MKCindy
Wed, 15th Apr 2009, 09:15 AM
This is so sad, I don't want to post a picture unless I have to. My baby clown disappeared Sunday morning. He is small, so that is not unusual until he didn't show up to eat that night.
The last time I saw him was at morning feeding by my weir overflow. It has a grid to keep anything from slipping through, but he did, then I have my lines capped in the refuge to reduce air bubbles, so that is where I found him. Stuck in the end cap in a water falls.
One eye was bulging, the other looked shrunk in. (the swelling has gone down now) His tail was gone and everything from his last stripe down was gone. He was very excited to get back in the tank, except my female clown was not nice and he was swimming in circles, so I put him in a floating breeder tank. That was fine till the light came on in the morning. He was getting to hot and leaning, so I set up a quarantine tank.
I added some treatment to relieve stress, but slowly his tail began rotting off. (best I can describe it) He no longer has a third stripe at all. His spine is sticking out, but he is alive. I have not seen him eat. Don't recommend a swirly ride, cuz I can't do it! He was looking really lethargic yesterday, so I got my nerve up, and on the way to the swirly bird, he became very active...U turn, he is not giving up, so neither am I.
Last night he was laying down so I decided I had nothing to lose and tried some Metro+ for Lateral Line Disease. Right or wrong I don't know, but he is more active this morning and no worse. I did a 50% water change w/established tank water. I can re-treat with Metro+ every 24 hours and they recommend water changes daily.
So any suggestions that do not involve additional water rides! Do you think it will grow back? I know a tail will, but a body too?
The last time I saw him was at morning feeding by my weir overflow. It has a grid to keep anything from slipping through, but he did, then I have my lines capped in the refuge to reduce air bubbles, so that is where I found him. Stuck in the end cap in a water falls.
One eye was bulging, the other looked shrunk in. (the swelling has gone down now) His tail was gone and everything from his last stripe down was gone. He was very excited to get back in the tank, except my female clown was not nice and he was swimming in circles, so I put him in a floating breeder tank. That was fine till the light came on in the morning. He was getting to hot and leaning, so I set up a quarantine tank.
I added some treatment to relieve stress, but slowly his tail began rotting off. (best I can describe it) He no longer has a third stripe at all. His spine is sticking out, but he is alive. I have not seen him eat. Don't recommend a swirly ride, cuz I can't do it! He was looking really lethargic yesterday, so I got my nerve up, and on the way to the swirly bird, he became very active...U turn, he is not giving up, so neither am I.
Last night he was laying down so I decided I had nothing to lose and tried some Metro+ for Lateral Line Disease. Right or wrong I don't know, but he is more active this morning and no worse. I did a 50% water change w/established tank water. I can re-treat with Metro+ every 24 hours and they recommend water changes daily.
So any suggestions that do not involve additional water rides! Do you think it will grow back? I know a tail will, but a body too?