HELP invigorating my fish please.?
Theres a bluegill i found thats 3 inches in a dried up pond. i brought him home and put him with my 3 inch oscars. sometime i noticed a cut on his stomach so i moved him to a tank with 3 two inch catfish and a bunch of toddler bluegills. now he just sits there and dosn't drink and he wouldn't eat or swim around in the other tank any. its been 2 or 3 weeks since he's been in a container so i figured he'd be used to it by now. i put some blue stuff in that said it help repair open wounds would that be enough? also my mom said she saw a catfish tearing at the wound so i'm not certain what to do. help plz
u should take him to the vet fast
Try some Stress Coat. It is available at Wal-mart and most fish stores. It is possible that the fishes slime coating is gone or lacking. Essential electrolytes necessary for osmoregulation are lost through breaks that may go on in the skin and slime coat, causing dangerous stress. Open wounds and abrasion caused by handling and netting are readily attacked by disease organisms, resulting in further stress and disease. Every fish has a instinctive mucoprotein or "slime" coating covering its skin and scales. The slime coating is the fish's first line of defense against infection.
Answers: put it in a tank by it self i am certain it will heal on it s own
