Sick Fish??

[kezy7]

Hi

I have bought two Synodotis Eupterus over the weekend and have kept them in a quaretine tank.
There is one larger adult and the other is slightly smaller but the smaller one of the two is floating upside down at the surface of the water, I thought that he may had been dead but he still appears to be breathing, his eyes look fairly misty and white but other than that, and the fact that he is just sitting at the top of the tank and only moving slightly when provoked by the other, it seems to look ok.

I have seperated the two using a breading cage but has anyone got any suggestions of what could be wrong with this cat or what I can do from here on, it has been treated with methelyene blue already with no apparent effect.

Any suggestions or ideas about this poor little cat would be very much welcome.

Thanks in advance

Kerry

[corybreed]

Synodontis do not respond well to treatments with dyes. Why did you use Methylene blue? Were there any symptoms? I would do a large water change and hope for the best.

Mark

[kezy7]

Thanks for the reply Corybreed

My husband put the metheleyne blue into the water, he always does it for his chiclids so I thought nothing of it, he usually treats them to relieve stress and get rid of any potential bugs, I think I am fairly new to all of this as it is usually my husband that deals with the fradgile fish.

I thought after posting the message that the treatment may have had something to do with it so we did take as much of the dye out as possible and put some fresh declorinated tap water into it instead.

The larger fish seems to have been ok and he was moved into a different tank whilest we left the sick fish in the hospital tank for observation, however he did die early this morning

it is an unfortunate mastake that occured due to a lack of research and responsability on my part, allowing my husband to bear the responsability but at least we both know now never to treat the cats with dyes again.

Thanks again

Kerry