Need help with lap, swimming wierd

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I once got four free cichlids ( parachromis loisellei) of various sizes, all the fry were from the same batch. One day I notice the largest one having seizures. Its body would go stiff and it would start twitching and floating around like it was dead. A few minutes later it would be done and it was sitting on the bottom breathing heavily. I watched this behavior happen for a while and knew something was wrong so I put it down. Well as the second largest grew up, it too would have the seizures. Finally I determined it to just be a genetic defect in the fish passed on from the parents. Your lap could have something weird like that or more likely a head injury that is not quite healed up.
 
I once got four free cichlids ( parachromis loisellei) of various sizes, all the fry were from the same batch. One day I notice the largest one having seizures. Its body would go stiff and it would start twitching and floating around like it was dead. A few minutes later it would be done and it was sitting on the bottom breathing heavily. I watched this behavior happen for a while and knew something was wrong so I put it down. Well as the second largest grew up, it too would have the seizures. Finally I determined it to just be a genetic defect in the fish passed on from the parents. Your lap could have something weird like that or more likely a head injury that is not quite healed up.
Yah im thinking the same way but hopefully it pulls throught.i wish i can put him in MRI in my work, lolz
 
So when i was in the LFS getting my water check, i called my coworker and he said that the lap did jump out of his tank twice. So i think it has a head injury.

Hey man dont trust your lfs to test your water. Buy api liquid master test kit. With the amount of polys you have i wouldnt leave it up to lfs.


Allot of lfs will lie about water quality just to get customers to buy more fish.
 
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Hey man dont trust your lfs to test your water. Buy api liquid master test kit. With the amount of polys you have i wouldnt leave it up to lfs.


Allot of lfs will lie about water quality just to get customers to buy more fish.

Or they will direct you to ammonia reducing products to put in the filter and water along with all kinds of stuff. like jaws said get your own test kit. Bought online they are not badly priced.
 
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could be brain trauma from something?
 
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