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    cacatuoides and snails

    how do you think they eat them? i had some clea helena's in my tank, but i have put them in my shrimp tank few weeks ago to clean the snails there. But i keep finding empty snailhouses in my main tank, so i would guess the caca's suck them out of there house? Cos other fish in tank cant be...
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    cacatuoides and snails

    hi all, i have harem of cacatuoides in my tank, and have a little poolsnail-infestation. My former male caca have had one of those snails stuck in his mouth. I had to pull it out and it left his mouth open for a day or so. Now my new male caca had also a snail in his mouth. He sucked...
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    Cacatuoides stays at bottom of tank and doesnt eat

    update: i isolated the fish with some antibiotics in the water, but he died 24 hours later. I guess he was already too sick to survive :( Got a QT-tank atm which is growing the bacteries now so he will be ready to use in 2 weeks. Got a new male atm, hope everything will go allright from now on
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    Cacatuoides stays at bottom of tank and doesnt eat

    As i had surgery last week, i'm still not too good on my feet, so i tried to do as much as i can do for now. Put him in a bucket with an airpump and put some sera baktopur in the bucket. Did a towel over the bucket and put him in a silent room, close to a heatsource, so the water doesnt cool...
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    Cacatuoides stays at bottom of tank and doesnt eat

    it could be environmental, i did a big cleanup in the tank, and made the decoration otherwise so that there would be much more shelterplaces for the female caca's and for my catfish. So everything went to an other place. the expensive medication doesnt matter, i'm willing to pay for it if it...
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    Cacatuoides stays at bottom of tank and doesnt eat

    he is still the same, looks good on the outside, but doesnt eat, even if i put food in front of him. but he still doesnt swim either. should i euthanise him to let it not suffer any longer? or should i keep waiting and hoping he pulls through? i've read the 21 pages of topics in this...
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    Cacatuoides stays at bottom of tank and doesnt eat

    hi all, New to the board, but happy to be here, as its a specialised forum for apistogramma's. I have 4 apistogramma cacatuoides in my 240l tank. 1male and 3 female. My male has been sick since last week. I first thought it was because i just started that week with adding plant...
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