Help!!!

[jjbtexas]

she's acting all weird just sitting at the bottom and breathing heavily, just brought he home 1 hour ago

some kind of cichlid, Brakus maybe??

http://web.mac.com/johnbrennan1016/Site/Fish.html#27

[TrevorScott]

no picture??

[Dangerdoll]

the upload didn't work. What kind of fish is this?

[jjbtexas]

did this help
http://web.mac.com/johnbrennan1016/Site/Fish.html#27

[Rbishop]

Can you tell us more specifics about your tank?

[jjbtexas]

20 gal, 78 degrees, other fish as listed below, this was happened immediately

[Dangerdoll]

was thus fish bought from a brackish tank? Looking quickly, it resembles a brackish cichlid... no?

[jjbtexas]

yeah it is, i didn't know how to spell it

[Dangerdoll]

brichardi?

[terror spawnin]

I would get a bucket or another tank and add some aquarium salt or aquarium water hardener. Or rush the fish back to the lfs pronto.

[Rbishop]

how did you acclimate?

[Dangerdoll]

if you took the fish out of a brackish tank and put it in a freshwater tank, this could be the problem.....

[jjbtexas]

how much salt??

[jjbtexas]

kept in bag and set the bag in tank for a while 30 or so min then released them, 1 acting fine, the other not so

[Rbishop]

Can you call the place where you bought them and verify what water they were in?

To go brackish, you really need marine salt.

[jjbtexas]

how mush salt per gallon
they are colsed

[jjbtexas]

anybody?? i'm worried

[Dangerdoll]

you can't just throw salt in the tank and call it a day. The fish in your tank are already in freshwater and I know the barbs wouldn't take so kindly to a brackish tank.

You'll need to get in touch with the LFS first thing in the morning to find out if these fish were kept in a brackish tanbk in the first place, they may not have been. They could be just experiencing pH shock or something along those lines but we are only speculating because we don't know the circumstances. For now, I would leave things as they are now and call as I said, first thing in the morning and proceed from there.

[jjbtexas]

aight, thank u

[Rbishop]

Yes, best to let things ride. It could easily be just poor acclimation or even a weak fish. Call them up first thing to verify.

In the meantime, do some net research on brackish tanks.

[jjbtexas]

will do

[terror spawnin]

If you don't add salt to your tank at all when you do water changes then you will not harm the rest of your fish by adding a tablespoon of salt per five gallons of water in your tank. This will relax the fish and things should be fine. Then you can figure out if you want to set up a seperate brackish tank or not.

[jjbtexas]

moved the 2 to my back-up 10 gal and added salt. minor improvement, will keep yall updated