i had my baby redtail for about a month an a half 2 months and i just moved into a new house so i had to move him from my parents house to a new tank he was in a tank with a tsn an a green phantom pleco who are doing great but for some reason i noticed the red tail bein a little funny yesterday and when i got home from work today he was floatin at the top of the tank but not dead i touched him and he started to swim again within seconds he stoped an started floatin again i moved him into a 10 gallon quarantine and hes swims an then floats also i cant get him to eat anything any ideas or am i out a red tail please help i dont want to loose this guy
baby red tail acting funny! what to do?
- Thread starter PieTangle
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There's a chance (unless you took precautions, I'm not sure) that your tank is cycling again. What are your water params? Has he eaten/acted normal at all since the move? Is your quarantine cycled? What was his last meal (could it have introduced some type of parasite or possibly have been bad fish, if it was frozen)? There's a lot of missing info here, and I think you'd be able to get more help if you included all of the water parameters and a little more detailed info. I hope this guy pulls through.
Can you give us an update on this guy? Do you have any more info that could help us determine what's going on here? If you don't have test kits, your LFS will usually test water for free. Please let us know!