BLACKPUFF
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:33 pm
Rescued GSP from Pet Club
IP's, Fin Rot, tail clamped, black belly, good apetite.
Quarantined and treated 4 days with Paraguard, w/daily 25% wc - Brightened but still black belly
Followed up with 5 day General Cure food soak regimen. No change in belly. still black and underweight, tail clamping much less more emotional than from illness.
Recovered from the fin rot, color was good, bright attitude, but still exhibiting the black belly.
He had been quarantined 4 weeks and so I released him to a commune of 5 where his belly went normal white and he was actively exploring, but in a short time 1 bigger puff started harrassing him. I moved him to the hospital wards 37 gallon observation tank. He retained no outward injurys but his belly was black again. He began swimming up and down the wall endlessly.
I summed it up to possibly being an emotional issue.
I then introduced him to a different commune of 6 in a 55 gallon.
He swam to the bottom stayed there until the next day where i could see he was dark and was hyperventilating. Wanting to protect the others, i removed him.
He is now in the 20 gallon hospital tank where he is now resting on the gravel under the filter intake.
He is no longer hyperventilating, his eyes are bright, he seems quite willing and able to move about normaly, his apetite is ok, but not nearly as voracious, but his tail is clamped hard, he's shy of me moving him all over the damm place, and he still has the black belly and dark coloring
All 10 tanks are:
0 - amonia, nitrite, nitrate
8.0 - ph
sg - 1.008 - 1.012
daily meal varies bloodworms, prawns in shell, clams, mealworms.
25% w/c daily for all tanks for Shelter's bi-monthly Prazi-Pro deworming routine of which he has been taking part in since Monday
IP's, Fin Rot, tail clamped, black belly, good apetite.
Quarantined and treated 4 days with Paraguard, w/daily 25% wc - Brightened but still black belly
Followed up with 5 day General Cure food soak regimen. No change in belly. still black and underweight, tail clamping much less more emotional than from illness.
Recovered from the fin rot, color was good, bright attitude, but still exhibiting the black belly.
He had been quarantined 4 weeks and so I released him to a commune of 5 where his belly went normal white and he was actively exploring, but in a short time 1 bigger puff started harrassing him. I moved him to the hospital wards 37 gallon observation tank. He retained no outward injurys but his belly was black again. He began swimming up and down the wall endlessly.
I summed it up to possibly being an emotional issue.
I then introduced him to a different commune of 6 in a 55 gallon.
He swam to the bottom stayed there until the next day where i could see he was dark and was hyperventilating. Wanting to protect the others, i removed him.
He is now in the 20 gallon hospital tank where he is now resting on the gravel under the filter intake.
He is no longer hyperventilating, his eyes are bright, he seems quite willing and able to move about normaly, his apetite is ok, but not nearly as voracious, but his tail is clamped hard, he's shy of me moving him all over the damm place, and he still has the black belly and dark coloring
All 10 tanks are:
0 - amonia, nitrite, nitrate
8.0 - ph
sg - 1.008 - 1.012
daily meal varies bloodworms, prawns in shell, clams, mealworms.
25% w/c daily for all tanks for Shelter's bi-monthly Prazi-Pro deworming routine of which he has been taking part in since Monday