Rare Adult Elephant Fish, Or So I Was Told.

[karin15]

your squirting bloodworms idea worked perfectly thanks! he eat lots of bloodworms tonight.

 

[Nevergone815]

ok my advice is that the nitrite spike was from what you said that you fed to much and it sat there. feed with the dropper as you said that works. do small (like 10-25%) water changes daily to make sure you're nitrites say down. what you did (if i understand correctly) is cloned your old tank. you took everything from there and added it to your new tank right? filter media and gravel and such? that's 2 methods of cloning in one, so you should be good.

IMO, the nitrite spike not only was from the extra food sitting, but the fact that maybe your bacteria colony wasn't strong enough to do the slightly extra bio load. after all it was strong enough to live off of the 25 gallon. it was put into a 55 gallon and needed to catch up. not fact, but just a theory or idea. i feel your tank will be fine, just keep a look out until you no longer get nitrites and do water changes when they get a reading on the test (if they do). as said, elephant noses are EXTREMELY sensitive, but i feel that you are doing good, just keep up what you are doing with the water changes when needed and use the dropper to feed it and everything will be good.

good luck with it and if possible please by all means post pictures. i love these guys, but don't have a tank that i could put one in right at the moment. .

 

[CFC]

I would withhold food for 24 hours to allow the bacteria in the filter to catch up without any increase and then put them all on one feeding a day (in the evening) for the next week, after that all should be well.

Cloning a tank is a perfectably acceptable way to start a new tank but the over feeding will have put stress on the bacteria colony, give them a few days and theyll easily handle the new bioload. Just keep a watch on those water stats and do water changes if needed, you can never change too much water.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

by the way, "cloning" a tank refers to using filter materials and gravel from a cycled tank to start the nitrogen cycle in a new tank--which is exactly what you did.

 

[karin15]

thanks guys i'm so relived so all my fish arnt going to die or get poisend

and my elephant nose is doing realy well now, he follows the vacume around when i clean the tank its so cute!

I would withhold food for 24 hours to allow the bacteria in the filter to catch up without any increase and then put them all on one feeding a day (in the evening) for the next week, after that all should be well.

Cloning a tank is a perfectably acceptable way to start a new tank but the over feeding will have put stress on the bacteria colony, give them a few days and theyll easily handle the new bioload. Just keep a watch on those water stats and do water changes if needed, you can never change too much water.

roger! Thanks for your help

ok my advice is that the nitrite spike was from what you said that you fed to much and it sat there. feed with the dropper as you said that works. do small (like 10-25%) water changes daily to make sure you're nitrites say down. what you did (if i understand correctly) is cloned your old tank. you took everything from there and added it to your new tank right? filter media and gravel and such? that's 2 methods of cloning in one, so you should be good.

IMO, the nitrite spike not only was from the extra food sitting, but the fact that maybe your bacteria colony wasn't strong enough to do the slightly extra bio load. after all it was strong enough to live off of the 25 gallon. it was put into a 55 gallon and needed to catch up. not fact, but just a theory or idea. i feel your tank will be fine, just keep a look out until you no longer get nitrites and do water changes when they get a reading on the test (if they do). as said, elephant noses are EXTREMELY sensitive, but i feel that you are doing good, just keep up what you are doing with the water changes when needed and use the dropper to feed it and everything will be good.

good luck with it and if possible please by all means post pictures. i love these guys, but don't have a tank that i could put one in right at the moment. .

thanks for your help = )

 

[Gankutsuou]

oooh. Okay. I didn't get that he cloned the tank. I missed the part where he said he used the same filter media.

In that case, good job then
It's wasn't the fact that you skipped the period, it's the fact that you were cloning. I thought you were saying that due to the volume, you could do nothing and skip.

But now I get that you cloned

Anyways, good luck with it all. It sounds like you've got it set.

I would still suggust keeping the 20 and letting the African Butterfly in it though. I just don't see it working with goumari or angels.

 

[karin15]

oooh. Okay. I didn't get that he cloned the tank. I missed the part where he said he used the same filter media.

In that case, good job then
It's wasn't the fact that you skipped the period, it's the fact that you were cloning. I thought you were saying that due to the volume, you could do nothing and skip.

But now I get that you cloned

Anyways, good luck with it all. It sounds like you've got it set.

I would still suggust keeping the 20 and letting the African Butterfly in it though. I just don't see it working with goumari or angels.

I think your right, the gorami's show minute amounts of agresion, but the angles pick at something and folowi it around for a long time, but thats not so easy to do since i cloned my tank my 20 gallon is just a bare tank, i would have to re- set it up and new gravel, and i would have to w8 a runing period, witch would take a mounth and the fish is ariveing here tomorow, i already asked john he says there is less of a chance of agresion in a bigger tank but these are anglefish were talking about you never know how there going to react to a new fish, so if anything dose go wrong he can take care of it for as long as i need, that might be the best solution.