The poor thing, we've had him for a coupe of months now, one of the more interesting and fun fish i've ever seen, fantastic!
This morning my old man walked into the lounge to discover the poor guy was on the floor curled up and dry, my dad didn't think he was alive until he touched his tail and still gave us a large spring of life.
We put him back in the tank but it wasn't a pretty sight, he was curled up, darting almost as if he could get out of that position, it was quiet terrible to see him acting so strange and unable to uncurl but then suddenly he broke free!
Shortly after we saw the extent of damage, looked like his dorsal fin had been a bit damaged, he hasnt raised it like he normally does either, then behind that there is a massive drag of something (Broken fin/slime??) i didn't see it when we put him back in but when he was in the tank for 5 minutes i saw, i was thinking our main tank is in need of a clean and that he wasn't doing so well in there!
I had a second aquarium as a medicine tank (Large thing) until recently i broke it by putting it in my bath to clean and not realise the bath wasn't big enough (Curve had shifted the glass and it just gave in).
Now i have setup a clear plastic (Decent sized imo) properly cleaned container with my first fish pump (An apserlute oxygen monster and great at filtering too!)
I've relocated the loach to the tank where he is steadily breathing (Wohooo! not stressed *i hope*) and he is sat quietly i hope recovering! he is definately not as active as usual and his barbs aren't spaced open like usual, i haven't fed him yet, apparently he was fed this morning but i will do soon! It is new water though, i did a change on the main tank 60% new not long ago so he adapted to the clean water no problem at all!
Also the main tank has an ich issue, and i'm addressing it atm but could the ich become a problem with the lack of slime and damage fins, i'm off out to get some melafix/treatment of some sort atm just in case i see it develop, he seems to be very resistant to it so far, but when hurt, i doubt that resistance will hold.
Any advice would be appreciated guys:
Pictures to come.
Migs
This morning my old man walked into the lounge to discover the poor guy was on the floor curled up and dry, my dad didn't think he was alive until he touched his tail and still gave us a large spring of life.
We put him back in the tank but it wasn't a pretty sight, he was curled up, darting almost as if he could get out of that position, it was quiet terrible to see him acting so strange and unable to uncurl but then suddenly he broke free!
Shortly after we saw the extent of damage, looked like his dorsal fin had been a bit damaged, he hasnt raised it like he normally does either, then behind that there is a massive drag of something (Broken fin/slime??) i didn't see it when we put him back in but when he was in the tank for 5 minutes i saw, i was thinking our main tank is in need of a clean and that he wasn't doing so well in there!
I had a second aquarium as a medicine tank (Large thing) until recently i broke it by putting it in my bath to clean and not realise the bath wasn't big enough (Curve had shifted the glass and it just gave in).
Now i have setup a clear plastic (Decent sized imo) properly cleaned container with my first fish pump (An apserlute oxygen monster and great at filtering too!)
I've relocated the loach to the tank where he is steadily breathing (Wohooo! not stressed *i hope*) and he is sat quietly i hope recovering! he is definately not as active as usual and his barbs aren't spaced open like usual, i haven't fed him yet, apparently he was fed this morning but i will do soon! It is new water though, i did a change on the main tank 60% new not long ago so he adapted to the clean water no problem at all!
Also the main tank has an ich issue, and i'm addressing it atm but could the ich become a problem with the lack of slime and damage fins, i'm off out to get some melafix/treatment of some sort atm just in case i see it develop, he seems to be very resistant to it so far, but when hurt, i doubt that resistance will hold.
Any advice would be appreciated guys:
Pictures to come.
Migs