I picked up some fish on my way home from vacation (~9hrs drive). I made a small transport system out of sterilite containers and a battery-operated aerator. But, I didn't have enough room for a four-line wrasse because he was from a different tank. In hindsight, I should have just acclimated him to the one container that only had two cleaner shrimps, but I didn't, I just had the guy put him in a large bag with lots of water.
My thinking was, a 1" fish in 2 gallons of water will be able to live for several hours....they get worse than that after being caught. Well, 9 hrs turned to 16 hrs because of traffic and severe fog. I aerated the water for 15 minutes on my first gas stop, and then for 1.5 hrs when I needed to rest.
When I got home, the only fish with stress symptoms was the wrasse. I placed them all in separate quarantine containers (still with their original water), and the wrasse started swirling. He eventually stopped, and was just lying on the bottom curled and breathing heavy. The curled position was from osmoregulatory dysfunction, so I immediately began a drip acclimation with RO/DI to lower the salinity, and added some stress coat since I saw his slime was sloughing off.
That was two days ago, today he was still lying on the bottom breathing heavy. Has anyone had a fish recover from this? And how did you help them out? I am thinking a bath of antibiotics might be in order, because his immune system is going to be not functioning very well....Anyone have suggestions?
Thanks,
My thinking was, a 1" fish in 2 gallons of water will be able to live for several hours....they get worse than that after being caught. Well, 9 hrs turned to 16 hrs because of traffic and severe fog. I aerated the water for 15 minutes on my first gas stop, and then for 1.5 hrs when I needed to rest.
When I got home, the only fish with stress symptoms was the wrasse. I placed them all in separate quarantine containers (still with their original water), and the wrasse started swirling. He eventually stopped, and was just lying on the bottom curled and breathing heavy. The curled position was from osmoregulatory dysfunction, so I immediately began a drip acclimation with RO/DI to lower the salinity, and added some stress coat since I saw his slime was sloughing off.
That was two days ago, today he was still lying on the bottom breathing heavy. Has anyone had a fish recover from this? And how did you help them out? I am thinking a bath of antibiotics might be in order, because his immune system is going to be not functioning very well....Anyone have suggestions?
Thanks,
