Twitchy
Active Member
Hello everyone. Tuesday I have gotten my latest batch of 3 Gem tangs in from @NYAquatic They all arrived large and fat, I ramped them up to 1.75ppm Copperpower over the next day, before adding them to the 650 gallon which is currently at 1.75ppm. everyone has been happy except this guy. I'm not sure if he is suffering from some form of neurological damage from shipping, or some type of disease. No outward physical symptoms beyond his erratic behavior.
From the get go during the day he struggles to swim, staying close to the bottom of the tank, bumping into rocks, walls, getting tossed about by currents, he kept putting his nose in one of the holes in the eggcrate I was using to keep everyone separated when in the smaller tanks. I was hoping when I added him to the large tank to continue QT he would get better with more space and food to graze on. Unfortunately he has yet to show any interest in food.
At night he is a whole different animal. from the moment of lights out he goes to town swimming... all night long constantly... up down back and forth. (see attached video) I have never seen anything like it. he does it all the way until sunrise when he eventually slips off back to his corner where he stares at the wall all day, he doesn't really hide, he does seem to turn toward me when I come up to the tank, he also seems to move out of the way when other fish come up to check him out. He has done it for a couple of days now, without any improvement, so today I have pulled him back into the 55 gallon hospital for more intense treatment. (pretty easy to catch with such odd behavior) current plan is basically throwing all the drugs at him, metro, pazi, switching to CP instead of copper. Avoiding the antibiotics at this point, unless it could be bacterial? Not sure what to do at this point.
Anyone ever see anything like this?
From the get go during the day he struggles to swim, staying close to the bottom of the tank, bumping into rocks, walls, getting tossed about by currents, he kept putting his nose in one of the holes in the eggcrate I was using to keep everyone separated when in the smaller tanks. I was hoping when I added him to the large tank to continue QT he would get better with more space and food to graze on. Unfortunately he has yet to show any interest in food.
At night he is a whole different animal. from the moment of lights out he goes to town swimming... all night long constantly... up down back and forth. (see attached video) I have never seen anything like it. he does it all the way until sunrise when he eventually slips off back to his corner where he stares at the wall all day, he doesn't really hide, he does seem to turn toward me when I come up to the tank, he also seems to move out of the way when other fish come up to check him out. He has done it for a couple of days now, without any improvement, so today I have pulled him back into the 55 gallon hospital for more intense treatment. (pretty easy to catch with such odd behavior) current plan is basically throwing all the drugs at him, metro, pazi, switching to CP instead of copper. Avoiding the antibiotics at this point, unless it could be bacterial? Not sure what to do at this point.
Anyone ever see anything like this?
