jayyy_boiii
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I have a 3 yr old Rainbow shark. I believe it's a male but not 100% positive. He is refusing to eat unless handfed via a small syringe. I noticed this about 2 days ago when he was out in the tank spinning in a corner. I thought whirly disease or swim bladder but he is not visibly bloated and he spins in a sort of barrel roll fashion with his nose slightly up. As soon as i noticed I moved him to a breeder box and began doing daily soaks in methylane blue and malachite green. I started hand feeding him ground vegitables and ground high protein flakes. I don't feed tubifex. I notice no improvement in the past two days of monitering and soaks. If anything it looks to be worse. He spends the entire day twirling in the corner of the breeder box. He has no physical injuries other than a small sore on the outside of his gill. He also has been pushing bubbles out through his gills? There aren't any bubbles in his eyes or fins that I can see so I don't think it's GBD. Last I checked my tank levels were good, except for phosphates. None of my other fish are acting off. I did add a small school of lemon tetras a month or two back but they all eventually died off for some reason. I had 6 of them and all of them died within a week. Any ideas what could be going on??
Update:
Did an epsom salt soak, didn't do ****. He doesn't appear in distress but i'm probably going to euthanize him
Update:
Did an epsom salt soak, didn't do ****. He doesn't appear in distress but i'm probably going to euthanize him
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