests now and report back before we do a water change to...

FYI, over 2 hours later, he's still wedged between the heater and the filter at the top of the tank. Half his body is out of water. Maybe to take breaths? Or could be another reason to be near them. Figure that might be helpful.

Hey everyone! Need some triage assistance stat, it would be greatly appreciated! I apologize if I can't answer all of these questions in advance. I'm not the one who bought and care for the fish, but I am the one now up at 1:30AM trying to fix whatever he's done wrong. I'm sure some of you can...