Sick Parrot Fish

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VulpuixScyther

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Does anyone know why my parrot fish is laying down on his side like this? He was fine literally 30 minutes ago. He just ate and was swimming around normally.
It's a 60 gallon tank, all of my levels are perfect.
I have 5 yoyo loaches, 5 zebra danios, 8 neon tetras (I used to have 10 but I suspect the parrot fish ate 2 of them), 7 platies of different kinds, 2 minnows, and 6 black skirt tetras.

He bullied my black skirts sometimes but they were hardly ever grouped so I think that stopped and they are comfortable with him now. He left all of my other fish alone and they left him alone. There is no other bullying that takes place, and everyone gets food. Especially the parrot fish.


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Temp? Water quality? Maybe something he ate, could be alot of factors...

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The temperature stays at around 78 degrees, my ammonia is 0, nitrates are 5.0, nitrites are 0, pH is probably around 8.0

I put some aquarium salt in the tank and he perked up a bit.


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