Anything new with your rope fish? My ornate still is acting like your rope. Thought he was getting better but now my ornate is swimming upside down at times...
New ropefish can't swim upright - rolling
- Thread starter jschall
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^ same happened to one i had bought awhile back, he didnt make itjstavis;3968795; said:
i hope you have better luck than i didNo update. Still alive, same problem.
Might sound kind of morbid, but I'm hoping it'll either get better or die in the next couple days. Partly because it's obviously having a hard time, and partly because if it holds on for more than 3 days, I don't get a free replacement =/
This time I picked up the fish before the LFS owner had even taken them out of his supplier's bags. Next time I will have my LFS owner release the fish into his tanks and reserve them for me for a week.
At least all the congo tetras I bought at the same time are doing great. They were each almost as expensive as the ropefish.
Might sound kind of morbid, but I'm hoping it'll either get better or die in the next couple days. Partly because it's obviously having a hard time, and partly because if it holds on for more than 3 days, I don't get a free replacement =/
This time I picked up the fish before the LFS owner had even taken them out of his supplier's bags. Next time I will have my LFS owner release the fish into his tanks and reserve them for me for a week.
At least all the congo tetras I bought at the same time are doing great. They were each almost as expensive as the ropefish.
jschall;3971688; said:
that sucks
well ill be in your same position any time soon, My $40 ornate is hardly moving and rolling on his back. Wish i just knew what had went wrong.jschall;3972053; said:
This is so weird, Ive never heard of it other then this thread. Hopefully its ok with your other one.
D12DetroitD12;3972063; said:
I think they're probably just stressed about being shipped.
They were in a pretty small bag for their size.
could you post some pics of your tank, it sounds really serious there, perhaps its best to redo the tank from scratch. Did you quarantine that bichirs after you bought it?. I hate losing bichirs, and it happened to me before, and it was caused by the chlorine in the water. I lost three bichirs before and luckily I was able to save the rest. As for immediate treatment I separated those bichirs into other tank, using stock water and adequate filtration, and enough amount of salt to treat unknown infections and bacteria. That was all I did, and my bichirs live happily till now, but dunno if they happy to see me.
