Help - Strange Blob Appeared!

[minimadtrix]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to keeping tropical fish, but have still managed to successfully (and not surprisingly) breed some Mollies!!!

Anyway, the reason for this post is the following

I have a male Siamese Fighting Fish, which has been attacked and lost most of his finnage, so the other night, I put him into a breeding net for safe keeping as he looked a bit lathargic and didn't want him being attacked by the other fish. He's doing well and seems to be getting his strength back.

Yesterday morning I got up to find a strange blob underneath the breeding net he was in. It looks like a big airbubble, but when you poke at it, it moves around as a solid mass. When the fish swim underneath it, you can see their reflection in it.

My tank consists of catfish, otocinclus, a plec, clown loaches, various guppies, 2 silver sharkfish, a male and female dwarf gourami, mollies, cherry barbs, zebra danios and the Siamese Fighting Fish.

Does anybody have any ideas what it is?

 

[Sibelius]

Hmmm, this might be a bit farfetched, but occasionally bubbles of methane or other toxic substances form, ie, if waste got caught under the sand and decayed anaerobically, this may have got through the substrate, or whatever it was caught beneath, and then collided with the next on its way up. I'd remove it straight away.

 

[minimadtrix]

Is that possible if it's about a 2 inch blob?

 

[PA_fishlover]

Might it be a bubble nest from your male gourami?

 

[minimadtrix]

But don't Gouramis produce little bubbles to form a big one (I've looked at various Gourami bubblenests on the net, but none look like this. This is just one big bubble. We can only describe it as looking like a mercury bubble on a bigger scale!!! None of the fish are touching it, but they are swimming near to it. All the fish seem healthy, so can't imagine it's anything dangerous to them.

Any more thoughts please?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

wierd!

can you post a pic for us. might help

on a side note, i'm not surprised your fighters not doing too well in a community tank, they're really best kept alone. I won't argue the point here but if I was you I'd do a little research into it.

 

[shellyboylan]

you sure it isn't just an air bubble? i'm always getting them under my breeder net and they sound exactly as described, just 1 giant bubble stuck beneath the net - my solution is to stick my finger into the net and push it down to make it escape, tipping the net doesn't work though coz it's still trapped... hey so that my 2p, good luck

 

[minimadtrix]

And the winner is Shellyboylan! Yes, after all that, it was an air bubble? Never thought of that, mainly because every time I pushed it, it just moved round a bit further!! :stupid:

Ah the joys of being a newbie!!!


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