I left for 3 days on vacation and returned to my favorite Green terror dull in color, swimming abnormally, and looked very swollen. I mad a few changes to the tank before i left. First off i of course broke an eheim 2217, so the tank only had one running since Friday morning. Second, I added a 6" EBJD and mini water lettuce, only enough to cover about 1/3 of the tanks surface. Lastly, I left some of the ceramic rings from my filter hanging in the tank. I attached pictures showing his gill area, stomach, and swimming movement. The nuchal hump has always been there but did seem larger when i came back home.
All other fish are doing fine and are still very healthy. Almost all tankmates are smaller in size, the tankmate similar in size is a 9" GT (the sick one is around 11"). The only thing i can think of that caused the random illness is he may have been eating the mini water lettuce and got extremely constipated.
If anyone has any idea what could be causing this and how to treat it please let me know. Any input helps, I dont think he will make it until morning so I'd like to consider all input by tonight.
All other fish are doing fine and are still very healthy. Almost all tankmates are smaller in size, the tankmate similar in size is a 9" GT (the sick one is around 11"). The only thing i can think of that caused the random illness is he may have been eating the mini water lettuce and got extremely constipated.
If anyone has any idea what could be causing this and how to treat it please let me know. Any input helps, I dont think he will make it until morning so I'd like to consider all input by tonight.
