(wasn't sure where to put this, so if it's in the wrong spot, forgive me...)
So I started a tank originally to keep my baitfish for fishing... Most of my minnows had died off since, so I bought three little Pictus cats from Walmart; I love catfish, and these guys are so pretty with their long whiskers and spotted paintjob!!
Anyways, I introduced them to the water in the usual method (dip the bag, wait a half hour or so for the temps to normalize, then release into the water).... Well, as soon as I stuck the bag into the water, the Pictus started FREAKING OUT, swimming frantically! I kept my composure and waited for the waters to normalize to each other, then gently dumped the fish into their new home; my 10gal freshwater tank...
Now, however, they're absolutely convinced that they have to spend every last bit of strength to try and swim through the left side of the tank; for whatever reason, they just cannot comprehend that there's glass there and they're DEAD SET on getting to somewhere...
They've been at it for the past two hours at least. They won't touch the flake food, the pleco wafers, the little mini krill, nothing... They just keep trying to push their way through the glass. One of the three stops every so often and chills at the bottom, but it's not long before he's at it again... It's like they're standing at a brick wall trying to push themselves through it...
I'm concerned they're going to just keep trying until they die of exhaustion...
Tank-mates are:
6 minnows (who don't bother them, they keep to the Viking helm cover mostly)
1 Pleco who looks about as content as a fish who spends 90% of its time stuck to something could look.
Water is fresh tap, treated with chlorine treatment. Temp is about lukewarm/room temp. I have a pump and a bubbler and there are tons of tiny o2 bubbles in the tank; there's no way in hell they're oxygen-starved. I've tried turning everything off, and they're still convinced that they MUST devote ALL of their strength to swimming through a solid object...
Is there something I'm doing wrong? :S
Thanks,
- CK
So I started a tank originally to keep my baitfish for fishing... Most of my minnows had died off since, so I bought three little Pictus cats from Walmart; I love catfish, and these guys are so pretty with their long whiskers and spotted paintjob!!
Anyways, I introduced them to the water in the usual method (dip the bag, wait a half hour or so for the temps to normalize, then release into the water).... Well, as soon as I stuck the bag into the water, the Pictus started FREAKING OUT, swimming frantically! I kept my composure and waited for the waters to normalize to each other, then gently dumped the fish into their new home; my 10gal freshwater tank...
Now, however, they're absolutely convinced that they have to spend every last bit of strength to try and swim through the left side of the tank; for whatever reason, they just cannot comprehend that there's glass there and they're DEAD SET on getting to somewhere...
They've been at it for the past two hours at least. They won't touch the flake food, the pleco wafers, the little mini krill, nothing... They just keep trying to push their way through the glass. One of the three stops every so often and chills at the bottom, but it's not long before he's at it again... It's like they're standing at a brick wall trying to push themselves through it...
I'm concerned they're going to just keep trying until they die of exhaustion...
Tank-mates are:
6 minnows (who don't bother them, they keep to the Viking helm cover mostly)
1 Pleco who looks about as content as a fish who spends 90% of its time stuck to something could look.
Water is fresh tap, treated with chlorine treatment. Temp is about lukewarm/room temp. I have a pump and a bubbler and there are tons of tiny o2 bubbles in the tank; there's no way in hell they're oxygen-starved. I've tried turning everything off, and they're still convinced that they MUST devote ALL of their strength to swimming through a solid object...
Is there something I'm doing wrong? :S
Thanks,
- CK