Re: Electric yellow not doing too well

Perhaps you have an fish carrying spawn...

Timmer...


"Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> hi guys, I got a 5 inch E. yellow a couple of days ago from the fish shop.
I
> think it is a female.   It is not in very good shape.
>
> when it hovers still in the water it is not quite horizontal, it's head is
> higher than its tail, on  a ~ 25-30 degree angle. It also uses it's "cheek
> fins"  (the ones on the side of it's body)  more than the other fish, so
it
> looks like it is struggling slightly to keep it's balance.
>
> It's gut is quite concave and hollow looking, it has taken a little food,
> but as it is only 2 days old in the tank, it hasn't started eating alot
yet.
> I am hoping once it has a gut full of food it's balance/bouyancy problem
> might go away??
>
> it also has quite a pale face, almost white, and it's body is paler than
the
> other big yellow I have in with it.
>
> other than this it seems ok, it swims around and stuff.. when I first put
it
> in the other yellow, that I know to be a male, immediately went for it,
and
> he chased "her" around in a circle at a hundred miles an hour. (looked
like
> a dog trying to catch it's tail). he then chased her around for a while,
but
> now he tends to just get in her way as she is swimming past and showing
> himself off to her. so he seems to think she is a female at least!!
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