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    Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

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    Can any anyone help?

    My 6-inch Pacu fish has a peculiar malady which causes it to suffer pain. When it swallows any food, it will immediately show signs of choking, as though the food is causing it extreme pain. For this reason, it does not eat anything anymore. But whenever it tries to eat a small piece of food, the same thing happens again.

    Any ideas what could be the problem? I am at a loss, as it is my favourite fish.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    hope you have found a cure to it

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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Quote Originally Posted by alvinT View Post
    hope you have found a cure to it
    The poor fish appears to be suffering with an internal inflamation which makes it extremely painful for it to eat even a tiny bit of food. It hasn't eaten for more than a week already.

    I'm afraid I may lose him soon.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    why not try asking the foreign forum , I guess they are much keen to reply on your problem... delay no further my friend.

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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Quote Originally Posted by alvinT View Post
    why not try asking the foreign forum , I guess they are much keen to reply on your problem... delay no further my friend.
    I have given up hope of it recovering, as it has been 10 days since the problem started. I appears that a bit of food have been lodged or stuck in its gills or throat causing it great pain.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Fishes can fast for days...

    Btw, what is the diet before this happen? Mp gs or live feed?


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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Quote Originally Posted by genki89 View Post
    Fishes can fast for days...

    Btw, what is the diet before this happen? Mp gs or live feed?


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    Mixed diet of small pellets, but I also gave soaked soya bean stick broken into small pieces. I suspect one harder piece of it could have been lodged in the gills as it was always very eager to prefer eating that.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    If thats the case u can try looking around the gills to look for any suspicious particles.

    I feed live fish to my oscar once and it stop eating for the next few days.. Den i found out that the fish was stucked at the throat area.

    What i did was using the pail of water containing the fish tank water, blast with air pump, scope the fish up and hold it firmly with a rag. Using a pincer/tweezer i remove the dead fish choked inside the throat.

    That was the only choice since it stopped eating for the past few days and eventually its going to meet its end. Since u are prepared to loss the fish, i think u can give it a shot and i hope the best for u.

    Ps my oscar was pump size, around 12cm


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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    thank you Genki. Appreciate your utmost response to the life of this small marine creature.

    how's your fish doing now tetrakid ?

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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Quote Originally Posted by alvinT View Post
    thank you Genki. Appreciate your utmost response to the life of this small marine creature.

    how's your fish doing now tetrakid ?
    I did try taking a look as suggested by Genki but did not see anything inside the throat. I think it must be a small piece stuck deep inside somewhere.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    U might wanna taking using touch light and chopstick method to look through the mouth.

    Not sure whether it can be applied here as i know some koi fish and arrowana keeper operate their fish in such method to find foreign object

    Or u can try this method in the web.
    http://www.myaquariumclub.com/help-o...-12372417.html


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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Quote Originally Posted by genki89 View Post
    U might wanna taking using touch light and chopstick method to look through the mouth.

    Not sure whether it can be applied here as i know some koi fish and arrowana keeper operate their fish in such method to find foreign object

    Or u can try this method in the web.
    http://www.myaquariumclub.com/help-o...-12372417.html
    YB

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    Thanks for the help Genki.

    Now I remember, it may not be the food I gave it but maybe it is something else. A week before,, it must have eaten 3 Green Tiger Barbs and one Angelfish in the same tank, as those fish disappeared when I fed them in the morning.

    Anyway, since I have zero experience in handling fish in such operations, I am afraid I may make its condition even worse.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Tiger barbs are full of spikes and bones... Try adding some aquarium salt and u can try some lfs for some drops that helps to recover those inflammation.

    Alternatively u can try flooding ur tank with boon aka sea monkey.

    Cheers hope it helps to save ur wallet and ur fish


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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Update: I have put it down (with the ice method) as it showed signs of unbearable pain and complications.

    Perhaps it is well that it happened this way, since I might be faced with a much bigger problem later on when it grows to 18 inches.
    Actually I had all this while been mulling over how I will be able to resolve the problem arising from it's growth. I had thought of eventually giving it away to someone who has the means to keep it, since this particular Pacu is a rare specimen of its kind on account of its unusual fins (see my gallery).

    I can now see that this is the kind of problems which keepers of bigger fish can face which I had no idea of before. This incident alone has made me given up keeping any big fish again.
    Last edited by tetrakid; 14th Aug 2016 at 13:29.
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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    whats unusual fin , the caudal and anal fin overlapping ?

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    Re: Need Help With My Pacu Fish Problem

    Quote Originally Posted by limz_777 View Post
    whats unusual fin , the caudal and anal fin overlapping ?
    Ya, I have been looking around the shops, (but not farms) and I find that usually, the fins are different from this configuration, so I bought it, as it is the only one that is so special in the crowded tank of Pacus. It was about 1-2 inches when I bought it.

    If you noticed, the small fin on the back near the tail is missing too, while other Pacus have it.
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