Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this I'm new to the forum...
I have a 10 gallon with two red rasboras, silver scissortail and a golden chinese algae eater(Flippy)... I was given them about a year ago and Flippy has been really healthy until we moved about 4 months ago... I noticed that he was not sucking on the tank walls or on the rocks anymore and that he was getting really skinny (perhaps the water difference) anyways! I had NO idea that we were supposed to buy them waffers! (I feel so devastated that I was starving my poor Flippy) So when I woke up this morning he wasn't moving... He does "play dead" but maybe that was just him being so exhausted from having no nutrition... He was breathing only every 3 seconds or so WAY less then usual... and when I attempted to scoop him out so he wouldn't contaminate the other fish he didn't move... Well when I put him in a glass of tank water he then began to breath more regularly but they were shallow breaths (small gill movements) but he still wasn't moving... I called the pet store bought him some algae waffers but I am so worried it's too late... Any ideas or suggestions? I really love my Flippy and I'm so upset about this I've been crying all day...
Thanks in advance!
I have a 10 gallon with two red rasboras, silver scissortail and a golden chinese algae eater(Flippy)... I was given them about a year ago and Flippy has been really healthy until we moved about 4 months ago... I noticed that he was not sucking on the tank walls or on the rocks anymore and that he was getting really skinny (perhaps the water difference) anyways! I had NO idea that we were supposed to buy them waffers! (I feel so devastated that I was starving my poor Flippy) So when I woke up this morning he wasn't moving... He does "play dead" but maybe that was just him being so exhausted from having no nutrition... He was breathing only every 3 seconds or so WAY less then usual... and when I attempted to scoop him out so he wouldn't contaminate the other fish he didn't move... Well when I put him in a glass of tank water he then began to breath more regularly but they were shallow breaths (small gill movements) but he still wasn't moving... I called the pet store bought him some algae waffers but I am so worried it's too late... Any ideas or suggestions? I really love my Flippy and I'm so upset about this I've been crying all day...
Thanks in advance!