Fish bent 90 degrees! HELP!

[CoreyMac]

Should I go ahead and take this fish out? Do I risk infecting my other fish if something is wrong with him?

 

[fishcatch22]

clove oil, brick, knife, freezer, car...the list is endless

LOL! sorry, that just made me laugh. I don't know why... anyway, if he starts looking BAD, I think it would be best for the fish if you put him out of his misery.

 

[kcooley]

the freezer is the way i go. put it in a bag with some water and freeze

 

[shaunakadub]

Sounds more like a genetic thing then something that could spread to other fish.

you'll notice him getting weaker and weaker, and depending on what other type of fish are in the tank, they may start to pick on him causing him to die quicker.

 

[Lobo.]

sounds like neon tetra disease, it can cause a bent back, it can also wipe out all your neon tetras, take out all your infected fish, as the disease is spread when the healthy fish peck at the dying one! as far as i know there is no cure for this disease, so you might as well uthanise... although trying to nurse them back to health in a q-tank might have a snowball's chance...

for neon tetras, id just use a knife, decapitation is quick, and very easy to do on such a small fish

 

[jennfier]

I have a female platy that did that for a while. Every time it 'spaces out', it'd also go a twisty thing about 90 degrees that'd last 10-20 secs at a time and the male platy would nip at it, seemingly to shake her out of her trance. It's been a while since I've seen her do that now, maybe months, and she's still alive and well and active and life goes on in fishy world.