dragon14
Aquarium Advice Addict
Yesterday we noticed our last habrosus catfish acting odd (we have had him just under 2 months). He was swimming up to get a breath, but then would kind of "fall", floating down on his side, wiggling his tail. He did this over and over.
We decided to take him out of the tank (20g community) and put him in the 2.5g Deep Blue tank that we have, with about a 50% mix of fresh and tank water from the 20g tank, so that we could treat him and also isolate him so he wouldn't have so far to swim up for a breath and wouldn't have to be in the big tank while not feeling well. Unfortunately it was time to go to work so there was no time to medicate him yet.
When I got home from work, we mixed 1/4 of a packet of API General Cure (as close to 1/4 as I could try to get to) into a gallon of water, sucked out a bit over half of the water we had in the little tank, and then poured in the water with the medicine. In 2 more days we will do another 1/4 packet and then go from there.
The little guy seems to be doing better. I haven't seen him swimming oddly and he seems to be doing ok.
Thoughts? Any ideas? Did we do the right thing?
Thanks
We decided to take him out of the tank (20g community) and put him in the 2.5g Deep Blue tank that we have, with about a 50% mix of fresh and tank water from the 20g tank, so that we could treat him and also isolate him so he wouldn't have so far to swim up for a breath and wouldn't have to be in the big tank while not feeling well. Unfortunately it was time to go to work so there was no time to medicate him yet.
When I got home from work, we mixed 1/4 of a packet of API General Cure (as close to 1/4 as I could try to get to) into a gallon of water, sucked out a bit over half of the water we had in the little tank, and then poured in the water with the medicine. In 2 more days we will do another 1/4 packet and then go from there.
The little guy seems to be doing better. I haven't seen him swimming oddly and he seems to be doing ok.
Thoughts? Any ideas? Did we do the right thing?
Thanks