Ill Fry

[Styx]

I have a fry that seems to have lost its ability to swim. It has nothing to do with overfeeding or such. So don’t even suggest anything like that.

It’s almost 2 ½ months old and it was attacked a little while ago, then it got fungus, got over that, now it floats up at the top of the water. It did this for a while, but kept eating a little, so I thought it would recover. Well, now when it tries to swim to the bottom, it spins. Hasn’t eaten for days now, little over a half a week. Fins are clamped, fish is pale, gills don't close all the way, but they're not red or puffy. Water is 80 degrees and cleaned every day. I’ve tried treating it with anti-bacterial medication, tetracycline, anti-fungus, methelyne blue, everything I have (one at a time) to see if it’s had any effect. Nothing has worked.

THERE IS NOTHING ON ITS BODY AT ALL. I have inspected this fish for anything on it's body and there is NOTHING THERE.

I’m out of ideas. I don’t know what’s wrong with it and I don’t know what to do.

It seems another fry has come down with the same thing and they have not been in contact with one another since this happened. I'm frustrated and very angry that I don't know what to do.

EDIT – There is another key thing about both of these fish. Each has one eye that points down and one eye that points up. Neither protrudes in any way; they just look in different directions.

 

[Joby]

That sounds really perplexing. Maybe there are some neurological problems there

 

[xanthianacid]

Was it always like this but you couldn't tell maybe? A birth defect? With a normal betta birth average, a hundred+ I'm sure there must be some that would be abnormal. Sometimes if it was natural, these babies may have died out in the wild.

 

[Synirr]

Maybe there are some neurological problems there

I agree, it sounds like something neurological... could be a birth defect of some sort that has just now reared its ugly head

 

[Styx]

That's what my sister suggested. But if it is neurological or a birth defect, it's something recent, because this fish wasn't like this before. I hand feed every single one of them, so I see them all and notice any strange behavior, plus it's been under observation since the attack.

I think I'll stop all treatments and keep feeding it, see what happens. *Shrugs* It's pointless to keep wasting expensive meds that do nothing.

Yeah, though, it's very strange. No idea what to do about it.