HELP!!! zebra danio won't eat!!!!

[Joanna]

i have a zebra danio who won't eat he just swims near the surface of the water very slowly and won't eat when i feed the other fish he has been doing this for about 2 days now. I had another zebra danio who did the same thing and he died and i was just hoping that you could help me. Please tell me if there is anything i can do.

[O-man21]

how did the other one die? It might be a swim bladder problem and so he can't turn his mouth to the surface to eat.

[Joanna]

I took a good look at him and there is like a whiteish lump on the side of his head. what is it??? Help me please. i think my other one died of the same thing. :( :confused:

[O-man21]

got a pic.it's hard to tell by the decription but it could be lots of things..fungus..ick..a cut that was infected

[Joanna]

i took another good look at him and his head has turned red like from blood and he doens't look good at all. if it is ick i have some treatment but if it isn't i wouldn't want to add something to the water that would harm the other fish. sorry no pics. i don't know if he got cut by something. i don't think he did.:(

[O-man21]

it's not ick..its a fungus that is affecting his gills..there is almost no hope of savinghim..sorry.

[NJ Devils Fan]

What are your water parameters?

[Joanna]

He died last night. Will it spread to my other fish? Do i need to do something to my tank? I am not sure what my water permeters are, i always go to the pet store to check all of that stuff they will do it for free, if there is something wrong they will tell me but there hasn't been anything wrong.

[Joanna]

another one of my zebra danios got it too and he died last night. i cleaned and treated the water and i bought three new danios and they seem to be fine now.

[NJ Devils Fan]

When you go to the store, you should get p.h, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate testing kits. It is important to have each of those. I know it's expensive, but this entire hobby is. ;)

[Joanna]

yeah this hobby sure is expencive. i got the ph ammonia nitrate and nitrite checked today at the pet store (they will do it for free) and they said that everything is fine and i am done cycling.

[NJ Devils Fan]

A lot of people don't know what they are talking about. Just the other day, someone suggested to me that I go to a Petco that they go to because it had good fish. I went in, and half of the tanks had ich. After about 15 minutes of waiting, I asked the guy what the name of a certain plant was, and he told me that the store only had planted and non planted plants. Then I asked him if he had a certain fish, and he goes to a tank and points to the wrong one. It is a joke. Maybe I should start my own business. ;)

[Joanna]

you should start your own business you would be good at it. i know what you mean, my brother has hermit crabs and he was looking at the ones in Petco and half of them were dead because they didn't have any humidity or water in the tank and he told the manager that a bunch of them were dead, and the manager said, "oh are they?" and he just walked away and didn't do anything about it. it is sad the way some people treat animals!

Joanna

[NJ Devils Fan]

I am seriously thinking about writing a letter to the CEO of Petco telling him about all the bad things in the Petco stores.

[Joanna]

you really should it just is so sad the way they treat all of those poor animals.

[NJ Devils Fan]

It's gross, I refuse to go to one ever again ubless there are HUGE changes.

[Joanna]

it sure is! i also feel sorry for the puppies being trapped in those little cages with no room to do all of those things they like to do.

[French Fry2]

wasup i think petco is a bad store to the people arent very friendly and not at all knoledgable...NJDevils fan,you should start a store...where you located???:D

[Joanna]

like there are a lot of workers at petco who really don't know a thing but they act like they know about everything and they give people bad advice and all that. that really gets on my nerves.

[NJ Devils Fan]

New York. I know everyone from England and Canada will want to come. ;)

[Joanna]

yeah, I'll have to come too! :D it would be a long trip for me though.

[Peteisrad]

I have one really great fish store in my area, so i do all my buying there....but i was in a petco a couple of weeks ago adopting some kittens, and i went into the aquattics section. After visitng, I realized that I would never buy ANY fish from that Petco. Many of their fish were dead, and I won't buy anything from a tank that has dead fish in it. I mean, there were chewed up fish bodies....ones that had obviously been there for days. they probably think that if a fish dies, its fish food or something...who knows.

Pete

[Joanna]

i know, our wal mart has dead fish in it all the time, and they just leave them in there :eek: it's sad. i will NEVER buy fish there.