Hello everyone,
The last 4 months I purchased my 2 new fish,( 1 fire eel and 1 black ghost knife fish) in my fresh water tank. Let me say that those fish are the only ones on my fully cycled tank at the moment and I have plans to move them to a lot bigger tank in the coming months. The measurements of water in my tank are ph 7.5, nitrite=0, ammonia=0, temperature 26c.
Now let me talk about my fire eels problem. While the knife fish eats everything (krill, bloodwarms, freezed shrimps) my fire eel after loads of tries of different frozen shrimps we managed to actually find the ones he likes…he was never the easiest to eat and the last month the strange acting started…the last 3 weeks he stopped eating. He started to swim in weird manner doing circles around himself in order to swim…then he would stay upside down in the bottom of the tank. The second week you could see him try to swim again but whenever he tried, it was like his body was moving properly but his head was like hanging and was dragged along( he could not keep his body in a straight line….) this week he is floating on the top of the tank and this seems to happen because his belly seems to have gathered some air preventing him to be able to swim to the bottom of the tank. I should say that the last 5 days I cured the tank with API General Cure powder & API Furan 2 powder & I have also moved him on 30 litre shrimp tank that I also have in order to be more calm in case the knife fish wanted to bother him…I have also seen some small white spots like 3 to 5 on him but cannot understand if he was bitten by the BG while he was in the first tank or it is something else…
I will provide you with some pictures of him…hope someone of you can understand what is happening and help me..
Thank you all for your time trying to understand my problem and hope to see your answers...
The last 4 months I purchased my 2 new fish,( 1 fire eel and 1 black ghost knife fish) in my fresh water tank. Let me say that those fish are the only ones on my fully cycled tank at the moment and I have plans to move them to a lot bigger tank in the coming months. The measurements of water in my tank are ph 7.5, nitrite=0, ammonia=0, temperature 26c.
Now let me talk about my fire eels problem. While the knife fish eats everything (krill, bloodwarms, freezed shrimps) my fire eel after loads of tries of different frozen shrimps we managed to actually find the ones he likes…he was never the easiest to eat and the last month the strange acting started…the last 3 weeks he stopped eating. He started to swim in weird manner doing circles around himself in order to swim…then he would stay upside down in the bottom of the tank. The second week you could see him try to swim again but whenever he tried, it was like his body was moving properly but his head was like hanging and was dragged along( he could not keep his body in a straight line….) this week he is floating on the top of the tank and this seems to happen because his belly seems to have gathered some air preventing him to be able to swim to the bottom of the tank. I should say that the last 5 days I cured the tank with API General Cure powder & API Furan 2 powder & I have also moved him on 30 litre shrimp tank that I also have in order to be more calm in case the knife fish wanted to bother him…I have also seen some small white spots like 3 to 5 on him but cannot understand if he was bitten by the BG while he was in the first tank or it is something else…
I will provide you with some pictures of him…hope someone of you can understand what is happening and help me..
Thank you all for your time trying to understand my problem and hope to see your answers...