Sick Sturgeon

[blurock]

Alright, after the bout with the pleco dieing, and ammonia spike, and everything, I have my tank back to neutral goodness. Everyone in the tank has been happy and active and eating, until now, when I thought my perch had eaten my sterlet today.
I went probing around the tank, to find it not eaten, but hidden in some fake plants and driftwood pale and barely moving...
It's not really eating, and unactive. I don't know what brought this about... any ideas? Anyway i can help it?
I can set up a hospital tank if that would be a good idea... don't want to stress it anymore than it has to be though... All I've ever been able to get it to eat has been bloodworms and it ate some today, but maybe only like 3 or 4... There are two airpumps in the tank, so it has plenty of oxygen.

 

[blurock]

Alright, come on guys, I could really use some help here. I don't wanna lose my sterlet

 

[blurock]

would sticking him in a hospital tank with some current maybe help? again... some help would be nice guys

 

[synodontisjack]

what temperature is it at

 

[new2natives]

about all you can do is use some TLC
make sure your water is spotless, add some salt and some stresscoat to help him relax some ... other than that you dont want to use too many meds on sturgeon, esp if you dont know whats wrong.
i would just try to improve water conditions ... ?

 

[synodontisjack]

strangely enough i woke this morning to find a small 24" siberian floating dead it had been fine up till now i may do an autopsy, see if i can figure out the problem.

 

[new2natives]

RIP

 

[Moontanman]

Alright, after the bout with the pleco dieing, and ammonia spike, and everything, I have my tank back to neutral goodness. Everyone in the tank has been happy and active and eating, until now, when I thought my perch had eaten my sterlet today.
I went probing around the tank, to find it not eaten, but hidden in some fake plants and driftwood pale and barely moving...
It's not really eating, and unactive. I don't know what brought this about... any ideas? Anyway i can help it?
I can set up a hospital tank if that would be a good idea... don't want to stress it anymore than it has to be though... All I've ever been able to get it to eat has been bloodworms and it ate some today, but maybe only like 3 or 4... There are two airpumps in the tank, so it has plenty of oxygen.

Set up a hospital tank, lots of aeration, a couple of sponge filters for bio-filtration, about a tablespoon of marine salt mix per gallon. allow the temp to be as low as possible. Not much else can be done. sterlets like brackish water in the wild they travel to and from salt water and live their adult lives in the boundary between marine and fresh water environments. What kind of temps, pH and such is he under now?

 

[blurock]

Temp is really cold, havn't stuck the thermo in there for a bit since it got colder. The tank is in a cement basement and its cold enough i can't keep my arm in there longer than 10mins (and thats pushing it) and I can swim in the Puget Sound in winter... im no thermo wimp haha. I'm out of pH tester, though it usually sits pretty neutral... 6.5-7, and I always add salt to my tanks they all run ~1tsp per 5gals, though some end up more like ~1tbsl per 5gals.

I didn't get a chance to get to the fish room today (its several blocks away from my house) so I don't even know if hes still alive... he was trying to hang in though... ive been trying to get bloodworms in him, he'll eat one or two, but not well at all.

 

[blurock]

strangely enough i woke this morning to find a small 24" siberian floating dead it had been fine up till now i may do an autopsy, see if i can figure out the problem.

Very sorry to here that Jack, I have a sinking feeling I'm going to discover a similar scene tomorrow when I go to the fish room...
It will be a great topper to losing all my big fish out of my 300g... (15" TSN 3xOscars (one f1xlongfin) and a 7" Jag) on top of having to put my first horse down. Its been one hell of a week...