Pls help my ST!!

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islander671

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Came home to find my ST laying on his side tonight. Immediatly turned up the heat, dosed w/ salt, and adjusted my powerheads and added additonal airstones to help with aeration. Checked my water params. 0/0/10. which is about normal for my tanks. temp was sitting at about 82 before i raised it. Within minutes he was up and about but had that glaze in his eyes that i found common in dats that were ill. Ran to walmart to get some stresscoat since i was out. The minute i got back he was swimming in circles and then went into deep convulsions. All of a sudden his body froze and turned upside down, i thought he was done. I held him in front of a powehead for almost ten minutes as my sister added stresscoat and positioned an airstone to help stimulate water movement around him. He suddenly recovered and is swimming about normally now. His eyes look almost normal now but i have the lights dimmed so its hard t tell. What else can i do? I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THIS FISH. I want to see if i get a feeding response from him but its probaly to soon. The only things i can think of that may have caused this were a bad batch of shrimp or my drip system letting chlorine or chloramines through. No other fish showed any symptoms at all including my clown loaches which should have been the first to show signs of something wrong.
Water params are
0 amm
0 nitrites
10 nitrates
temp 82 (now probaly close to 84-84)
last feeding was this morning.

What more can i do??
 
Just a little history on the fish, he did make a long trip from KY a few days ago, but the trip went well and he acclimated fine and was eating that same day. He was on the recieving end of some aggression from a true parrot that is now separated (and for sale now..lol)

Again, what more can i do?
 
If this will help; my filtration is a 75g w/d with scrubbies for the w/d portion and ceramic rings submerged, a lifegard 300 fluidized bed filter, and 2 marineland HOB for mechanical filtration.
It is a 7x2x2 tank with a drip system dripping 1 gph 24 hours a day. I slow drip prime to combat any chlorine/chloramines that may be getting by the inline filters. I also do a gravel vac 1 a week.
Stock is 4x pbass 7 -10", 3x Clown loaches 6-7", 1 9" Florida gar, 1x 13" thinbar, 1x 8" Clown Knife, 1x 12" Poly, and a 5" climbing perch.
water parameters are consitent at 0/0/10.

I wont be able to sleep tonight watching this fish..lol
 
ST was doing good from when i first revived him at about 11pm. He was active and swimming around until about 315am. He started swimming in circles again, then back to his convulsions. Seemed more extreme this time and ended up again belly up. I repeated the same process, with him being held at a powerhead for several minutes. And again he is up and about. Could this be some sort of respritory problem?
Could his constant swimming be him trying to stimulate his gill movement?
Im fairly confident that it is not the water, so i dont want to do a water change as it may cause him to go into shock.
more watching for now.
 
you have done everything i would have.... just gotta wait it out :( hope it makes it...
 
Nic;1987929; said:
you have done everything i would have.... just gotta wait it out :( hope it makes it...
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thanks man. its been a few hours since the last incident and he seems OK. A lot calmer. With a much more natural swimming pattern. I think ill feel better when i get a feeding response out of him.
 
Sorry to hear it.. hope he pulls through..
 
Fish Room Plus;1988135; said:
Sounds like a parasite problem. I would do a 30% water change, replace salt and dose with Prozi
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:iagree:
 
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