The
PAROSPHROMENUS PROJECT

The
PAROSPHROMENUS
PROJECT

Re: one fish sick and others healthy

#3681
Jacob
Participant

Seems like the fifth fish is alright today, I put in frozen bloodworms and they all swam around, the fifth one wasn’t as much a part of the group and going after the food like the other four but still looks healthy compared to yesterday. Pretty active, seemingly trying to nip at things and not as slow and didn’t scratch itself though I only watched for ten minutes.
Is scratching and the other symptoms possibly a sign of stress (maybe from being bullied) that may not indicate a disease, or is it some disease that comes and goes and eventually gets much worse? Of course there’s no way for you to know the answer but it is strange that the fish seems much better today. Not sure it actually got any frozen bloodworms, will see what happens later today when I put in bbs. The body and fins look ok, so far.
The medicine you mentioned, I couldn’t find it for sale, I wonder if it’s in any common fish medicines here and if there are some other things to get just in case, to make sure I’m ready for whatever this situation turns out to be.