Glasstapper
11-22-2006, 12:35 AM
I thought I would put a warning in the thread title in case some of you get squeamish looking at these things.
This is the one that I thought was looking a little chubby lately, but nothing like these pictures. I saw him this morning out swimming around. He was sulking near the heater and ate a few flakes, but otherwise he looked fine. I came home this afternoon from work and gave them their dinner, but when he hadn't come out after a couple of minutes, I knew something was up. I checked his territory, and sure enough. There he was on his side under his pirate ship. I moved the ship to make sure that he was not moving and his body just sort of floated around.
I removed him and looked closely at him. The side he was lying on had a large round lump that looked bruised. Now I don't know if it was just the blood from his body that pooled there or something else, so I cut it open with a needle and brown fluid came out. Is it blood? It smelled pretty bad, but I imagine a dead fish might.
What do you guys think? I'm on day 4 of medicating my tank with Melafix and Pimafix, and performed a 20% water change with gravel siphoning yesterday. My carbon filter was removed before medicating, and my water parameters are reading 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and 10 nitrates.
It's a mystery to me. I thought he was the healthy one. In other news, Scar's lip seems to be growing back.
This is the one that I thought was looking a little chubby lately, but nothing like these pictures. I saw him this morning out swimming around. He was sulking near the heater and ate a few flakes, but otherwise he looked fine. I came home this afternoon from work and gave them their dinner, but when he hadn't come out after a couple of minutes, I knew something was up. I checked his territory, and sure enough. There he was on his side under his pirate ship. I moved the ship to make sure that he was not moving and his body just sort of floated around.
I removed him and looked closely at him. The side he was lying on had a large round lump that looked bruised. Now I don't know if it was just the blood from his body that pooled there or something else, so I cut it open with a needle and brown fluid came out. Is it blood? It smelled pretty bad, but I imagine a dead fish might.
What do you guys think? I'm on day 4 of medicating my tank with Melafix and Pimafix, and performed a 20% water change with gravel siphoning yesterday. My carbon filter was removed before medicating, and my water parameters are reading 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and 10 nitrates.
It's a mystery to me. I thought he was the healthy one. In other news, Scar's lip seems to be growing back.