HELP URGENT!!!!!!!!

[xander]

yeah. i'm pretty unsure why the gar died too. okay the gar went upsidedown in the bag occasionally, but then i would shake it a bit and he would struggle a bit back to normal. he was in my tank for abt an hr. and all the time i had to hold him upright or he'd just flip back over. as for the broken back speculation, i'm not too sure, as the fish could move it's front and back fin, but didn't seem to have control of the fins in the middle.

haha water container? we don't seem to have any of those here. or is it just any box?

 

[KaraJo]

yeah. i'm pretty unsure why the gar died too. okay the gar went upsidedown in the bag occasionally, but then i would shake it a bit and he would struggle a bit back to normal. he was in my tank for abt an hr. and all the time i had to hold him upright or he'd just flip back over. as for the broken back speculation, i'm not too sure, as the fish could move it's front and back fin, but didn't seem to have control of the fins in the middle.

haha water container? we don't seem to have any of those here. or is it just any box?

water CONDITIONER....get some. it could mean life or death....

anyway, if it was already acting strange in the bag before even being in your tank, then I dont see how putting it into your tank caused all of this...It could have added to the stress and everything, but I think something could have happened when he fell. just my opinion. somethings are just hard to really figure out unless you were there.

 

[demjor19]

I have heard many opinions, but in my own, I believe gar are quite tough. I am still skeptic as to what the cause of death really is...As in Jordan's story, there was no telling how long that gar was out of water flopping around. It was missing most of its slim coat and was drug around by the snout by a cat...If this isnt tough and stressful on a fish, I dont know what is...As soon as this fish was put back into the tank, it slowly floated to the bottom to rest, and in about a day was close to being right back to himself with no visible problems.

How long was this gar in your tank before it actually died? was it acting weird right from the minute you put him in there, or did he seem alright, and them get progressively worse?

With the lose of its use of the back fins, can a broken back truly be ruled out as a possible cause of death? An injury such as this, mixed with the stress of being moved and placed into a different tank could all be the resulting death.

this was exactly my point for mentioning that little story.

i agree w/ you...if the fish was already losing control of its fins and its equilibrium while it was in the bag...how could it have been his water conditions that ultimately killed this fish? stress may have played an issue here, but i think it was something more that killed the fish. i guess at this point all we can do is hypothesize as to what actually killed this fish. none of us were there to see everything that happened and all of the fish's symptomes.