I just recieved 8 Flowerhorn Red Dragon's about 1-1.5" all look good execpt one. I put him in a tank by himself. He has been their for about 6 hours and is still barley swimming. He keeps trying to go to his side but then straightens up again. do you think he will be ok? Is their anything special I should do (Temp, salt, stress reliever) Thanks in advance. T
Need advice on sick Flowerhorn
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i dont know what this could be, stress coat wouldnt do any harm just keep him in a dark room and leave him he should be fine, i dont know what it is tho.
I bought the fish online(someone here). They shipped Monday, I recieved Tuesday. To be honest they didn't look very good to start with. It don't think the bag had enough water in it? If you look at the bag in the picture you can see fish are laying on their sides when the bag isn't standing up. Ok so I recieved them, put the bag's in the tank right away for about 20min. When I released them some went straight to the bottom and the others stayed at the top corners of the tank. One by one they started to slip away. Two left, I hope they live at least I will have some thing to show for my money.
TRENT;1897973; said:
That could be part of your issue but sounds like they had a bad shipping. In the future take a container and put the fish and bag water in it then get an airline hose with a valve on it and slowly add tank water to the container for about an hour or so then net them into the tank and leave the light off and no food. Feed them the following day and should be ok.
Good luck with the ones you have left!