All my fish stopped eating!help

[bbryan9455]

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[bbryan9455]

I have two 4 inch Oscars and a jack Dempsey in a 55 . I do 25% weekly water changes. All fish stopped been interested in food for almost a week now.i have to clean out all the food. They don't touch it

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[spazmattik]

Do you give them feeders?

 

[bbryan9455]

No, I feed em hikari gold pelets

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[Localzoo]

Similar situation last week but my guys just started eating again after a few days... I think since our AC kicked in it caused weird temp fluctuation...I don't know just a guess


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[bbryan9455]

Yeah it might be that. I thought I had an ammonia spike so I did almost a full water change but didn't help. All winter the temp stayed around 75. it's Been at 80 82 recently

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[bbryan9455]

Just don't want my fish to starve to death

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[dogofwar]

They won't starve (it would take months). I'd do some additional water changes and NOT feed them for about week.

If they're not hungry then, I'd be a little concerned...

Matt

 

[bbryan9455]

Thanks for the help

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[Jeff721]

Increase the oxygen level in the water. The temperature swing that you described is enough to affect the dissolved oxygen level. Higher oxygen level equals hungrier fish.

On a not-totally-unrelated side note. Not sure how big your fish are, but you should probably be doing 50 percent water changes twice a week for 4 Oscars in a 55 gallon. And of course that size tank isn't sufficient for even one of them as an adult. But I'll assume you're growing them out for now.

 

[bbryan9455]

I have a bubble bar almost half the lenth of the tank with a air pump rated for a 60 gallons. I have 2 Oscars around 4 inches and a jd and yeah I will be getting a 150 gallon

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[bbryan9455]

Today I fed them chucks of a striped bass I caught. They devoured it. Does anyone have Oscars that won't eat pellets?

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