Black moor resting by heater
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:04:04 GMT, "cindys"
wrote:
"Koi-lo" wrote in message
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"cindys" wrote in message
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"Koi-lo" wrote in message
That will not cure swim-bladder problems. All it does is put a
Band-Aid
on
a skin cancer. The problem is STILL there and will resurface once fed
again.
Is there no cure at all?
Not that I'm aware of. It seems to be caused more by an internal
deformity
of the body than any dietary or bacterial problem. GF after all, should
look like Shubunkins or Comets (their natural shape), not hunchback as the
fancies ones do. This is a genetic deformity that also deforms their
internal organs, the swim bladder being one of them. I have never once
had
one of these *normal* shaped GF develop a swim bladder problem.
Please accept that he may not survive no matter what you do.
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My little fish died. So, now we have only 1 fish in the aquarium. I have
been doing partial water changes every day, but the water doesn't seem to
look any cleaner (it's still all discolored from the tetracycline). My
husband wants to put the remaining fish in the 1 gallon aquarium (only long
enough to allow him to scrub out the bigger aquarium). I told him that I
thought it would be too stressful for the fish and also that any good
bacteria that had grown on the gravel in the meantime would be destroyed. He
also wants to get another fish ASAP, and he thinks I'm crazy to insist that
we quarantine any new fish for 2 weeks. In truth, even if we had quarantined
the current fish for 2 weeks, the situation with the other fish would have
happened. We've had this new fish for more than 2 weeks, and and he/she
still seems perfectly healthy. My husband thinks the reason the first fish
died was because we "killed him with kindness," and told me that if I hadn't
been insistent on putting the tetracycline in the tank, he would have still
been alive. Then, alternately, he will say that it was his own fault the
fish died because he overfed him (I don't think he did really overfeed him.
He put a few extra fish flakes in the tank a few times). We're just very
distraught because we had the original fish in a 1 gallon tank, did
everything wrong, including not neutralizing the chlorine in the tap water,
and the fish survived beautifully for over a year. Then, we moved him into a
bigger tank with supposedly optimal conditions, and now he's dead.
So, what's next? I didn't want to get any other fish for a while. My husband
told me as far as he's concerned, the quarantine is unnecessary. He says he
plans to go to the pet store on Sunday (5 days from now), get a new fish,
and dump him/her in the tank (after allowing him/her to acclimate to the
water temperature for several minutes first). How and when should we
introduce a new fish? (I agree in this particular instance that the 14-day
quarantine may be unwarranted because our current fish and the new fish
could easily have been together in the tank at the pet store).
Best regards,
---Cindy S.
who wears the pants in your house??
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