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02-07-2004, 10:48 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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 |  fish is bent!! please help
hi there.. well i have a 30 gal fresh tank with a clown knife in it.. i guess the clown knife got too big and would sit in the corner of the tank.. no he has an "S" bend to his body and cant swim very fast anymore.. Is there anything in can do for him?
i just bought a 72 gal bowfront and put him in that now he has plenty of room , but stil has the big bend in his spine.. PLEASE HELP SAVE MY FISH!!
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50 Gal With Curshed coal substrate and live rock. 2 65W PC lights, Skimmer, waterfall filter
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02-08-2004, 06:42 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Marion, IN,Indiana
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
hmmm, i have seen fish with birth defects, i have had some of mine with bent spines, but havent herd of them just getting one, but you never know
as Matt said, could you post a pic so we can see
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02-08-2004, 11:46 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
yea ill post a pic soon.. dont have one taken yet.. now he just kind of floats near the top by the filter. it kind of looks like he just got stuck one day.. when he was in smaller tank he would be in the corner of the tank and sit like that most of the day.. since he is about 13" long i just think it became permanant.. not sure how long he will live he is getting slowr and cant catch his food. | |
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02-09-2004, 09:47 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
no these picture are not the fish swimming . it is a permanent bend and he moves real slow now | |
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02-09-2004, 09:48 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
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02-09-2004, 09:49 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
last one | |
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02-10-2004, 01:47 AM
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| | Pajama Cardinal
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   | Re: fish is bent!! please help
i found this a s shaped bend they call it mechanacial (injury from a net and so on), a vertical bend would be from disease. it could possibly be from being bent in the tank it popped vertebrae in its spine bent spine
they list fish tubercloses on the bottom of the article but i still think its the mechanical injury but heres a site on fish tb if you want to read up on it fish tb
im not sure if theres a cure or a way to fix it but i will keep looking _________ karla  75 gall, 80 lbs sand, 110 lb lr, 10k pcs, atinics, emperor 400, prizm skimmer, hagen and maxi jet powerheads | |
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02-11-2004, 08:01 AM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
hey thanks for the help.. ij ust feel sorry for him casue he has a very hard time eating.. unfortunatly he only eats feeder fish and has to sneak up on them now.. | |
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02-18-2004, 01:54 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
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| Re: fish is bent!! please help
well he finally died.. bummer too had him about 2 years. i think he was just to slow to swim after feeder fish and would not eat pellets.. my thanks to all who tried to hlep
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