K so i cam home and saw one hatchet hanging at the top o the tank, when they usually dont, his mouth was pointed up and to the top of the water. None of the other fiah are doing this. Im waiting for the test results. Backround, 40g planted, opperating for several months. I cycled the tank too..should i put him in our empty 10g? Also cycled. He is currently doing backflips and its freaking me out. They dont eat much because they dont hang atthe top much and dont see the food..HELP!!!!
Sick hatchet!!!
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posleen103
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a hatchet fish? A health unstressed hatchet fish should be hanging out at the top of the tank.
posleen103
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Are you sure there hatchet fish? My marbled hatchets only rarely go down into the mid water area, and never to the bottom.
http://www.fishchannel.com/images/article-images/freshwater-aquariums/marbled-hatchetfish-500.jpg
http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/fish-pictures/silver-hatchetfish-1265841654-800.jpg
Are marbled and silver hatchet fish. Are those what were talking about?
http://www.fishchannel.com/images/article-images/freshwater-aquariums/marbled-hatchetfish-500.jpg
http://www.tropicalfishkeeping.com/fish-pictures/silver-hatchetfish-1265841654-800.jpg
Are marbled and silver hatchet fish. Are those what were talking about?
posleen103
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Don't move them. Silver Hatchets are fairly temperamental. If you recently added a bunch of them only losing one is a pretty good show. If over the next few days they don't start hanging out in the top water I'd get worried. Also hatchets don't eat a lot of flake food. If you look at them they are tiny tiny fish, very slim. They just don't need to eat much even though they look like a larger fish.
posleen103 said:
Ok, i also feed bloodworms and pellets twice a week, do they eat after im gone? And they have never really hung out at the top. Only one, the smallest one, hangs out at the top. How could i reduce the stress if there is any? How could i help them?
posleen103
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Bloodworms my guys love, pellets they ignore. Do you have any plants on the surface? Mine love to cruise under the duckweed I keep in mine. Other then that once they adjust they seem to be fine.
posleen103
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Silver hatchets don't hug the top quite as much as marbled hatchets, but they do stay in the top 1/3rd of the water right? And as for eating more... look at them head on. There really really skinny fish. I expect a cardinal tetra and a hatchet fish to eat about the same.
posleen103 said:
Thanks for the help!!! Haha ya i can only see a little sliver when i look head on so your totally right!! But sometimes they hang by the gravel, and other times they are in the top part but never at the way top...kinda weird...
posleen103
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Good, aren't they pretty? I"ve found that hatchets seem pretty delicate moving water, but once there acclimated they tend to be good. Fortunately my LFS and I both use well water from the same aquifer which helps a lot.
posleen103
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Water Changes are key for them. I keep marbled though, which are a little different.
