My aro's tail is floating

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LeoKhomutov

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I quite sure my 24" silver is in deep trouble. He's been swimming around with his tail out of the water for over 2 weeks. I'm noticing a 1.5" long "rotting" area on the part of his back that's out of the water. Not surprisingly, he is not eating at all or just a small piece of krill or scallop once a day. His 2 polypterus tankmates are doing just fine. The aro is about 5 years old. This guy just can't seem to float horizontally. His tail always comes up and out of the water. If any one has some advice, I'd love to hear it... this guy is family:(
 
This sounds to me like fin/tail rot. I suggest doing daily waterchanges and adding salt to your tank with each waterchange. Also, what size tank is it, what is your ph, what filtration are you currently running, and what are the levels of nitrite, nitrate, and ammonia.
 
My little baby silver did the floating thing due to stress when I netted him at the petstore. when he calmed down, he floated normally again. he didn't have a disease, but I bet thats why yours is floating, the disease is stressing him out.

Good Luck and sorry this is happening!
 
I<3fish;3315260; said:
This sounds to me like fin/tail rot. I suggest doing daily waterchanges and adding salt to your tank with each waterchange. Also, what size tank is it, what is your ph, what filtration are you currently running, and what are the levels of nitrite, nitrate, and ammonia.
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The tail floating out of water and the unbalanced swimming is NOT fin rot...fin rot here seems like its caused by exposure out of water for too long, which means that adding salt will do nothing for the wound at all as its out of the water most of the time.
 
How do you treat unbalanced swimming? mine just fixed its self in a few seconds so it may not be the same thing.
 
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