tiger muskie with gill curl

[Tokis-Phoenix]

What are the measurements (length,width, height) of the tank you are keeping this fish in and how large/long is the fish currently? What other fish are you keeping with the fish too and what do you feed the fish and how much/often on average?

How often do you do a water change on the tank and how much do you take out on average? Do you use dechlorinator and how exactly do you go about cleaning the filtration in the tank and how often?

You say the gill curl became apparent after a large water change, how large was this water change exactly (50%, 60%, 70% , 80% or more etc) and how did you go about doing it exactly?
When the fish breathed really fast, this was probably in a reaction to a mini-cycle you had caused the tank to go through- did you test the water quality for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and ph at the time at all this happened? Have you tested the tank recently for these stats, and if so, what are the exact results you got back from the tests?



Info like this will help a great deal in helping prevent this happening again and to also help understand what exactly happened to the fish and to decide what course of action is best to take to help improve the fish's condition now etc "nods" .

 

[meepster]

if the fish isn't having breathing or swimmin problems, I'd say leave it alone.

 

[teleost]

I'm a bit suspicious that a water change caused this condition. Hatchery fish are notorious for birth defects. Are you sure this fish didn't come in this way?????

 

[Scorponok]

I am 100% positive it didn't come in this way. One time after a water change it was breathing so fast I thought it wasn't going to make it. This is the aftermath. The rest was breathing fast too but not as fast.

The question now is what should I do? Should I cut the cover, but need to know how much to cut and what to cut it with. And what other tools I need and where to get them. This guy flapping around and slippery when I took the pic so either I sedate it or have a helper to constrain it.

Or, do nothing. The concern here is will this affect its breathing or cause harm as it gets bigger, and kill it eventually.

As you can tell by now, I really care about this guy.

 

[teleost]

To be honest, I've never had to deal with gill curl. I've done some reading but I'm sure you have as well. You might get a better response if you post in the fish disease and health forum. I don't suspect native gill curl is any different than tropical gill curl.