Just got two baby sturgeons yesturday, sterlet and diamond. Put them both in a control bucket. Ph is around 7, water temp is room temperature, no ammonia nor nitrates. Set them in and both looked fine yesturday. Today the sterlet is having problems swimming, spiraling, always upfloat near the surface. Cant seem to swim down or straight. The diamond is just fine. Need help and thanks for your time.
Baby sturgeon needs help!
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Yes, an airstone airation. The sturgeon is upside down at the moment. I was wondering if it might have swallowed one of the air bubbles coming out of the airstone.
Water does not remain the same when you leave it for a few days unless it was sterile, you hermetically sealed it, and kept it at room temperature in a dark environment. Without chlorine, bacteria begins to flourish. That's if you add nothing to the water.
Instead, you added live fish.
How exactly can the water be exactly the same after you added fish? Do you think the fish stopped excreting waste?
I would check the water.
I should have gave more info. There both 2inch sturgeons in a 5 gal bucket. Bucket was preset 4 days before fish arrival. Only water, aqurium salt, ph stabilizer, and water purifier ever touched it. Fish were in bucket only for one day so far.
It does not make much difference what you did to prepare the water in that bucket prior to putting the fish in it,it's only five gallons of water and those two fish,in their constant movement and waste production will likely cause ammonia to form.They are already stressed from transfer and being in the confines of a bucket doesn't help matters.You need good filtration for starters and then move them to better quarters.....it sounds like it is too late for one of them.