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troy272

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i fed him some flakes today because they arent eating the freeze dried stuff i got and one of them puked his food up. why is this? can someone help me?
 

Holly9937

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How long have you had the fish for?
 

troy272

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ive had the older one for about a month and a half and the newer one for about 2 or 3 days. they were fighting for the first few minutes i had them but now theyre paired up. maybe the filtration had something to do with it also. the water was looking rather murky and i realized the filter cartridge had been in there for about a month and a half so i changed it and cleaned all the filter parts because they were dirty and i also discovered that the filter arm insert thing is bent so i have to get a new one. maybe thats why he was puking. could it be the water being so dirty?
 

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do you crush up the flakes or serve them whole? Whenever I used to serve my flakes whole they would bight the food them throw it back up then eat it again..ya gross. That's what they did! I guess to get it into smaller pieces. Don't know if that's what your's are doin though.
 

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Mine spit out and re-eat flakes if they are too big, too. Eventually, they get smaller and they eat them. Gross, but I started breaking up the flakes and it stopped...
 

troy272

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Squealor said:
Mine spit out and re-eat flakes if they are too big, too. Eventually, they get smaller and they eat them. Gross, but I started breaking up the flakes and it stopped...

ill try that when i feed them tonight. ( i feed them twice a day is that too much?) and ill see what they do.


thanks so much for the help guys,
Troy
 

judgemax

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i agree it might be the fish just mouthing th efood to break it down ..tyr crushing the flakes smaller as stated in th eprevious post! good luck ..!
 
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