My dwarf guorami keeps floating/swimming with his tail up and his head down. My other fish are doing fine, it’s only him. I just got him a few days ago and added him to my tank. It’s 38 gallons, cycled, planted, 2 nerites, 1 dwarf flame guorami, dwarf blue (the sick one), 3 guppies and 1 molly. The flame guorami nipped at him and chased him a few times the first day but after that left him alone.
He was fine for 2 days but now he tries to swim but he keeps spiraling in circles, if he’s lying on his side on the bottom, his tail keeps floating up. He will have periods of normal swimming and then suddenly swimming erratically and his tail floating up again.
I moved him to a smaller, makeshift hospital tank so he wouldn’t have so much water to swim through.
Main tank parameters:
Temp - 80.5 F
Nitrite - 0
Nitrates - between 1 and 5 (my test kit measures 0-5 and it’s a bit darker than the 0 but not as dark as the 5 - API freshwater master test kit)
Ammonia - 0
He was fine for 2 days but now he tries to swim but he keeps spiraling in circles, if he’s lying on his side on the bottom, his tail keeps floating up. He will have periods of normal swimming and then suddenly swimming erratically and his tail floating up again.
I moved him to a smaller, makeshift hospital tank so he wouldn’t have so much water to swim through.
Main tank parameters:
Temp - 80.5 F
Nitrite - 0
Nitrates - between 1 and 5 (my test kit measures 0-5 and it’s a bit darker than the 0 but not as dark as the 5 - API freshwater master test kit)
Ammonia - 0