Fish Acting Wierd

[dburgess92]

I have a 90 litre tank setup with:

3 neon tetras
2 glolite tertras
3 lemon tetras
2 pearl gouramis

I went to feed my fish tonight and when i put the food in, only the 2 pearls came to eat, the rest don't. My 2 lemon tetras are just floating in the middle of the tank with thier mouths opening and closing. The other fish are sitting around at the bottom of the tank.

And also i cant find my 3rd lemon tetra. I can only see the 2 of them floating in the middle but not the third. I've looked everywhere. Any ideas?

I used to have 3 glolites but one died. It looked very white and puffed up. Any ideas? There wouldn't be disese in the tank or something? It died a few days ago.

Thanks

 

[theshadowinc]

What is your water stats?
Ammo
Nitrite
Nitrate
PH
temp of water

These are the basics and should be noted

 

[WILDER]

Need to find the lemon tetra as if its dead it could be polluting the water and causing the fish distress.
Also need water stats that the shadowinc has asked for.

 

[dburgess92]

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10 ish

Now thats another 3 died. Only the 2 pearls and a neon left.

Need help please!!

 

[WILDER]

Any other symtoms apart from flicking and rubbing.
What do there gills look like.
The one that went a white colour did it fluffy fungus on it. Did the fish bloat up.

 

[Athena]

Did you use a liquid test kit or strips? If you haven't found the missing fish yet, it's body will be decomposing somewhere in the tank, as Wilder said, and this can affect the other fish.

When did you last do a water change?

Is it possible that something could have polluted the water in any way? Anyone sprayed anything in the room the tank is in? Or have you been doing any tank maintenance recently where you could have accidentally contaminated the water (e.g. put hands in tank that may have had some substance on them - household cleaning products etc?).

What about the temp? Have you double-checked that your heater hasn't malfunctioned?

And is the filter working ok?

Sorry, lots of questions but things that need to be crossed off the list!

Regards - Athena

 

[dburgess92]

The fish bloated up a little. They just all went quite white looking. I could hardly recognise the glolite. What would it be?
My tests are fine.

I last did a water change two days ago. I moved some of the plants around a bit. My hand was in the tank at the time but i cant think of anything that would have been on them.

The filter is good.

Temp is good.

I used a liquid test kit.

I still cant find that fish. I dont think i took it out with the other fish but cant remember.

 

[WILDER]

Athena just asked a good question used any sprays or household chemicals near the tank.
Are the fish darting around the tank.
It can be many things from parasites, bacterial, toxins in the water, ph shock.
Has your ph changed.

 

[dburgess92]

I cleaned around the outside of the tank with polish and then rubbed off the top of the tank just with the cloth, but the lid was obviously closed. I didnt spray the top of the tank.

 

[WILDER]

Did the fish start to act odd after you polished the tank.
If so immediate water change and run some black carbon.
Always spray in another room onto the cloth.

 

[dburgess92]

I didnt notice the fish after i cleaned. I didnt spray polish on the cloth when i cleaned the top, i just wiped it over after polishing other things.

 

[WILDER]

If fish have gotten ill after the polish it could be that.
I would just do a water change and run some fresh black carbon and see how things go.

 

[dburgess92]

Well i will do a water change just now and then i will let you all know how i get on. I will check around the tank for that other fish aswell. I maybe already taken it out but i cant remember.

Thanks so far.

 

[Athena]

The thing is with these household sprays is that the particles of chemicals can float around in the atmosphere for a while. Then they land on everything in the vicinity. So let's say you were polishing the outside of the tank, then a while later you go to the tank, open the lid (some particles in the air could fall and settle into the water) - and you also touch the lid that has polish on it, then touch the fish food (cross contamination) and the fish eat the contaminated food. Sounds a bit dramatic but that's just to give you an idea of how these things can so easily happen.

Not saying 100% for sure this is what has happened but it does seem a bit of a coincidence that the problem arose after the polishing was done.

Other than that, dropsy causes bloating (the fish scales will stick out from the body).

As Wilder said, do a large water change for now and monitor the remaining fish closely. Note down anything odd you can see going on - rapid breathing, listlessness, gasping at top, sitting at bottom, change in colour, any spots or redness anywhere...

Don't want to say treat for dropsy if it's not actually dropsy...

Athena