One of my gouramis is having trouble staying sunk.
There have been no changes to the tank, no new occupants, plants, food or hardware (rocks etc) - nothing has happened to him that we know of in the way of trauma and he seems to be a happy fish still, swimming and eating and interacting with the others.
We have looked up everything we can think of, the only possible candidate that I can find being TB. But we are really not convinced on that one. No one else is sick, nor has anyone else been sick. We haven't had a death in about a year, no-one has had meds for anything else.
So far, he has been swimming like this for a week. He can get down under the water, but he doesn't unless he has to. He is better today then he has been, going down every few minutes, but not being able to stay under for long, he's just completed a course of Interpet No.9.
If he seemed to be suffering I would have squished him by now, but he's right in there as soon as I open the lid to get his share of food, he paddles about with the rest of them and apart from not being able to get down from the surface without effort, we can see nothing visibly wrong with him - by this, I mean he doesn't look like a sick or dieing fish.
I am at a loss. If it is TB with only one visible symptom, he must have had it for at least a year, so everyone probably has it, but I am not entirely convinced, from what I have read, we should be seeing more then just this.
Anyone got any other ideas? or own experiences? One of the sites I looked at said kill him immediately if you suspect TB, but I am not convinced enough to squish him. What else could be happening with him?
There have been no changes to the tank, no new occupants, plants, food or hardware (rocks etc) - nothing has happened to him that we know of in the way of trauma and he seems to be a happy fish still, swimming and eating and interacting with the others.
We have looked up everything we can think of, the only possible candidate that I can find being TB. But we are really not convinced on that one. No one else is sick, nor has anyone else been sick. We haven't had a death in about a year, no-one has had meds for anything else.
So far, he has been swimming like this for a week. He can get down under the water, but he doesn't unless he has to. He is better today then he has been, going down every few minutes, but not being able to stay under for long, he's just completed a course of Interpet No.9.
If he seemed to be suffering I would have squished him by now, but he's right in there as soon as I open the lid to get his share of food, he paddles about with the rest of them and apart from not being able to get down from the surface without effort, we can see nothing visibly wrong with him - by this, I mean he doesn't look like a sick or dieing fish.
I am at a loss. If it is TB with only one visible symptom, he must have had it for at least a year, so everyone probably has it, but I am not entirely convinced, from what I have read, we should be seeing more then just this.
Anyone got any other ideas? or own experiences? One of the sites I looked at said kill him immediately if you suspect TB, but I am not convinced enough to squish him. What else could be happening with him?
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