I'm new to this forum but hope someone can help. I've had an awful week.
I woke up on Weds to find that my tank had cracked in the night and ALL the water had leaked out. Every single drop. The fish were all lying on the gravel, I dumped in some water immediately and tho most were obviously dead I saw some gill movement on my lovely severum. To cut a long and traumatic story short I lost over 20 fish, all my lovely adult male congo tetra's (tho all the females survived) all my lovely adult rainbows.... BUT the female congo's, 2 big clown loaches, 2 severum, a talking catfish and 3 cory's all survived, they are having to cope in a small borrowed tank in tap water (treated) and with no filter but look surprisingly ok. I bought a tank online which was delivered on Thursday smashed, so have just bought another and set it up and will move them when it's settled down. BUT the problem now is that one of the severum - a gold aged about 2 and about 4" is totally traumatised. She/he is hanging in the water nose up tail down, holding completely still in the water backfinning but able to move around the tank at will, tho she stays in one corner unless frightened out of it. I haven't seen her/him eat, she/he watches me as I see eyes moving but she/s completely stressed out. It came out of the corner as I moved something last night, still vertical in the water but moving slightly round the tank, but was then lightly bullied by the other green severum, same age but about 6" so went back to the corner.
I had a gold severum years ago that did this thru stress and it ended up being euthanised. I really don't know what to do, she just sits in the corner with her tail touching the gravel and her nose pointing to the sky, completely still. Do I move her into the new tank in a few days with the others or leave her in a small tank alone (obviously I'll set it up properly, the one they are in was set up at a moments notice.) I don't really have space for 2 tanks, and the new tank is a Juwel Trigon 190 corner tank, so there'll be plenty of space...
Has anyone any thoughts?
Thanks in advance
Belinda