1 of my rosy barbs seems to think s/he is a circus act. S/he started about 2 weeks ago flipping, spinning, twisting, spiralling, tumbling, somersaulting about 90% of the time and only swimming around normally about 10% of the time. The 90% of the time s/he is acting up, it goes anywhere from a slow pirouette to a frantic kamikaze Roll of Death.
By the time my fish salesman got done laughing at the video footage, he said it looks like a neurological problem. Has anyone else had a fish develop this problem? Does anyone know what it is and if there is any cure? On one hand I hate to flush the pool little thing just because s/he flips out all the time, but then again, I also can't image going thru life with your body a constant uncontrollable whirlwind around you. I don't even know how s/he manages to consume enough food to survive, but when this started about 2 weeks ago I thought for sure death was near.
Hubby thinks we should 'put the poor thing out of its misery.'
2007-04-05
03:18:37
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