Sick Sturgeon

[synodontisjack]

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...

All you can do is hope for the best, its been an awful week for me as well on top of the sturgeon my mbu died i never lose fish as well.

 

[Moontanman]

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.

I hate to say this but if your water is really that cold it just might be too cold. It is certainly too cold for a pleco, I'm not sure but in the wild a sturgeon experiencing very cold water might just become still and not swim much. I know catfish often do. I wouldn't allow my captive fish to drop much below 55 or so. I know they experience colder than this in the wild but they also have other options as to where they go and how they react to the cold they do not have in captivity.

 

[blurock]

Alrighty, I'll throw a heater in there and see what happens...

 

[troutking]

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