wendyngd
Fish Crazy
Hi-
Forgive me for posting this here, Betta Mommy that I am, but I feel closer to you all than on the Common Livebearers forum. I have been having trouble keeping these mollies alive in the past 3-4 months. We seem to be mysteriously losing one a month. Now we're down to 3 and a silly, fat orange catfish! These mollies were born in this tank and raised here.
One died a week or so ago and there was one that seemed to really be suffering--laying on the bottom-breathing so heavily and then if I moved the net near him when I thought he was already dead, he would pop up and spin and end up swimming upside down until he shortly collapsed on the gravel again gasping for breath.
I am gratefully on vacation down in sunny Florida for the week with my husband--and well-operating automatic fish feeders feeding my guys up in NY. (I tested them for several weeks to get them used to them and make sure they worked all right). I JUST COULDN'T LEAVE THAT POOR FISH IN ITS MISERY! So I decided to read up on euthanasia on line, went to the drugstore for clove oil (which they didn't have) and ended up buying a package of Alka Seltzer--which worked very well and quickly...but was so hard to do. I feel so bad. He just reallly seemed to be suffering and didn't seem like he was going to recover--also kind of swollen--I couldn't get a close enough view of him (he would swim away) to see if he pineconed.
So I said a prayer and asked the fish to forgive me. I knew I had my fish forum family with me. I still felt awfullly sad--my husband told me he was proud of me because I care so much about my fish....
little fish
Thanks for listening.
Love,
Wendy
Forgive me for posting this here, Betta Mommy that I am, but I feel closer to you all than on the Common Livebearers forum. I have been having trouble keeping these mollies alive in the past 3-4 months. We seem to be mysteriously losing one a month. Now we're down to 3 and a silly, fat orange catfish! These mollies were born in this tank and raised here.
One died a week or so ago and there was one that seemed to really be suffering--laying on the bottom-breathing so heavily and then if I moved the net near him when I thought he was already dead, he would pop up and spin and end up swimming upside down until he shortly collapsed on the gravel again gasping for breath.
I am gratefully on vacation down in sunny Florida for the week with my husband--and well-operating automatic fish feeders feeding my guys up in NY. (I tested them for several weeks to get them used to them and make sure they worked all right). I JUST COULDN'T LEAVE THAT POOR FISH IN ITS MISERY! So I decided to read up on euthanasia on line, went to the drugstore for clove oil (which they didn't have) and ended up buying a package of Alka Seltzer--which worked very well and quickly...but was so hard to do. I feel so bad. He just reallly seemed to be suffering and didn't seem like he was going to recover--also kind of swollen--I couldn't get a close enough view of him (he would swim away) to see if he pineconed.
So I said a prayer and asked the fish to forgive me. I knew I had my fish forum family with me. I still felt awfullly sad--my husband told me he was proud of me because I care so much about my fish....
little fishThanks for listening.
Love,
Wendy
