ottermad
11-30-2002, 11:57 AM
Hi ( 1st timer )
I hope someone out there can come up with an answer.
My problem is up until 2 days ago I had a happy healthy 25g taken with 4 small Pl*co & a shoal of Guppy. Yesturday when I got up 1 of the Pl*co was floating dead on the surface. I was thinking oh well these thing happen. That was until this afternoon, as I was watching the tank my largest and strongest Pl*co, when I relised it was gasping (breathing ??) very very rapidly, at the same time at 1 minute intervals it would swim to the surface gulp air then swim down and expell it, this continued for about 10 minutes. Then came the real shock it settled down for about 5 minutes then started swimming very fast and erratic stopped for short while then it what I can only discribe as HAD A FIT, (like a crocodile in a death roll side over side) then stopped moving and floatted to the surface dead. Any advise would be a real help, Thanks
I hope someone out there can come up with an answer.
My problem is up until 2 days ago I had a happy healthy 25g taken with 4 small Pl*co & a shoal of Guppy. Yesturday when I got up 1 of the Pl*co was floating dead on the surface. I was thinking oh well these thing happen. That was until this afternoon, as I was watching the tank my largest and strongest Pl*co, when I relised it was gasping (breathing ??) very very rapidly, at the same time at 1 minute intervals it would swim to the surface gulp air then swim down and expell it, this continued for about 10 minutes. Then came the real shock it settled down for about 5 minutes then started swimming very fast and erratic stopped for short while then it what I can only discribe as HAD A FIT, (like a crocodile in a death roll side over side) then stopped moving and floatted to the surface dead. Any advise would be a real help, Thanks