My brown knife fish ( had for a month ) is lying at the bottom of my tank. It was doing perfectly fine until I came home from school today. Before I left, it was doing fine. When I look at it now, its bottom fin looks like it has been chewed off. The "bitten" part is white. The only other fish in the tank is a peacock eel and a rainbow shark. I don't know what could have caused it, but I did add some plants 2 days before this happened.Any help?
Brown Knife Fish Lying at bottom of tank
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How bigs your tank? I've heard of those rainbow sharks biting. How big is he?
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I just realised how much info I have left out, here is the rest of the info.
1. Tank Size: 100 Gallons
2. Water Parameters: Nitrate: 0. Nitrite: 0. PH: 6.0. Carbonate Hardness: 80. General Hardness: 120. The city I live in has very hard water, so I can't do much on hardness.
3. It is a freshwater tank
4. My aquarium has been set up for a year. Originally it held 1 Senegal Bichir, but my aunt killed it so I switched to the shark, eel, and knife in the last 2 months.
5. Like I stated, I have a Rainbow Shark and a Peacock Eel. The shark is fairly small, about an inch and a half. I added him the same time as my knife. The eel is probably 5-6 inches long. The eel and shark have never showed signs of aggression towards my knife. The knife itself is 5 inches long.
6. No quarintine
7. Temperature: 78
9. There are plants, recently added within the last few days.
10. No other equipment besides a filter, heater, and bubbler are used.
11. My tank does not receive sunlight and I keep the light off when I go school and when I go to bed. I leave the light on when I get home from school and leave it on for about 6 hours (for the plants).
12. Performed a water change on Sunday. I changed about 10% of the water. I vacuum the substrate.
13. I give my fish blood worms, shrimp, flakes, and the occasional algae wafer. I feed them once every three days.
14. Nothing unusual happening before the incident.
15. The only treatment I have done so far is add salt.
16. I will try to add pictures, but I will have to find my camera first.
I hope this will be enough info.
1. Tank Size: 100 Gallons
2. Water Parameters: Nitrate: 0. Nitrite: 0. PH: 6.0. Carbonate Hardness: 80. General Hardness: 120. The city I live in has very hard water, so I can't do much on hardness.
3. It is a freshwater tank
4. My aquarium has been set up for a year. Originally it held 1 Senegal Bichir, but my aunt killed it so I switched to the shark, eel, and knife in the last 2 months.
5. Like I stated, I have a Rainbow Shark and a Peacock Eel. The shark is fairly small, about an inch and a half. I added him the same time as my knife. The eel is probably 5-6 inches long. The eel and shark have never showed signs of aggression towards my knife. The knife itself is 5 inches long.
6. No quarintine
7. Temperature: 78
9. There are plants, recently added within the last few days.
10. No other equipment besides a filter, heater, and bubbler are used.
11. My tank does not receive sunlight and I keep the light off when I go school and when I go to bed. I leave the light on when I get home from school and leave it on for about 6 hours (for the plants).
12. Performed a water change on Sunday. I changed about 10% of the water. I vacuum the substrate.
13. I give my fish blood worms, shrimp, flakes, and the occasional algae wafer. I feed them once every three days.
14. Nothing unusual happening before the incident.
15. The only treatment I have done so far is add salt.
16. I will try to add pictures, but I will have to find my camera first.
I hope this will be enough info.
He has managed to drift towards a cave, I won't try to mess with him inside his cave so I can't provide any more updates, but I really need the help from you guys.
He will sometimes try to swim, but will end up on his back. He sometimes can get back up and swims for a while until he settles down and goes back on his back.
He will sometimes try to swim, but will end up on his back. He sometimes can get back up and swims for a while until he settles down and goes back on his back.