Hi, had this guy a little over 2 months now and it's been mixed results.
As anybody who has kept one of these fish or knows about them, they are definately a special needs fish, although my sandbed is around 3 inches the sand is mostly quite soft so I got plenty of rubble for him to make a burrow and settle.
Over the months he has made many burrows, but just can't seem to settle on one even though some of them have looked fine to me, he just keeps moving.
Over the last 7-10 days I started to notice white patches developing on him, he's still eating but prefers when I more or less handfeed him, right now Im just giving him mostly garlic brine to try and boost his immune system, to be honest I thought he would already be dead by now
He's in the tank with 2 clowns and a firefish which all leave him alone so it's not stress over a territory issue or anything, my water params are more or less perfect so it's not that either. The tank is 275L and I keep temp around 23-24 degrees.
Either im getting something wrong with the fact he cant settle on a burrow or im feeding him the wrong diet, my question is....can I save this fish?
I have attached a picture to show you what I am talking about with the white patches.
As anybody who has kept one of these fish or knows about them, they are definately a special needs fish, although my sandbed is around 3 inches the sand is mostly quite soft so I got plenty of rubble for him to make a burrow and settle.
Over the months he has made many burrows, but just can't seem to settle on one even though some of them have looked fine to me, he just keeps moving.
Over the last 7-10 days I started to notice white patches developing on him, he's still eating but prefers when I more or less handfeed him, right now Im just giving him mostly garlic brine to try and boost his immune system, to be honest I thought he would already be dead by now
He's in the tank with 2 clowns and a firefish which all leave him alone so it's not stress over a territory issue or anything, my water params are more or less perfect so it's not that either. The tank is 275L and I keep temp around 23-24 degrees.
Either im getting something wrong with the fact he cant settle on a burrow or im feeding him the wrong diet, my question is....can I save this fish?
I have attached a picture to show you what I am talking about with the white patches.