Ahhh, I started writing a post in fish emergency about one of my Threadfin Rainbowfish not being quite right, and showing symptoms.
While I was writing the emergency post, the male threadfin started to swim upside down and sideways etc (what I call a death swim), had to promptly take him out and euthanised him quickly.
Pretty annoyed to be honest as do not know why and had no chance to treat him as all this happened in the space of less than 2 hours!
The male was showing something suspiciously like dropsy symptoms.
Kind of bloated, pectoral fin sort of sticking out.
Not swimming a whole lot, sort of swimming gently in soft flow areas, not swimming as normally as other rainbowfish.
Gills/breathing a little more than normal
Colouration looked ok.
Added Indian Almond Leaves 3 days ago, thats the only new recent addition to tank.
I did feed a little bloodworms yesterday, realised the bloodworms were a bit on the big side, so stopped immediately and no further bloodworms added, did add a little normal micro pellet feed.
Wondering if the bloodworms was a mistake?
Not going to feed these frozen bloodworms again.
Going to throw out the package. This is usually a very rare treat, once a month treat really.
The water parameters are perfectly normal, Ammonia - 0, Nitrite - 0, Nitrate - 5 to 10 ppm, pH 7.6 to 7.8.
Shrimps and snails behaving perfectly normally, if it was a water issue, would have thought they would be affected first really.
Going to feed peas tonight in hope this may stop any further events of this illness in any of my other thread fins who by the way are looking and swimming normally.
Does anyone have any other ideas what this might have been?
Can dropsy act that fast?
And can anyone recommend good frozen foods for Threadfin Rainbowfish?
Cyclops, daphnia, baby brine shrimps?
While I was writing the emergency post, the male threadfin started to swim upside down and sideways etc (what I call a death swim), had to promptly take him out and euthanised him quickly.
Pretty annoyed to be honest as do not know why and had no chance to treat him as all this happened in the space of less than 2 hours!
The male was showing something suspiciously like dropsy symptoms.
Kind of bloated, pectoral fin sort of sticking out.
Not swimming a whole lot, sort of swimming gently in soft flow areas, not swimming as normally as other rainbowfish.
Gills/breathing a little more than normal
Colouration looked ok.
Added Indian Almond Leaves 3 days ago, thats the only new recent addition to tank.
I did feed a little bloodworms yesterday, realised the bloodworms were a bit on the big side, so stopped immediately and no further bloodworms added, did add a little normal micro pellet feed.
Wondering if the bloodworms was a mistake?
Not going to feed these frozen bloodworms again.
Going to throw out the package. This is usually a very rare treat, once a month treat really.
The water parameters are perfectly normal, Ammonia - 0, Nitrite - 0, Nitrate - 5 to 10 ppm, pH 7.6 to 7.8.
Shrimps and snails behaving perfectly normally, if it was a water issue, would have thought they would be affected first really.
Going to feed peas tonight in hope this may stop any further events of this illness in any of my other thread fins who by the way are looking and swimming normally.
Does anyone have any other ideas what this might have been?
Can dropsy act that fast?
And can anyone recommend good frozen foods for Threadfin Rainbowfish?
Cyclops, daphnia, baby brine shrimps?
