CPD with clamped fins.
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I am the proud new owner of 7 CPD. On the whole they seem to be settling well into their new 15 gallon home. One of them arrived home (an hrs drive) not looking too happy. After they got in the tank she was looking stressed and tiered with clamped fins, sometimes resting on the bottom. I thought she might not make it through the night but she had improved a little in the morning. However her fins are still clamped and the back end droops as she swims making it hard for her to swim. She doesn’t seem on deaths door but is not very lively. Sometimes she swims with the other fish but often hangs out quietly on her own. Any ideas what’s wrong? Should I treat her or just leave her alone to rest and hope she picks up?
Congratulations on your new fish! Sorry to hear that the one isn’t doing so well though.
I detest the use of chemicals in my tanks and treat most of my fish ailments with water changes and live foods.
If it wasn’t for the part about, “the back end droops as she swims making it hard for her to swim”, I say she just needed to re-coupe from the stress of moving.
Dennis
Thanks, I don’t trust meds either. She does a little burst of swimming once in a wile and looks almost normal but for the clamped fins, the effort seems to make her tired though. At first she would actually sit on the bottom of the tank but today I haven’t seen her do that, she just hangs out in a quiet spot for a while with her tail drooping.
Just monitor really. My gut feeling says the fish will die but I sincerely hope not. Good water changes and no sudden changes.
I honestly thought that she would be dead the first morning and got up early to take the body out of the tank before my husband saw (he’s more squeamish than me) but was surprised to see some improvement. Today she is swimming around the tank much more but still has the droop tail.
The CPD have been in the LFS in a bare tank eating flake food for a couple of months now so I think they have been under too much stress plus most of them have been sold so the ones left were not the first pick. I also ended up with one that seems to have swim bladder trouble, I have a feeling that one will die in the long run. I saw that one in the tank before and was trying to avoid it but they are so small it was hard to keep track when the guy was getting them out of the tank. He also got one tangled up in the net rather awkwardly so maybe the droopy one was injured. The store already offered to exchange the sick two for me but I don’t really want to put them through the stress of another tank move, which is bound to finish them off, so I think I’ll just take my chances.
It’s been my experience with swim bladder problems that they very often grow out of it. Every once in a while, I’ll have a fry that has the problem. I put them into a separate tank as I don’t want to sell them. Right now that tank has 3 males and a single female that look perfect in every way. If I’m not mistaken, they are all over 12 months old.
Fingers crossed that your fish will all turn out OK.
Dennis
Thats good to know, the little guy is hopping around the tank pretty happily, so you never know. Bad news this morning the one with the droopy tail is dead but the part I’m more worried about is two of the others have a clamped tail now. They still look healthy, still swimming well but it worries me, can’t be a good thing.
Just an update, all the fish developed a clamped tail and three more died, two are looking all better again and coloring up nicely, they seem to be a male and a female at least. A third one still looks a little iffy, It is swimming around with the others but still has the clamped tail and is a bit thin. I don’t know if it was the stress of changing tanks or if they got some type of infection or something. I acclimated them slowly and tested ammonia and nitrites (both 0).
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