my cowfish

[Deadeye]

I got a longhorn cowfish and it has been doing great for over a week. Tonight when I got home it was stuck to my SEIO and I do not know how long he had been like that, could have been for a long time. I unplugged the SEIO and took it out and just left a maxijet 1200 in the tank.

Then the cowfish kept swimming by the overflow box and kept getting stuck there which has never happend before and I had to push him off a few times and he isn't swimming to good either. Now he is in between the live rock sitting there looking all angry, I have never seen him do this, he is usually swimming back and forth in the tank and has never bed down in the live rock before.


update: as I was typing this I changed the direction of flow to the point to the back of the tank, and he came out and glided around a little but is now back down in the live rock.

I fear maybe he got hurt getting stuck? Any idea what I can do? The puffer we have did the same thing sorta though, he swam around and didn't bed down for about a week and then started to and now does on a regular basis.

I dunno, any suggestions?

 

[John Kelly]

We always wanted one, but never got one because they can release a toxin if they die that can kill your other fish.
I hope it doesn't croak on you. They are neat.

Sorry I'm not much help otherwise. Maybe it's just stressed and worn out at the moment .

 

[Deadeye]

I'm not to worried about the toxin, I'm running a lot of carbon.

I found it dead this morning, I will do a water change and carbon change just to be safe. (I have to wait till after work until I can go get RODI water and do the change though, kinda sucks)

I am going to see if Fewell's can get me a larger one, the one I had was tiny.

Death by SEIO.

 

[Deadeye]

I got a new bigger cowfish, but he didn't eat the mysis I fed today. Is there something I can use to get this guy to eat?

 

[fewells]

You just got it last night. Be calm. It may take a few days.

 

[Deadeye]

Oh, what about the puffer? He won't eat anything hard; snails, hermits, frozen shrimp. How am I going to keep his teeth worn down?

 

[ledford1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8512146#post8512146 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Deadeye
Oh, what about the puffer? He won't eat anything hard; snails, hermits, frozen shrimp. How am I going to keep his teeth worn down?

Your puffer will probably find ways to wear down his teeth when he feels its time.

I have never seen my Dogface chew on anything. But sometimes I'll look at the tank in the morning, and see that he's worn down his teeth. A couple of times I've found him with almost no top teeth visible. We called him Hillbilly for awhile because he had worn down one side of his two top chompers.

I'm not sure how he does it though. Perhaps he chews on some of the empty snail shells at the bottom of the tank? Maybe he grinds them on the rock? I don't know how, he just does.