zozo
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But not sick enough to get away constantly.. 
Got a Oreichtys cosuatis girl having trouble, probably a swim bladder damage or infection.. It is constantly capsizing to her right flank, laying on the bottom a lot.. But these fish are somehow darn smart and as soon as they smell a rat dive into the smallest nooks and crannies.. And the thing is i got a lot of them with all the DW i used. She definitely is not ok, but not weak enough to escape, now she hiding in the cave, i can wait an hour and she capsizes out again. I leave the nets in the tank so they get kinda used to their presents, but this doesn't realy work. As soon as i even move a net an inch all of them smell the rat again and non of them are to find. If I move away from the tank, all are back on stage like nothing happened with in a minute only the sick one, she kinda feels she's weak and in danger if she comes out the hiding she immediately looks for another safe spot in some dense planting laying on her side. And if i try to catch her then suddenly she lightning fast again and disappears in some hole in the woods..
Aquascaping and creating complex scapes is fun, but this is the down side..
Already have a quarantine sick bay tank prepared for her with some antibiotics, in case it's an infection. so i still might be a chance to safe her. But she doesn't even let me get close and drives the whole tank nuts to get her. Now i can wait till she is to weak to escape, but then probably also to weak to survive..
How do you get around situations like this? Are there some techniques i didn't think of?
I could treat the whole tank, but i'm not realy familiar with antibiotics and (fortunately) very little experience with sick fish. But reading about it, it think it's not realy a good idea to treat the whole tank with antibiotics, the rest of the fish are in perfect health (still)..
Got a Oreichtys cosuatis girl having trouble, probably a swim bladder damage or infection.. It is constantly capsizing to her right flank, laying on the bottom a lot.. But these fish are somehow darn smart and as soon as they smell a rat dive into the smallest nooks and crannies.. And the thing is i got a lot of them with all the DW i used. She definitely is not ok, but not weak enough to escape, now she hiding in the cave, i can wait an hour and she capsizes out again. I leave the nets in the tank so they get kinda used to their presents, but this doesn't realy work. As soon as i even move a net an inch all of them smell the rat again and non of them are to find. If I move away from the tank, all are back on stage like nothing happened with in a minute only the sick one, she kinda feels she's weak and in danger if she comes out the hiding she immediately looks for another safe spot in some dense planting laying on her side. And if i try to catch her then suddenly she lightning fast again and disappears in some hole in the woods..
Aquascaping and creating complex scapes is fun, but this is the down side..
Already have a quarantine sick bay tank prepared for her with some antibiotics, in case it's an infection. so i still might be a chance to safe her. But she doesn't even let me get close and drives the whole tank nuts to get her. Now i can wait till she is to weak to escape, but then probably also to weak to survive..
How do you get around situations like this? Are there some techniques i didn't think of?
I could treat the whole tank, but i'm not realy familiar with antibiotics and (fortunately) very little experience with sick fish. But reading about it, it think it's not realy a good idea to treat the whole tank with antibiotics, the rest of the fish are in perfect health (still)..
Till some s%$^7 hits the fan..
