Need help ASAP!

[pinballqueen]

My mother's dolphin mormyrid is sick....he's lying on the bottom (still breathing and everything...)

She thought it might be nitrates, but she's saying they tested minimal, and she did a partial water change but that didn't help. Nothing else in the tank is ill, nothing has been added, and the fish was fine this morning. He's not been beat up or anything either. What could it be?

Open to any and all suggestions, no matter how absurd.

 

[DrDeath]

NO spots or any signs of disease or illness?

DrD

 

[pinballqueen]

Update: she said he possibly has blood coming from his vent, not much though....

She said after the water change he acted disoriented, then settled back to the bottom again....

Does anyone know a good disease ID site?

 

[Cichlid Woman]

Here's one, with additional links at the bottom of that page: http://www.2cah.com/pandora/Disease.html#External

What is a dolphin mormyrid?!

-- Pat

 

[DrDeath]

I have used this one with success:

http://fins.actwin.com/articles/disease/chart1.php

Has she removed the fish from the tank?

DrD

 

[pinballqueen]

She doesn't have a quarantine tank to move him to-he's very large, almost a foot long....

Mormyrids are the family of fish that include baby-whales and elephant nose fish. Kinda rare, a little difficult. This is the first major problem we've had with him though.

 

[DrDeath]

I am not your person for rare and difficult! I have enough problems with common and easy fish (just joking)

Sorry I couldn't help more!

DrD

 

[Twilight]

Maybe it injured itself internally while jumping or another way. I had a huge BGK who got itself stuck behind a filter and injured itself internally somehow and soon died a few days later. It's a sad thing. Sorry.

 

[pinballqueen]

It's looking like that is the case. He's not going to make it, I don't think.... Oh well.

Thanks for the quick replies, guys.

 

[brackishwannbe]

injured fish after water change..

After my first water change I had a Danio that began to swim very crazy, uncontrollable, and then it just layed in one spot until it died two days later. I did some reading and found out that the fish had gotten 'swim-blatter', a condition that results from the fish drinking undissolved gas that is in the newly added water. The gas gets in the fishes blood stream and then disolves causing the fish to die. I hope your dolphin recovers, but it don't sound good. I've also had fish physical injured while I was rearranging the tank. Hope this helps.