Question for FISH owners....

krunchykrome

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Dec 28, 2003
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I have this one fish and I'll sit there and stare at it, and it will kinda roll over on it's back or upsides down, and it will float to the top of the tank and stay there like that for a good 10 min. Then it'll go back to normal and swim...then it'll do it again. Whats going on?
 

Eli

Super Moderator | Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
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Feed it a frozen pea, if it will eat.

It might get better.

Or maybe that's for Betas......
 

DaiShan

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Jul 5, 2001
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Fresh or salt water? If it's salt water, I've found that my fish go near the top when the salinity is too high, and stay near the heater when the ph is off. When I came back from school I noticed some of my fish staying near the top so I figured that my dad had let the salinity get too high, so I check it, and it is .39 on the specific gravity meter (think dead sea) so I drain out about 5-10 gallons and pump fresh water into the corner of the tank, well long story short I did it too fast, the one fish went down to the bottom of the tank then swam as fast as he cold towards the top, made it halfway out of the water and literally died in the air, and just sunk when he came down. Craziest thing I've ever seen from a fish heh. Oh if its freshwater, yeah the fish is on his way out, if its just a gold fish flush him, don't want him around healthy fish, if its something a little more expensive put together a quarantine tank.