What's wrong with my NTT?

Mount_Prion

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I'll preface this, as I frequently do, by saying I'm no expert.

But it looks to me like it's partially paralyzed or something. Like maybe it suffered a spinal or head injury, and simply can't move the way it used to. It sort of swims like a person who's had a stroke.

Again, I can't be sure, but it looks like spinal/nervous damage to me.
 

SePPii

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It just randomly started this about 2 hours ago for no reason and hasn't stopped.


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SePPii

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Agree. He's still alive and he goes normal for a while and swims and eats fine then randomly out of no where loses balance and just does somersaults I don't get it?


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krichardson

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It could be a swim bladder injury or infection.
 

rdhfreethought

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^ this.
I am only a human doc, and not a vet. But to swim like that you need a loss of orientation. Either at the source (balance/input, swim bladder etc) the pathway (nerves/infection/injury), or the controller (brain/infection/injury). In humans a simple virus can cause it, and that can be temporary. Or, cancer. A course of antibiotics might not hurt, I would definitely move him to the sick tank. At the minimum, the other fish might take the opportunity to beat him up.
 

Carpsalmon

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Hopefully this is not the case: I had a few ntts thru the years do this, nothing helped eventually they get malnourished from the inability to eat. Then the slowly die. Hopefully yours pulls thru.... Mine didn't.


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pbass510

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at this stage its SDS (Sudden Death Syndrome) happens to ntt`s and I hate it because this is how mines died randomly.
 

SePPii

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Well he's still alive gonna try to feed again tonight. Water is pristine n no other fish is picking on him added aquarium salt. Right now he's swimming fine


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