I noticed one of my loaches had a zigzag in his spine today, but when I went to get my camera he swam off and was hiding somewhere by the time I got back. I had to run to class so I don't have any pictures yet, but I'll try to get some by this afternoon. I'm pretty sure bent spine means stroke though, right? I know its not treatable, but is there something I can do to help him out? Or is there something I need to do to prevent anyone else in the tank from having a stroke?
Stroke?
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Now one of my neon tetras is starting to look very bloated. Is this related to the "bent" loach?
http://www.fishdeals.com/fish_diseases/vitamin_deficiencies/
Could this be what's wrong?
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Interesting. Neither have any value for calcium, and only the pellets have vitamin C, which is 400 mg. I'm not sure how mig fish need a say or whatever though.
To be completely honest o probably haven't been feeding my dish as much as I should over the past two weeks because I've been so busy, and looking back there's been quite a few says on a row they havent gotten any food. That makesw think it could be malnutrition, but shouldnt the loaches have been the best off since they can eat snails?
Ruling everything else out and I'd this is TB, what do I need to do? Some places online say I should go ahead and euthanize the tank, bleach everything and start over, but some places say it's treatable with strong antibiotics if the fish aren't showing signs yet. What singly guys think?
Also, I've had two platies did recently, but I'd just attributes it to old age since I'd had them for a long time. One of them was the one with red colored fins, and that's always worried me a little bit. Months ago I also had a platt die who had become very thin and also had developed red fins. I had a guppy die with ragged fins, but I blames that on my ghost shrimp. Could these all have been TB deaths and I just didn't realiE or because there were no bent spines?
I hope all that made sense. I'm posting from my phone and sometimes words get misspelled and I don't catch them, so feel free to ask for clarification if something seems like gibberish.
To be completely honest o probably haven't been feeding my dish as much as I should over the past two weeks because I've been so busy, and looking back there's been quite a few says on a row they havent gotten any food. That makesw think it could be malnutrition, but shouldnt the loaches have been the best off since they can eat snails?
Ruling everything else out and I'd this is TB, what do I need to do? Some places online say I should go ahead and euthanize the tank, bleach everything and start over, but some places say it's treatable with strong antibiotics if the fish aren't showing signs yet. What singly guys think?
Also, I've had two platies did recently, but I'd just attributes it to old age since I'd had them for a long time. One of them was the one with red colored fins, and that's always worried me a little bit. Months ago I also had a platt die who had become very thin and also had developed red fins. I had a guppy die with ragged fins, but I blames that on my ghost shrimp. Could these all have been TB deaths and I just didn't realiE or because there were no bent spines?
I hope all that made sense. I'm posting from my phone and sometimes words get misspelled and I don't catch them, so feel free to ask for clarification if something seems like gibberish.
I was asking because the Internet says if it is TB I news to completely clean everything so other animals using the same rank don't get the disease. I read some article about lizards getting TB because they were kept in a tank that previously had TB infected fish in it and the tank wasn't properly disinfected.
I think my plan of action is going to be this: wait it out, if another fish dies I'll have to do a necropsy to see I'd it has spots on it's liver. It sounds like that's the only conclusive way to determine if this is TB or not. If it is, I'll have to figure out where to go from there.
I think my plan of action is going to be this: wait it out, if another fish dies I'll have to do a necropsy to see I'd it has spots on it's liver. It sounds like that's the only conclusive way to determine if this is TB or not. If it is, I'll have to figure out where to go from there.
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