I Hi, please help me figure out what’s going on!
I have two bamboo sharks, one is marbled and the other is banded. Marbled one is only a few months old, my banded is about 2 weeks.
They are both in a 75g- before you come at me with this please know I am extremely well aware how inadequate this tank size is for my two babies. I work at my LFS and before my banded hatched, my marbled was living in a 400g tank and I got the ok to let them both live in their until I finish getting my 220g ready (I know this will not be suitable for them to live in forever, I am already putting money aside for a much larger tank for them once they’ve grown a lot in size). However, the entire 400g tank at work came down with ick and they had to treat the tank, telling me I needed to remove them and bring them home so they could do so. I had the 75g up and running for ages ready to go in case something like this happened.
My banded has begun flashing a little bit, he doesn’t do it completely- like he begins to and stops halfway through. Looks more like a little spasm or twitch. He also has begun pushing/Wiggling himself down into the sand. He did this once or twice in the 400g at work, but I didn’t think too much of it as I know they like to dig around in the sand. Now he’s been doing this more often here. First few times I thought he was clearing sand out of his way to make a nest/tunnel system in the back of the tank(which he ended up doing) , but now he’s still doing it when he’s just laying there under a rock. He also behaved strangely for about 5-10 minutes tonight, he was putting a lot of weight on the right side of his body (propping himself up with his right fins) and keeping his front half elevated. I’ll attach videos. He snapped out of this behavior as soon as I handed him some food and he ate it happily and went back into his hiding spot. He’s very active at night, constantly swimming and exploring. He gets along with the baby bamboo very well. Haven’t had a problem feeding him either. Plus I haven’t seen any discoloration on his stomach but I’ll check again. He’s in there with a Valentini Puffer, a cleaner shrimp, and the baby banded. The baby banded is acting perfectly normal, not behaving like this at all, as is my puffer. It’s 3:20AM and my mom swooped my test tubes And I can’t find them, so I won’t be able to post a reading of their parameters till around 11:30AM as I’m going into work to get my water tested at 11. My salinity is currently at 1.024. I intend to do a 15% water change in the morning, (it’s been around 6 days since my last water change) which reminds me, I’m running a canister filter on this tank but am putting in a sump with a skimmer at the end of the week.
What could this be? What can I do? Is any part of this normal behavior or no? I’m trying to get them into that 220g ASAP. Thanks in advance- I’m so worried. These sharks truly mean everything to me they’re the light of my life
Edit: it won’t let me upload the video for some reason so I’m including screenshots from them. Also, when the lights are completely off his eyes are completely open and clear- there was some light on in the room aside from the flash and that’s the only time they look like they do in the pic.
I have two bamboo sharks, one is marbled and the other is banded. Marbled one is only a few months old, my banded is about 2 weeks.
They are both in a 75g- before you come at me with this please know I am extremely well aware how inadequate this tank size is for my two babies. I work at my LFS and before my banded hatched, my marbled was living in a 400g tank and I got the ok to let them both live in their until I finish getting my 220g ready (I know this will not be suitable for them to live in forever, I am already putting money aside for a much larger tank for them once they’ve grown a lot in size). However, the entire 400g tank at work came down with ick and they had to treat the tank, telling me I needed to remove them and bring them home so they could do so. I had the 75g up and running for ages ready to go in case something like this happened.
My banded has begun flashing a little bit, he doesn’t do it completely- like he begins to and stops halfway through. Looks more like a little spasm or twitch. He also has begun pushing/Wiggling himself down into the sand. He did this once or twice in the 400g at work, but I didn’t think too much of it as I know they like to dig around in the sand. Now he’s been doing this more often here. First few times I thought he was clearing sand out of his way to make a nest/tunnel system in the back of the tank(which he ended up doing) , but now he’s still doing it when he’s just laying there under a rock. He also behaved strangely for about 5-10 minutes tonight, he was putting a lot of weight on the right side of his body (propping himself up with his right fins) and keeping his front half elevated. I’ll attach videos. He snapped out of this behavior as soon as I handed him some food and he ate it happily and went back into his hiding spot. He’s very active at night, constantly swimming and exploring. He gets along with the baby bamboo very well. Haven’t had a problem feeding him either. Plus I haven’t seen any discoloration on his stomach but I’ll check again. He’s in there with a Valentini Puffer, a cleaner shrimp, and the baby banded. The baby banded is acting perfectly normal, not behaving like this at all, as is my puffer. It’s 3:20AM and my mom swooped my test tubes And I can’t find them, so I won’t be able to post a reading of their parameters till around 11:30AM as I’m going into work to get my water tested at 11. My salinity is currently at 1.024. I intend to do a 15% water change in the morning, (it’s been around 6 days since my last water change) which reminds me, I’m running a canister filter on this tank but am putting in a sump with a skimmer at the end of the week.
What could this be? What can I do? Is any part of this normal behavior or no? I’m trying to get them into that 220g ASAP. Thanks in advance- I’m so worried. These sharks truly mean everything to me they’re the light of my life
Edit: it won’t let me upload the video for some reason so I’m including screenshots from them. Also, when the lights are completely off his eyes are completely open and clear- there was some light on in the room aside from the flash and that’s the only time they look like they do in the pic.