My Jack Dempsey looks very exhausted and cannot swim. If he is left alone he will sink to the bottom and sometimes make rapid movements across the tank until he has no energy. I suspect that the cause of this is stress from either some bigger fish in the tank or from him not being able to find a...
Some scales are missing from the top of it’s head and it has been fat for a month now. The male is always bothering it but there is no aggression, the males is following the female in the picture as well.
There is this gravel dwelling worm that my dad found in the tank. But not gonna lie it looks kinda good. We removed it and put it in a different tank no fish. Here is an image and a video, do you recognize it?
I don’t have a water provider, I get tap water and neutralize the chlorine with API chlorine and heavy metal neutralizer, to get the numbers i would have to go to the nearest pet smart and have the water tested
Thank you so much for the reply, we are currently in the process of buying more fish and my zebras recently bred, we only buy at least 5 at a time because of the price of these fish.
That may be the problem , the other tank mates are:
2 black tetras
2 zebra fish male and female
2 rainbows
2 swordtails makes and female
And of course the two tiger barbs
how ever there was no aggression that I saw
I have two tiger barbs and one of them is swimming slowly and going up to the top of the tank and then going back down to the bottom. I know that this means he is dying but I want to know why. We had the water tested a few weeks ago and yPh and nitrite leveled where normal. When we bought it the...