Sick flower horn :(

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bluemoon

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Hi,
My flower horn is sick and I like you to help me understand what wrong with him.

He is eating only food that sinking. He won't eat food that floats, probably because its hard to him to swim up.. He sits at the bottom of the Aquarium all day, and occasionally he goes to short swimming and then go back to the bottom.
His colors became darker. And his head has shrunk.
And he look sad :/
Any one have an idea what should I do?

This is How he look today:

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This is a photo from better days:

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Did you add anything new to the tank like decorations or substrate? Did you test your water if so what are the parameters? How long has this tank been up and running? when is the last time you did a water change? I would test the water and do a 50% water change to start off.
 
Outlaw22 said:
Did you add anything new to the tank like decorations or substrate? Did you test your water if so what are the parameters? How long has this tank been up and running? when is the last time you did a water change? I would test the water and do a 50% water change to start off.
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I have him just a few days and he was sick before he arrive to me.
My water parameter is good and my tank is running 2 years.
I just finish a 60% water change.
It the tank I have one more flower (Behind a partition) and he is felling great.
It's look like flotation problem.. But I'm not sure what to do.


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bluemoon said:
I have him just a few days and he was sick before he arrive to me.
My water parameter is good and my tank is running 2 years.
I just finish a 60% water change.
It the tank I have one more flower (Behind a partition) and he is felling great.
It's look like flotation problem.. But I'm not sure what to do.


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When it swims does it swim side ways? Do you see anything on the fish like ich (white dots) or anything. If not It might be stressed.
 
You have to state water parameters in numbers, just to say "good" is no help. Give us Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, Ph hardness if available and temperature. See if it will eat a couple of skinned peas and do not feed anything else. If you knew the fish was sick you should have never accepeted it and put it in with your healthy stock. New fish should be quarenteined for a bout 3 weeks before being introduced to the main tank. How long have you had this fish?
 
Aquanero said:
You have to state water parameters in numbers, just to say "good" is no help. Give us Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, Ph hardness if available and temperature. See if it will eat a couple of skinned peas and do not feed anything else. If you knew the fish was sick you should have never accepeted it and put it in with your healthy stock. New fish should be quarenteined for a bout 3 weeks before being introduced to the main tank. How long have you had this fish?
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Aquanero said:
You have to state water parameters in numbers, just to say "good" is no help. Give us Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, Ph hardness if available and temperature. See if it will eat a couple of skinned peas and do not feed anything else. If you knew the fish was sick you should have never accepeted it and put it in with your healthy stock. New fish should be quarenteined for a bout 3 weeks before being introduced to the main tank. How long have you had this fish?
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I bought 2 flowers from the same person. I take out all the fishes that where in the tank ant put the flowers alone with partition between them.
The flowers were together before so it's not a problem that they are together now and this way I don't need to isolate the fish.

I said that my parameters are good because the fish were sick before I got him. This current tank running for 2 year with 0 problems.
I got them yesterday exactly and one of them if fine and the other one sick.
If you still want my parameters I can check them but it's not important because it arrive to me sick.

Its look like it trying to swim sometimes but it is difficult for him.
The swimming takes only 1-3 sec' and he back to the bottom...



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bluemoon said:
It doesn't swim side ways but it swim for only 2-3 sec a little bit up and falling down slowly to the bottom.
He don't have any white dots.



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If you cant see anything on the fish then I don't know might be internal. Try posting more pics maybe up close then some other folks can try and help. If you list the parameters it would help and folks would have more of an idea what might be going on.
 
Yes I would still like to see your water perameters. Your water perameters are important to make sure we recomend the corect medacation. Not only do you need the correct medication for the problem some medications can be inaffective at best and become leathal at worst if used incorrectly or in the wrong water chemistry. So in that respect it is important. This could be a swim bladder issue, costapation, a bacterial infection, internal parasites an acccalmation issue etc. It's diffacult to say for sure so we will start simple, see what happens and take it from there.
 
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