[HASH=55964]#fishmedic[/HASH] @Jay Hemdal
Should have posted earlier but I thought this fish was long past hope. However it is still going and so here goes.
On Tuesday I received a blue spot tamarin wrasse. It arrived upside down and looking mostly dead.
Still hoping it would recover I did a quick acclimation and put it in my sump. I didn't see it after adding and hoped it had buried itself. On Thursday morning i found this:
Again I thought it was dead so I moved it to the hospital tank where it sparked back to life. Thus has started the pattern of it appearing dead(or very close). Sparking to life for a few minutes and repeat every few hours.
Just now it was doing this:
I believe it has severe swim bladder issues. Is there anything I can do or is it most ethical to stop the suffering?
Its eyes still appear alert and it kind of seems to try and eat but lacks the ability to get to the food. I have syringe fed it a corn syrup and frozen copepod mix.
Should have posted earlier but I thought this fish was long past hope. However it is still going and so here goes.
On Tuesday I received a blue spot tamarin wrasse. It arrived upside down and looking mostly dead.
Still hoping it would recover I did a quick acclimation and put it in my sump. I didn't see it after adding and hoped it had buried itself. On Thursday morning i found this:
Again I thought it was dead so I moved it to the hospital tank where it sparked back to life. Thus has started the pattern of it appearing dead(or very close). Sparking to life for a few minutes and repeat every few hours.
Just now it was doing this:
Tamarin wrasse swim bladder issues
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I believe it has severe swim bladder issues. Is there anything I can do or is it most ethical to stop the suffering?
Its eyes still appear alert and it kind of seems to try and eat but lacks the ability to get to the food. I have syringe fed it a corn syrup and frozen copepod mix.
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