For the last several weeks, I've noticed one of my bolivian rams has been spitting out all of his food - Omega sinking pellets, Hikari carnivore pellets, peas, Jungle Labs anti-parasite food (but then nobody eats that stuff), frozen brine shrimp, & frozen blood worms. I found this thread, http://www.cichlid-forum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=220262&sid=4915eee26223131bf6972d07ae91d285 where somebody describes successfully treating their tank with Tetra Parasite Guard. Jungle Parasite Clear was the closest I could find, so I treated the whole tank (55gal) with that 3 times, doing a 25% water change before the second and third doses. For a few days he was able to eat some food before he started spitting stuff out, but the last two days he's been spitting out everything. I had a similar problem with another ram purchased at the same time as this little guy a year ago and eventually had to euthanize him.
Everything seems to be right with the tank and there haven't been any new additions to the tank:
0 ammonia & nitrite
<20ppm nitrate
pH around 7.2
water temp around 78
Can anybody recommend other treatments or suggestions on what might be wrong? Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Everything seems to be right with the tank and there haven't been any new additions to the tank:
0 ammonia & nitrite
<20ppm nitrate
pH around 7.2
water temp around 78
Can anybody recommend other treatments or suggestions on what might be wrong? Any help is appreciated, thanks!