Aulonocara German Red : Swimming on side?

[Rich A.]

All.. any particular reason why my German Red occasionally lists on his
side, even occasionally swimming on his side? Very odd behavior... he's
otherwise active and eats normally. He's been doing time to time pretty much
since a I got him as a juvie, 3 months ago. I only now got around to asking
:)

He's second from left in this photo:

http://home.earthlink.net/~hookem03/images/FishTank/DSC00451.JPG

and on the right in this photo:

http://home.earthlink.net/~hookem03/images/FishTank/DSC00461.JPG

It's almost as if... if he doesn't fight it, he'll float to the top on his
side? any thots?

[RedForeman ©®]

when one of my albinos did that, was told it was parasites.... I can't
remember what med I used, but it did work.. I'll see if I can find the
med... or the post about it..

Mine did a sort of spinning in a small circle one time, then would dart at
the glass, and go from corner to corner several times and eventually would
hit somewhere so hard that it would be semi knocked out and would shortly
recover....

--
RedForeman ©®



"Rich A." > wrote in message
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> All.. any particular reason why my German Red occasionally lists on his
> side, even occasionally swimming on his side? Very odd behavior... he's
> otherwise active and eats normally. He's been doing time to time pretty
much
> since a I got him as a juvie, 3 months ago. I only now got around to
asking
> :)
>
> He's second from left in this photo:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~hookem03/images/FishTank/DSC00451.JPG
>
> and on the right in this photo:
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~hookem03/images/FishTank/DSC00461.JPG
>
> It's almost as if... if he doesn't fight it, he'll float to the top on his
> side? any thots?
>
>