swimming in circles, nose to the bottom

Hello--yes I tested the water and it is fine. zthe spinning fish is still
spinning and still hanging in there, even today. Here's another question...I
have a flying fox in this tank, that we removed from our large tank because
the other fish were attacking it and one of it's tail fins was injured (looks
like it was bitten off). We found the fish swimming at the top of the tank
with it's nose up, and it would not go down. We finally got a good look at
it and it was injured. It is still alive, but it seems to be losing it's
gold stripe. It seems rather sad, too...doesn't swim much, whereas before it
was a zoomer. I don't know what to do for him.


dc wrote:
Thank you for your input. If it's a fungal infection, is there
anything you can do to help the fish? It's still alive after 2 days

Not if it's Ichthyophoniasis; there are no reliable treatments and the
disease is resistant to most anti-fungal treatments.

Chances are it is not Ichthyophoniasis. I would caution against assuming it
is without observing a range of other symptoms. Fungus is a word used far
too haphazardly in aquaria.

Like I said it can be due to anything--bacteria, TB, fungus, parasites,
injury, toxic shock, etc. Without any other symptoms there is no way to
even guess at a diagnosis.

If you are unable to isolate the affected fish and unwilling to remove it,
then your only reasonable recourse may be to use aquarium salt to reduce
the osmotic stress on the sick fish. If the condition is do to injury or
some other minor insult than lowering the stress level of the fish may be
enough to help it recover... maybe.

Usually when a fish is in this condition with no obvious causes there is
little you can do to bring it back to health.

Have you tested your water yet?

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