Hey guys, i'm new to the forum, so plz bear with me if i do anything stupid 
anyway, i have 3 med oscars, a pictus cat, and a pleco in my aquarium...and recently, my ammonia lvls were skyrocketing due to the feeder fish i feed my oscars, so i had to clean out the tank...it was GROSS
anyway, in the process of doing so, i used a net to get all my fish out, and the pictus got caught, in the net, and i held him with a paper towel, untangled, and pull off the net...took about 30 secs, then i put him into a spare tank filled with new water (treated with amquel, and also stresscoat)
when i dropped him in, he wasn't moving, and was breathing pretty fast. first thought was: oh no, he's dead. but then slowly, he recovered, and i went on cleaning out the tank. After i finished cleaning, and readding water, treating it, and adjusting water temperature, i went to try to put in the pictus.
all the oscars were laying calmly on the bottom of the spare tank, but the pictus was frozen solid, and twitching. I got him with a bigger net, and transfered him ASAP into the main tank. He floated around twirling as he sank to the bottom, and was still twitching. I had to flip him over with the net cause he landed at the bottom upside-down...now I really thought he wasn't going to make it.
to my surprise, a minute later, his gills popped open rigidly, but he was breathing! breathing intervals were very scattered and not rhythmic. 5 minutes passes, and still no movement. A few minutes later he twitches, and starts to swim...and swim, and swim until he hit the wall of the tank, and still, he swam... i thought it was one of those "pre-death" reflex things, but i guess i was wrong b/c he calmed down after a bit, and 10 more minutes later, he was swimming aorund fine. Now, i'm almost sure he has recovered, but he has this large white spot in the center of his eye, and he swims around crashing into things.
Is he blind? or is that white spot something else? anyone have suggestions? he was perfectly fine b4 the water change. This was an extemely scary experience for me, and I don't ever want to go through this again.
Please help me out guys!
Thanks in advance
anyway, i have 3 med oscars, a pictus cat, and a pleco in my aquarium...and recently, my ammonia lvls were skyrocketing due to the feeder fish i feed my oscars, so i had to clean out the tank...it was GROSS
anyway, in the process of doing so, i used a net to get all my fish out, and the pictus got caught, in the net, and i held him with a paper towel, untangled, and pull off the net...took about 30 secs, then i put him into a spare tank filled with new water (treated with amquel, and also stresscoat)
when i dropped him in, he wasn't moving, and was breathing pretty fast. first thought was: oh no, he's dead. but then slowly, he recovered, and i went on cleaning out the tank. After i finished cleaning, and readding water, treating it, and adjusting water temperature, i went to try to put in the pictus.
all the oscars were laying calmly on the bottom of the spare tank, but the pictus was frozen solid, and twitching. I got him with a bigger net, and transfered him ASAP into the main tank. He floated around twirling as he sank to the bottom, and was still twitching. I had to flip him over with the net cause he landed at the bottom upside-down...now I really thought he wasn't going to make it.
to my surprise, a minute later, his gills popped open rigidly, but he was breathing! breathing intervals were very scattered and not rhythmic. 5 minutes passes, and still no movement. A few minutes later he twitches, and starts to swim...and swim, and swim until he hit the wall of the tank, and still, he swam... i thought it was one of those "pre-death" reflex things, but i guess i was wrong b/c he calmed down after a bit, and 10 more minutes later, he was swimming aorund fine. Now, i'm almost sure he has recovered, but he has this large white spot in the center of his eye, and he swims around crashing into things.
Is he blind? or is that white spot something else? anyone have suggestions? he was perfectly fine b4 the water change. This was an extemely scary experience for me, and I don't ever want to go through this again.
Please help me out guys!
Thanks in advance
