My Jardini is Dying!! What's Wrong!!??

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SumoNinja

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I have a 6" Jardini that was eating fine. Meal worms, shrimp and feeders.

Parameters when first saw it swimming around weird:
HP = 6.4 - 6.6
Amonia and Nitrite = 0
Nitrate = hard to tell, color was red, the color card has 40 and 80 both red and looks similar. So Nitrate was border line and I used Nitrate reducer and it went down.
Temp = 76 - 77 F

My brother called me and said it was swimming around like it was dying and he put it in my hospital tank. When I got home it was standing on it's tail in the corner, breathing normal kind of but from time to time it would curve it's body and go upside down and right side up again and on it's side and it would just keep curling it's body. No physical signs like bleeding or anything with scales or gills or eyes and things like that. :( :cry:

Tank mates seem to be fine. My tank is overstalked and I'm on the verge of thinning my tank out, just haven't had time yet.
 
if tank is overstocked, it might have nitrite/trate poisoning. Keep on doing what you are doing. Keep him in a hospital tank in the dark, with warmer water (80's), and aquarium salt. Hope he pulls through
 
What can it be? Is it just more sensitive than it's tankmates? I have a CK, 4 Silver aros, RTC, TSN, E-Cat, 4) 3" dats, 1 Ornate. They're in a 100g, I only have a canister filter. Do 50% water changes once a week and vacuum gravel 2x/week.

Or can it be something it ate, everyone else is fine that ate what it ate. Something internal or parasites??
 
yeah, your tank is badly overstocked! not only by number of fish, but the types. You have some serious waste-making machines, especially your cats! You might have insufficient biological filtration. What canister do you have? Normally this doesn't happen because of something it ate, and probably not internal parasites
 
In the hospital tank I added salt and Up'd the temp to 80-82 F

Since I first saw yesterday afternoon it has not gotten worse nor improved. Still alive this morning doing same thing. Acts like it's way drunk and high or something. Just sitting there and occasionally wiggle around
 
will be on it's side or standing on it's tail or lying on the bottom on it's side. do the symptoms tell you guys anything??
 
Onion01;1451988; said:
yeah, your tank is badly overstocked! not only by number of fish, but the types. You have some serious waste-making machines, especially your cats! You might have insufficient biological filtration. What canister do you have? Normally this doesn't happen because of something it ate, and probably not internal parasites
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Is it the most sensitive in the tank? Everyone else is fine. And I will be thinning out the tank real soon. Will be posting on classified soon
 
E-cat hides all day and only comes out to feed. And if it did shock, howcome no one else is affected?
 
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