Rasbora Swims On A Slant Or Horizontal And Does Rolls. Goldfish Just S

[Keithoms]

My Rasbora (one of 6) has today just been swimming on its own at the surface of the tank on a slant or sometimes even horizontally. If he swims down occasionally he will be on a slant. Sometimes he even rolls over.

What is wrong?

And a goldfish, in the same tank (dont complain, just help) has all day been sitting on its own under the filter, just floating there.

I got a catfish today and the goldfish did eat some of the catfish's algae pellets, the Rasbora may have too. I also got some neons today (6)

Please help.

EDIT: His right fin just seems to be sticking out without him using it at all. (Rasbora)
2: Now sometimes it just gives up and floats to the bottom. Few mins later it will swim again.
3: Last night it died.

Did a water check,

Ammonia: 0
pH: 7.5
Nitrate: 5
Nitrite: 5

Moved goldfish to separate bowl.

Immediately did what ended up to be a near 100% water change which brought nitrite to just over 0.

Woke this morning. Goldie is dead. 2 more rasboras are dead. Neons are fine. Remaining rasboras dont look well.


HELP

 

[Keithoms]

Please help??

 

[Miss Wiggle]

well the nitrite will certainly be a problem, a nitrite reading of 5 is enough to kill many fish outright, you'll need to do some immediate water changes to bring this down to an acceptable level (it should be 0, you need to get it to 0.25ppm as a maximum for now).

I take it the tank is new and not properly cycled...... have a read of the link in my sig 'whats cycling' which should explain more.

I appreciate that you have said don't complian baout the mixed coldwater and tropical fish, but it is a problem, by keeping them out of their ideal conditions you weaken their immune systems and this means they are less able to handle things like diseases and poor water. so weather you want people complaining or not the simple fact is that this will not be helping and should be rectified as part of your recovery plan.

Can you give us some more tank details, what size are they, what equipment do you have runnung, was the tank cycled, what fish and how many of each species do you have?

 

[Corleone]

I appreciate that you have said don't complian baout the mixed coldwater and tropical fish, but it is a problem,

I think that got covered in another thread - his goldfish was up for adoption in the buy/sell/swap forum if I'm not mistaken.

At any rate, for short term, it probably would have been better off in the tank than the bowl, at least with some water changes. Being in the bowl is probably what killed it - or rather, the ammonia spike from not having a filter.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

I appreciate that you have said don't complian baout the mixed coldwater and tropical fish, but it is a problem,

I think that got covered in another thread - his goldfish was up for adoption in the buy/sell/swap forum if I'm not mistaken.

At any rate, for short term, it probably would have been better off in the tank than the bowl, at least with some water changes. Being in the bowl is probably what killed it - or rather, the ammonia spike from not having a filter.

didn't spot the other thread.....

 

[Keithoms]

Ok tank is a 60l. Big filter.

That day i had cleaned the filter in old tank water, planted 2 new plants and added the 7 fish.

Tank was cycled.

Sadly goldie is no longer here, so lets protect the existing ones.

Pet shop fobbed us off with melafix. Weve added it to the water anyway.


Nitrite is at 0.5

 

[Hawkins]

Ok tank is a 60l. Big filter.

That day i had cleaned the filter in old tank water, planted 2 new plants and added the 7 fish.

Tank was cycled.

Sadly goldie is no longer here, so lets protect the existing ones.

Pet shop fobbed us off with melafix. Weve added it to the water anyway.


Nitrite is at 0.5

fobbed you off?

if you don't want to buy something they can't force you

 

[Corleone]

Ok tank is a 60l. Big filter.

That day i had cleaned the filter in old tank water, planted 2 new plants and added the 7 fish.

Tank was cycled.

Sadly goldie is no longer here, so lets protect the existing ones.

Pet shop fobbed us off with melafix. Weve added it to the water anyway.


Nitrite is at 0.5

The seven fish might have caused a mini cycle. How long has this been going for?

Any way, .5 is still high - do another big water change. You want to maintain it below .25. Nitrite's not the killer ammonia is, but it's not good, and the lower it is the healthier your fish will be and better able to fight off disease on their own.

 

[Keithoms]

Fobbed off as in my dad went to the fish shop before i woke up to get advice and they sold him melafix to fix everything...