
Vertigo and winds up back at the surface in the corner of the tank. She will eat if I put food up to her mouth. She is on her side at the surface and is quite Was still eating, playing and coming up for rubs. Right, if she stopped swimming her tail end would drop towards the bottom. Half she didn’t seem quite like her normal self - her balance wasn’t quite After a few minutes she revived (she was definitely notĪsleep), produced a huge amount of poop and swam off.

Her on the bottom of her tank, motionless, lacking her normal bright colours,Īnd appeared dead.

She has been a very healthy fish Up until 2 weeks ago when we found I have in my care, a 16 inch, approximately 8 year old female Flowerhorn/ redĭevil cross. Any help you can offer is much greatly appreciated.įlowerhorn/Red Devil Cross with swim bladder disorder symptoms The first general cure treatment yesterday as it seems that it can be intestinal I almost forgot, I added 1 tablespoon per each 10gal of Epsom salts and I did Right now he is 6” and he is in a 20gal tank but I am setting up a 75gal tankįor him and I’m just waiting for the canister filter to be delivered. The only thing different lately was that he ate a guppy I have well water and I treat it with prime The water parameters are ph 7.8, ammonia 0, nitritesĠ, nitrates 20, hard water 200ppm.
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I feed him twice a day with cz help in the morning and xo ocean free starry at I also noticed that the area around his anus is reddish and it seems like he hasīeen rubbing it against decorations (I can see a little tissue damage to the I had changed 75% of his water on 11/25 and when I noticed the problem yesterday Yesterday my Flowerhorn stopped eating and I noticed his kok was becoming soft Hello crew and thank for any help you can offer me.( I’d really appreciate any help that you can give.įlowerhorn not eating and kok is deflating Idea on the next step for me to take? Blossom means a lot to me and my Had to order the API general cure from the U.S.) Please have you any She is in a 55g tank, I have tested the water and the readings are allĪs we live in the U.K, I am limited on what medication can be used (I Maybe I didn’t rinse them well enough and introduced parasites too. My main thinking is that although I rinsed the water lettuces prior toĪdding them to the tank, if I inadvertently missed a snail on them then Had also eaten all of the roots of the water lettuce plants (could these Hadn’t noticed the snails before as maybe she had been eating them. Months ago (I’ve since removed the water lettuce.) I suspect that I I’m assuming theyĬame in with some water lettuce plants that I added to the tank approx 2 I have noticed lots of very tiny snails in her tank.
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The aquatic shop staff and I are now out of ideas on how to help

Thing is, she’s stopped eating so I’m not sure how successful this willīe. The last sachet of API general cure, garlic juice, her fish pellets and I am going to make a medicated food using She has white stringy feces (indicating an internal parasite?) but none (today is the last day of treatment) but I can see no improvement. My filter and I am currently dosing the tank with API general cure (neither of which have worked.) I have removed the carbon from Tried ParaGuard for 2 weeks, which I removed with water changes andĬarbon. With the help and advice of my local aquatic shop, I treated her withĪquarium salts for 2 weeks which I removed with water changes and then I Side of her abdomen is now swelling (the swelling appears to be internalĪnd she is not displaying any external signs of illness.) The swelling has since got larger and the other

I am really hoping that you can help me we’re all out of ideas.Īpprox six weeks ago I noticed a small swelling on the side of myįlowerhorns abdomen. & Flowerhorns, Flowerhorn Identification, Flowerhorn Behavior, Flowerhorn Compatibility, Flowerhorn Selection, Flowerhorn Systems, Flowerhorn Feeding, Flowerhorn Reproduction, Cichlids, DwarfĪngelfishes, Discus, Chromides, Neotropical Cichlids, Related Articles: Flowerhorns by Ong, Blood Parrots & FlowerhornĬichlids: maintenance and healthcare of two popular hybridįlowerhorn Disease 3, Flowerhorn Disease 4,įAQs on Flowerhorn Cichlid Disease by Category:
