• Hello guest! Are you an Apistogramma enthusiast? If so we invite you to join our community and see what it has to offer. Our site is specifically designed for you and it's a great place for Apisto enthusiasts to meet online. Once you join you'll be able to post messages, upload pictures of your fish and tanks and have a great time with other Apisto enthusiasts. Sign up today!

My female Baenschi has something wrong with her

Timmy_O_

New Member
Messages
1
Last night my girl Baenschi started swimming poorly with her tail up but would get right for a while. I did 30% water change and she seemed to be ok. Checked on her a few times overnight seemed good. This morning she was fine but came back a few hours later and she was floating/swimming around like this eating off leaves and such. I put her in quarantine tank with fresh water, heater, airstone, and some stress coat. Dropped in one xtreme peewee cichlid pellet and she swam to it and has been eating it all the while tail in the air. Not sure what to do because I have heard Apistogramma are sensitive to medicine and salt baths. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Attached pics. She laid eggs a couple weeks ago that didn’t make it and she’s been colored up since. Her stripes are super light in the quarantine tank I think because it’s clear and white towel under.
130E1247-0902-4856-818A-0A1D37D7B970.jpeg
 

MacZ

Well-Known Member
Messages
2,995
Location
Germany
The only thing that comes to my mind is a ruptured swimbladder. If that's indeed the case there's nothing to do about this.
 

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
17,944
Messages
116,444
Members
13,047
Latest member
DonaldStype

Latest profile posts

Josh wrote on anewbie's profile.
Testing
EDO
Longtime fish enthusiast for over 70years......keen on Apistos now. How do I post videos?
Looking for some help with fighting electric blue rams :(
Partial updated Peruvian list have more than this. Please PM FOR ANY QUESTIONS so hard to post with all the ads poping up every 2 seconds….
Top