Help, please!

[Catlas Se7en]

I came home from school and my Teugelsi was acting weird. Now he cant swim properly, is floating vertically, and is laying on the bottom of my quarantine I put him in. What do I do!?

 

[tlindsey]

I came home from school and my Teugelsi was acting weird. Now he cant swim properly, is floating vertically, and is laying on the bottom of my quarantine I put him in. What do I do!?

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Make sure he can get air that's very important.

 

[Catlas Se7en]

He passed away

 

[kno4te]

Keep the water level low so the fish can right itself and stay on it’s belly. Provide clean water and reduce stress. Would hold on feeding. Maybe trauma the way it’s floating. Gotta wait and watch it’s behavior. Can add some Epsom salt at 1 tbsp per 5g.

Also agree with tlindsey .

 

[kno4te]

He passed away

Oh man. So sorry!

 

[tlindsey]

He passed away

Sorry to hear this.

 

[Catlas Se7en]

Oh man. So sorry!

Sorry to hear this.

He went from fine to dead in 4 hours. What happened? Water parameters were 0, 0, and less than .5 in order of ammonia, nitrite, nitrite

 

[tlindsey]

Like stated earlier trauma probably was what caused the poly's death.

 

[Catlas Se7en]

I dont know what the trauma would be. He wasnt picked on, always ate, and chilled in his hide

 

[Steve_C]

So sorry to hear he is gone

Any other info you can give so everyone can tryin help you find out what might have happened? When was your last WC? Not sure of your location but here in Michigan when the weather turns real cold they treat the water a bit harder at the plant so I always have to cut back on the size of my WC's in winter so I don't get such parameter changes (Ph and such). I just lost a 5" BGK last week 1 hour after doing a 75% WC because of that very reason.

Is there anything small in the tank he maybe could have ingested? How old/big was he and how long did you have him? Might have just had some issue you didn't even know about when you got him perhaps.