Dieing Glowlight ?

[depthC]

I have a glowlight that is totally messed up. It swims unside down, vertical and lays on the bottom of the tank upside down. I know he is dieing and his fins look pretty bad as i saw the other fish nipping him. Hes been hanging alive for almost 2 days now and I just want to know what this is and why? The tank is healthy and this is one of the glowlights i had the longest so could it just be from old age or does he have something wrong? Thanks.

- depthC

 

[geKo]

Originally posted by depthC
I have a glowlight that is totally messed up. It swims unside down, vertical and lays on the bottom of the tank upside down. I know he is dieing and his fins look pretty bad as i saw the other fish nipping him. Hes been hanging alive for almost 2 days now and I just want to know what this is and why? The tank is healthy and this is one of the glowlights i had the longest so could it just be from old age or does he have something wrong? Thanks.

- depthC

You said it yourself. The other fish nipping at him are killing him. What fish are they? posibly sapae tetras mabys?

Take him out and put him in a tank by himself so he can heal. One of my lemmon tetras was attacked by a sapea tetra and his fins were falling out. I removed the fin nipping fish and within a week his fins were grown back and he is as healthy as ever!

 

[depthC]

They are only nippin at him because he is defensless and is out of the normal i guess. Bloodfins and glowlights but they arnt constantly nipping at him just every once in a while when he swims infront of them.
Also i dont really plan to incubate him because im certain there must be something wrong internally and not a disease. So hes pretty much presumed dead to me but i dont know why he is swimming all messed up.

- depthC

 

[adamj]

swim bladder infection maybe?

 

[Roop]

i've heard cucumber is good for that. i had a sick molly that was swimming all messed up. i gave her melafix and cucumber. now she's days away from having babies. she should of had babies a month ago but that's when she was sick and miscariaged

 

[depthC]

Yeah that is probably it , swim bladder infection.
Roop how would cucumber and malafix help your molly? My glowlight doesnt eat and im pretty sure hes a gone-er. I can home today and hes still gulping air laying on the bottom of the tank.

- depthC