Today i bought a snowflake eel and added it to my clouded eels tank which is at a salinity of .2.
I drip acclimated him for an hour and added him to the tank. I didnt measure the salinity of the water in the bag so i do not know how much of a shock it was.
I know these fish move out to the ocean as they get older but this one is only 10".
He seems to have labored breathing and to be rolling over a bit. I know eels breath heavy but if i breath at the same rate as him i would hyperventilate so i assume he is in rather poor shape. But when he pokes his head out of the cave he may stop breathing for a moment and he is moving around inside of the rock work .
The eel has been in the tank 11 hours now.
Is there anything i can do?
Should i put him in a bucket of brackish ?
Should i throw him in with my mudskipper?
Or just leave it?
The tank read abt 5ppm nitrate but i suppose there could be ammonia since theres a few dead ghost shrimp in the tank. The other eel is breathing normally though. I am running carbon and prime to detoxify possible ammonia in the short term.
I drip acclimated him for an hour and added him to the tank. I didnt measure the salinity of the water in the bag so i do not know how much of a shock it was.
I know these fish move out to the ocean as they get older but this one is only 10".
He seems to have labored breathing and to be rolling over a bit. I know eels breath heavy but if i breath at the same rate as him i would hyperventilate so i assume he is in rather poor shape. But when he pokes his head out of the cave he may stop breathing for a moment and he is moving around inside of the rock work .
The eel has been in the tank 11 hours now.
Is there anything i can do?
Should i put him in a bucket of brackish ?
Should i throw him in with my mudskipper?
Or just leave it?
The tank read abt 5ppm nitrate but i suppose there could be ammonia since theres a few dead ghost shrimp in the tank. The other eel is breathing normally though. I am running carbon and prime to detoxify possible ammonia in the short term.