Something is seriously wrong here...

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
well let us now how she looks in the morning. Where are you putting your two new angels?
 
I had to put them in the tank with the other angels. I need more tanks! The 10 has 70 baby third generation guppies... the 20 has the angels and is being medicated... and the 30.. well. It has the nice fish in it. I'd rather risk the angels with Walmart fish than let them harm my pretty ropes :) Good news is - talked honey into a 55 when we move. 3 weeks!
(Now I just have to talk him into letting me keep the 30 for my angels... original agreement was lose the 10, 20 and 30 to get the 55... now I'm bargaining for getting the 55 for the ropes and knives, keeping the 30 for my angels, and the 10 as a hospital tank... I'm going to have to bat my eyelashes REALLY HARD and look REALLY CUTE when I beg. He already is saying NO NEW FISH!)
 
I need help... she's dying. On her side in the nursery gasping for air. She isn't going to make it. How can I... um.. help the process along in a humane way?
 
Okay... thanks. This is gonna suck.

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Thank you all for your help. Maybe next time (if there is one, knock on wood) I'll get more of a head start on the problem.
 
I'm not giving up yet. She's trying to get back off her side - I'm going to get bags of ice and put them next to the nursery and cool the water down. Angels are much more calm at cooler temps and can handle it down to 65 - then they become slightly lethargic. Seeing as how she just got the melafix, her body could be having a slight reaction to that. If I cool her water, her blood pressure will drop and she'll relax. Let the medicine do something for her now that it's shocked her.

**runs off for fishy emergency care**
 
Last reply for a while... I think I have good news! I spent two hours icing her like she was iced tea - little zip*loc bags with ice floating in the nursery with her. She got off the bottom of the nursery and propped herself up on her fins for awhile. I changed the bags of ice as soon as they melted completely. As of right now, just the bottom tip of her fins are dragging the bottom, and she has a little bit of movement in her lower lip. The best thing is... I had to turn on the light to be sure... the redness in the wound is gone. It doesn't look like it should be bleeding anymore. I had no idea Melafix would work that quickly. The flesh is still hanging a bit, but she seems much more calm. I'll dose her in Melafix one more time later on today, but as for now, my ice bin in the freezer is empty, and I'm going to bed. Its 7 in the morning - WAY past my bed time. Hopefully she'll pull through this morning.
 
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