Hi all!
This is going to be rather short, as I am typing on my phone. I'm having some issues with my fish. I have a divided 10 gallon, heated to around 80 and filtered.
Issue 1: halfmoon male is bloated. Now, I'm blaming myself because I know there's a chance I overfed him. The pellets are small and I recall putting in a few too many. Some usually sink so I didn't think anything of it. He's been bloated for a number of days now with no change unfortunately. Would my best course of action be epsom salts and some frozen daphnia if I can find some?? Any insight is welcomed.
Issue 2: new aquabid halfmoon. This guy was at the bottom of the box, underneath two other fish and the heat pack as at the top. He was super cold when I got the box - they had also been in a truck all day for what was supposed to be a delivery. Well I wasn't sure he was alive on arrival, but he was. I got them home and acclimated them all the same over quite some time. I noticed he was in different positions in his bag, near verticle, tail up. I didn't think much of it other than stress and small bag. He didn't seem to have any issues. Released in the divided tank and I notice his heavy breathing doesn't subside over the next day or two. Then, he stops swimming around and struggled to reach te surface. I cupped him and floated it. Now, after two days he's still breathing very heavy and I'm seeing some pineconing of his scales. I'm not sure what to think other than dropsy. I'm concerned as to my other fish now since they share the same water. Is there anything I can do for pineconing? I'm going to take my other one out tomorrow and keep him quarantined as a safety precaution.
I'll add more tomorrow if needed! If someone can give me maybe some insight as to a course of action that would be great.
Fingers crossed for my boys.
This is going to be rather short, as I am typing on my phone. I'm having some issues with my fish. I have a divided 10 gallon, heated to around 80 and filtered.
Issue 1: halfmoon male is bloated. Now, I'm blaming myself because I know there's a chance I overfed him. The pellets are small and I recall putting in a few too many. Some usually sink so I didn't think anything of it. He's been bloated for a number of days now with no change unfortunately. Would my best course of action be epsom salts and some frozen daphnia if I can find some?? Any insight is welcomed.
Issue 2: new aquabid halfmoon. This guy was at the bottom of the box, underneath two other fish and the heat pack as at the top. He was super cold when I got the box - they had also been in a truck all day for what was supposed to be a delivery. Well I wasn't sure he was alive on arrival, but he was. I got them home and acclimated them all the same over quite some time. I noticed he was in different positions in his bag, near verticle, tail up. I didn't think much of it other than stress and small bag. He didn't seem to have any issues. Released in the divided tank and I notice his heavy breathing doesn't subside over the next day or two. Then, he stops swimming around and struggled to reach te surface. I cupped him and floated it. Now, after two days he's still breathing very heavy and I'm seeing some pineconing of his scales. I'm not sure what to think other than dropsy. I'm concerned as to my other fish now since they share the same water. Is there anything I can do for pineconing? I'm going to take my other one out tomorrow and keep him quarantined as a safety precaution.
I'll add more tomorrow if needed! If someone can give me maybe some insight as to a course of action that would be great.
Fingers crossed for my boys.