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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| How long can a fish go without eating?
As you might have seen from my other threads, I think my guppy has ammonia poisining, which I'm dealing with. But, he won't eat! He completely ignores the food, even though I've been doing 50% water changes every day. How long can he last like this? | 
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| I had a guppy like that... he lasted a week  | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Anyone else had any experience with it? | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Moderator
| Was he eating then stopped?
Changing foods might help. | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| To directly answer the question; many days. Fish don't waste calories on producing body heat, so they don't eat as much for their body weight as us warm blooded critters.
However, with a sick fish, it will be burning calories on trying to heal itself. As Lucy suggested, changing food might help, as might soaking the food in garlic juice. He might also like freeze-dried daphnia. | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Yes, he was eating and then he stopped. He hasn't eaten in at least 4 days. I'm getting worreid about him. I put a Cheerio in the tank, thinking he might nibble on it... but, he doesn't seem interested.
I know I've mentioned this many times before, but his mouth appears to be stuck open and he looks bloated, but I don't think it's dropsy because I don't see any scales sticking out.
The really weird thing is this it looks like he has a hole in the middle of the front of his upper lip! I've never heard of anything like that before.
And a little goos news: The red spot looks a little better. | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Anyone ever heard of a fish with a hole before? | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Master
| Like hole in the head disease? | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by MaddieLynn  I know I've mentioned this many times before, but his mouth appears to be stuck open and he looks bloated, but I don't think it's dropsy because I don't see any scales sticking out.
The really weird thing is this it looks like he has a hole in the middle of the front of his upper lip! I've never heard of anything like that before.
And a little goos news: The red spot looks a little better. |  I must have missed the part about the mouth being stuck open, bloated and a hole in his lip.
Poor thing.
Check this, see if anything resembles your fish. JBL Online Hosptial | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| Some of the bacterial infections resemble him with the red spot, but I didn't find anything that looks like his lip. | |
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January 19th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| I had a harlequin rasbora with a red spot on his side and what looked like a white/clear 'bubble' on his lower lip. After a week the 'bubble' fell off and there was a hole. I never knew what it was, but I did find an article (sorry don't have the ref) that said some fish may develop cysts on their lips. I was terrified it was cotton mouth (I know now it wasn't). The hole/bubble thing didn't seem to bother the fish at all. | |
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January 20th, 2009
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| | Fish Keeper
| He died this morning | |
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January 21st, 2009
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| | Fish Addict
| Im so sorry  | |
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January 21st, 2009
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| | Moderator
| Sorry to hear that. | |
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