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furry plant grower
I'm having an emergency and need help now. A greedy tiger barb has taken in the food of its buddies (1 cube mysys shrimp).
Now it is struggling at the surface, looks like some kind of seizure. Colour turned dusky but all its fins flared.
Any advise?
Warm regards,
Lawrence Lee
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
Philippians 4:8
furry plant grower
It's dead.
Warm regards,
Lawrence Lee
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
Philippians 4:8
hmm...quite an unfortunate incident.. i guess the frozen cube was too cold to handle
probably next time you wanna defroze them into fine bits first before feeding
Artificial Intelligence
It's choking, Gurami. Oh dear, I'm too late.
Something about the water & the fishes that calms me down.
Sometimes I wonder if fishes know that they have eaten enough? I have some ember tetras who just gorges on the feed available until you can see that their stomach is so damn big!
Then have to isolate them away from the food so that the slower ones can feed...
haaa... my 2 dwarf puffers got huge round bellies that my friends refused to believe they are dwarf puffers when they saw them
furry plant grower
Ok, now that the nasty task of removal and consolation of owner is done...
What can be done for future cases of this sort? I think performing the Heimlich Manoevre on fishes this size is not recommended?
I wonder what is the cause of death. Choking? hypothermia? seizure?
Warm regards,
Lawrence Lee
brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
Philippians 4:8
sorry for your loss.
I think for your case, since the fish in distress is quite small, there was pretty much nothing you could do, I think it died of choking rather than hypothermia.
I once had a polyterus palmas polli (?) the normal, easily available type, it swallowed a sinking catfish tablet, and the tablet got stucked in the fish's mouth/throat. I netted it, and pulled up the tablet with a pair of pincers. Few days later.. it died.
Moral of the story, prevention is better than cure.
When feeding frozen food, put it in a small net, run it under the tap for a while, when the food is sufficiently defrosted, dip the net into the tank to distribute the food. Who knows, such feeding method may accustome your fishes to your net, and you may have an easier time netting them next time keke.
It does!Originally Posted by bossteck
Now my fishes are no longer scared of the net as I feed tubifex worms using the net...
Now that's a good tip!!It does!
Now my fishes are no longer scared of the net as I feed tubifex worms using the net...
Cheers,
I have dwarf cichlids in my tanks! Do you?
BTW, fishes can't choke to death. They breathe by moving water through their gills.
BC
Hi,
I thought they breathe by letting water in through their mouth and out their gills? So if its mouth cavity is completely blocked, the fish would struggle to breathe, but i guess since they do not have a windpipe, the process would be a long and painful one as water can still seep through whatever is filling up their mouth area.
- eric
Hey All,
I have a pair of Golden Red-eye tetras, not sure if its the exact name, cant seem to find the scientific name on these either, got them from Ben's Shop, at Tiong Bahru.
These 2 are really really greedy, they chomp down on flake food like drinking water. Their belly will swell to about twice its normal size, and i can see difficulty in swimming, total obesity.
Last nite, one of them turn upside down, couldnt stable itself upright, like some sort of seizure. Thinking to myself, it be dead today, but this morning, saw it swimming around healthy.
I guess i have to isolate these 2 while feeding.
Is there a method to follow?
They probably gulped too much air while feeding on the floating flakes, so causing an imbalance to their swim bladder...
Maybe you want to try to get the flakes to sink? And see if they will still turn upside down?
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