Injured tiger barb

[lostnconfused]

I have a tiger barb that got stuck to the filter (came home and found him this way) My husband got him off of the filter, but now he is kinda bent and "floating" sideways... he's really not swimming, every now and then he'll use his fins, but he just kinda floats up and down the tank. What should I do? I dont know if he may just be recovering and I should just leave him alone, or what? help!

 

[S-kate]

Do you have a hospital tank to put him in? Metaflax might help.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

What kind of filter, and how long have you had the tiger barb? If it's a normal HOB filter, I would suspect that the barb had something else wrong first... even bettas can pull themselves off regular HOB filters, and tiger barbs are much faster and stronger. I would seperate him if you can, if nothing else he'll probably get pestered by any other tiger barbs if he's weak.

 

[lostnconfused]

I just got him yesterday. I think it might have been something else also.. because when I put them in yesterday, there was one that was off colored (light green and red) eventually he got his color back. I dont know if thats a sign of sickness or stress, or whatever...

 

[jasnfeller]

Bring him back to the LFS they'll give you a new one if you bought him just a couple days ago....probably sick and ready to die anyway

 

[balafreak]

well i wish you best of luck and your fish,thats happened to me to.it turned out that the fish had a disease witch icant spell but it was a long name like sypemtoniaoses or something.