Anyone here have a flounder?

levinjac

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Originally Posted by wayner http:///forum/thread/379968/anyone-here-have-a-flounder#post_3305178
I picked the flounder because of its ability to blend in with the sand and be "invisible" to the average onlooker. Indeed the water is cloudy because of the salt but has now cleared quite a bit. I am not feeding it mysis shrimp with a turkey baster. I am feeding it real uncooked shrimp from the supermarket from a thin piece of wire, kinda like im fishing. He does seem to love it. Im sure after a while I will no longer need the wire.
 
 
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I love the sarcasm, me and you seem to be very alike. Cheers
OMG mods please take care of him hes very very rude to us
 
flower

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Quote:
Originally Posted by wayner http:///forum/thread/379968/anyone-here-have-a-flounder#post_3305178
I picked the flounder because of its ability to blend in with the sand and be "invisible" to the average onlooker. Indeed the water is cloudy because of the salt but has now cleared quite a bit. I am not feeding it mysis shrimp with a turkey baster. I am feeding it real uncooked shrimp from the supermarket from a thin piece of wire, kinda like im fishing. He does seem to love it. Im sure after a while I will no longer need the wire.
 
 
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I love the sarcasm, me and you seem to be very alike. Cheers

 
You have less than 1/16th inch of sand in your tank, and a rock about the size of a turd...You said you were not a fan of sand, then say you picked a certian critter because it looks like the sand
. I laughed till I had tears in my eyes when I read that.
 
Before the salt had dissolved you added this fish....cleared quite a bit, as in still cloudy after two days..I don't think the cloudy is undissolved salt.
 

 
 
Another heads up: By moving everything from the 55g to the 75g and adding more water...you diluted the ammonia and bought yourself and your flounder some time...in a seperate bucket mix some more salt mix with water and use a power head to churn it 24 hours or at least WAIT until the water is clear. Remove some tank water and replace it with the new fresh mixed sea water.
 
That is called a water change, it will help your flounder and should clear the tank water for a little bit.
 
fishtaco

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I know it's a flounder, but where the heck are the Tang Police when you need them?
 
Fishtaco(still feeling sorry for the fish)
 
hunt

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Wayner, please dont let those fish die, do the right thing and take them all back, cycle your tank, and get appropriate fish for your ( 55 75g whatever it is) tank. Its bad enough that aquarium fish are taken from the ocean, but you could at least give them a chance at a happy un-stressful long life. What your doing is inhumane. Do you know what would happen to you if you breathed in a bunch of ammonia? Bad things. And, why the heck do you keep posting on these boards when you know it will irritate us, and then you ignore all the advice given?
 
wayner

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Ive added more sand with the 75 gallon, but even tho its not to YOUR liking, its plenty for a flounder to live happily. I dont intentionally irritate forum members but when I dont take the advise giving everyone wets their diaper. Even the mod said "try not to be so disappointed when the advise is ignored". Here is a bit of my own advise, take the mods advise....lol. Also Flower that was a nice piece of advise given after the the pic you posted. Thats the first piece of useful advise given IMO and thats the kind of advice that should be given in threads like this. As for the other post with with tang police pics or w/e you would call them, thats something I would expect from someone like the other youngin on the bored that made a comment about my girlfriend and I gave him a little verbal abuse in return. But that just tells me fishtaco and levin jack must be as young as him, if not younger. Which is okay, we all like to have our fun :)
 
 
flower

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Originally Posted by wayner http:///forum/thread/379968/anyone-here-have-a-flounder/20#post_3305402
Ive added more sand with the 75 gallon, but even tho its not to YOUR liking, its plenty for a flounder to live happily. I dont intentionally irritate forum members but when I dont take the advise giving everyone wets their diaper. Even the mod said "try not to be so disappointed when the advise is ignored". Here is a bit of my own advise, take the mods advise....lol. Also Flower that was a nice piece of advise given after the the pic you posted. Thats the first piece of useful advise given IMO and thats the kind of advice that should be given in threads like this. As for the other post with with tang police pics or w/e you would call them, thats something I would expect from someone like the other youngin on the bored that made a comment about my girlfriend and I gave him a little verbal abuse in return. But that just tells me fishtaco and levin jack must be as young as him, if not younger. Which is okay, we all like to have our fun :)
 

 
Can I assume then you took the advice...did your water clear?
 
In nature a flounder wiggles itself into the sand and hides waiting for his prey to swim by to eat it. It also allows him to hide from fish that would eat him. I don't know how much more sand you added, it should be at least enough to allow the flounder to wiggle in, it not only will make it happy but the added sand will also help keep the cloudy away.
 
Do you have any test kits besides the strip kind? Go to the fish store, they have what is called an ammonia alert badge, at least get that, very cheap maybe $3.00. If you see ammonia creeping up, do another water change. Make sure the new water is clear before you add it, so make it up ahead of time before you need it.
 
As long as there is no ammonia, and you keep doing a water change your flounder should survive, it's really good you found a way to get it to eat. I think that's how people get critters like lionfish to eat when they want only live food.
 
 
wayner

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I havent did what you said simply because I didnt have the time yet, but I plan on doing it tonight or tomaoro. Yes there is more than enough sand for the flounder to do that, he does that all the time. Id say there is 1.5 to 2 inches of sand in there right now. On top of what you said im also going to get a bottle of bacteria to speed up the process.
 
here is a pic the second day after setting up the 75 gallon

 
p.s this is how a thread is suppose to flow
 
levinjac

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good you have nothing in there yet now you just need to get rid of the fish
and add more rock alot more rock
 
levinjac

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hmmmmmm no i dont I dont have one because i live in arizona so my house it self is like 80 degreese but in ny thats pretty bad
 
flower

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Originally Posted by Fishtaco http:///forum/thread/379968/anyone-here-have-a-flounder/20#post_3305544
Speaking of having anything in there, can you see any sign of heaters in that tank? I don't see any.
 
Fishtaco
 

 
Bringing you up to date:
 
It is a 75g tank 1 week old, the 55g was a week old...so that water is 2 weeks old. The tank is new, and I'm pretty sure the75g tank is sitting on a 55g stand so there has to be an a little bit of tank overhang. I don't see it in the picture, I assume that is the case.
 
That's an older picture, he has fish in there now, a flounder, a shark egg and a damsel.
 
No skimmer, no heater, no power heads, very little rock (maybe 1/4 pound), and he said he added some more sand, so now he has about 2 inches. He says he hasn't had time to change the water that is cloudy yet, and he did get the flounder to eat a chunk of shrimp.
 
 
levinjac

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All i have to say is if wayner fails he can look me up i want his tank to start on and hopfully fix
 
wayner

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that is a recent pic as you can see the shark egg The heater and the damsel are in the corner. Its a 75 gallon stand, I purchased it the same time i did the tank. I just got back from pet smart and got a ammonia alert badge.
 
flower

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Originally Posted by wayner http:///forum/thread/379968/anyone-here-have-a-flounder/20#post_3305624
that is a recent pic as you can see the shark egg and the heater and the damsel are in the corner. Its a 75 gallon stand, I purchased it the same time i did the tank. I just got back from pet smart and got a ammonia alert badge.

 
 
Good on the stand..I wasn't sure. Also very good on the alert badge, at least you will know if trouble is creeping up on you. I don't see a shark egg, a heater or the damsel in that tank. Do you have fresh saltwater made up, in case you need to do an emergency water change? If that badge shows ammonia, the critters are in serious trouble and you will have to act fast to save them.

I see two HOB filters, a mag float and a thermometer and a tiny bit of rock on a very thin sand bed. No fish at all.

wait...I can see a very faint something that looks like it could be a heater, I thought it was a reflection of the HOB intake tube. Still no fish, no shark egg, no flounder
 
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