lavathebetta
Fish Fanatic
they were fine yesterday morning when i fed them, and i came downstairs today and found one dead and one barely able to swim. his body is curved, he can't swim and just scoots around the bottom of the tank and he is gasping. i've been treating the tank with paraguard for 2 of the other fish in there, these endlers had been through paraguard courses and were totally fine. the tank is 10 gallons planted with the aquaclear 30 on it. i had one fish die that was previously in the main tank but was moved to a hospital tank for a bacterial infection (that fish passed in the hospital tank). they are fed new life spectrum pellets. the dead one has a little bit of a white "bubble" on the top of his head, but im not sure if that is just him decomposing. tankmates are 2 corydoras (will be getting more, one just recently passed)
i'm testing my water rn and will edit and update the post, just wanted to post this so that if anyone knows what is is then they could let me know, idk if the one who is alive is going to make it, but just so i have the knowledge in the future.
edit: .5 ammonia (adding in some prime to deal with this, likely caused by the dead one decomposing), 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate (which is weird, but my cycle may have had a little crash due to me putting some antibiotics in this tank recently, explained in the comments but one of my fish had a bacterial infection)
i'm testing my water rn and will edit and update the post, just wanted to post this so that if anyone knows what is is then they could let me know, idk if the one who is alive is going to make it, but just so i have the knowledge in the future.
edit: .5 ammonia (adding in some prime to deal with this, likely caused by the dead one decomposing), 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate (which is weird, but my cycle may have had a little crash due to me putting some antibiotics in this tank recently, explained in the comments but one of my fish had a bacterial infection)
Last edited: