HELP FISH 911 (anyone SW or FW)(update:she's gone)

[zilla870]

my female rams is laying on her side but is breathing fine or a little hard. what can i do water 0nh4 0no2 5no3. what could be wrong. do rams ever sleep like this?

HELP PLEASE HELP!!!!!

 

[zilla870]

HELP

 

[zilla870]

Please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fluff]

Sorry, I have no idea what could be wrong. How are your other fish? Is she swimming around at all? Any marks on her? Is the male picking? Maybe she is stressed. :?

 

[zilla870]

all other fish are fine. no marks. and she is gone.

 

[Fluff]

Sorry. How long have you had her? I've read lots about how rams are not hearty and hard to get acclimated. Perhaps it was just a bad fish. Sometimes there is no answer. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Lepomis]

Probably stress got to her with all the changes. Any other minor problems just would have been become nails in the coffin. You just recently got her if I remember correctly. Unfortunately most fish don't recover once you see these type symptoms from my experience or they seem to get better only to die within a few weeks.

 

[mattrox]

As hard as it is to say Lepomis is quite right athat it is rare for them to recover. Sometimes I have to take fish in this condition out of the tank incase it is disease, often I have to humanely put them down. It is a hard decision to make, but I feel I have to be fair to the other fish. It could be due to some disease that I can't diagnose and it is better to get them out of the tank.

Sometimes weak specimens succumb to stress very easily.