Please help!!came home ..and fish is bearly alive!!

[Rayshot1]

So i came home from work and my mono is bearly alive upside down..but with no marks aside from a bit from his lip..i had put him in yesterday with my Albino tiger Oscar and all looked fine after the initial greeting..so i moved him back to his 40g holding tank(the mono) and i put in an airstone raised the temp and added aquarium salt..anything else i can do to help out my buddy?!!

 

[Kanes_Natives1]

you can gently move him back and fourth with you hand in the tank keeping straight, as it helps the oxygen flow easier through his gills...... hope he pulls throught mate, there a great fish, i keep alot of aussie natives and the mono sebae's are one of my faves.

 

[Rayshot1]

Bump!

 

[Rayshot1]

thanks..thats actually what i was doing! i was holding him gently upright with the air stone bubbles running over his gills..he made it thru the night..but now i have to go to work..hope he holds out while im gone..temp to 83 and ill be back..

 

[Jc1119]

thanks..thats actually what i was doing! i was holding him gently upright with the air stone bubbles running over his gills..he made it thru the night..but now i have to go to work..hope he holds out while im gone..temp to 83 and ill be back..

Keep doing what you're doing. The less stress the better. The bite on the lip is probably from liplocking your Oscar.

 

[DCOWBOYS]

How did your fish make out??

 

[Kyel]

I thought that mono's were brackish fish

 

[aidenb]

They are, unless you're referring to the cichla mono. If it is the brackish mono, lack of marine salt could explain why it is dying with no apparent marks.

 

[bomber]

Hoping your mono pulls through brother. GL.

 

[Juxtaroberto]

I'm also confused if this is Cichla monoculus, or Monodactylus sebae/argenteus.

If it's the former, I would have thought it could hold its own against an Oscar.

If it's the latter, then the stress of being in freshwater, plus the incident with the Oscar, was probably too much. Monos need brackish while young and marine as adults. Yes, people keep them in fresh, but it's really not a good idea. You really have no way of knowing what kind of long term effects there will be, or even what physical discomforts the fish is going through.

Good luck.