Ok my little lady "Nancy" (Pangasius Catfish-Irid shark) is just laying by her crypt, she lays there all day, under the plant, only coming out to feed. I have examined her and no external disease seems evident. She has one other irid shark tank mate (male, "Sid"). Who swims by her and stays by her sometimes but he doesn't bother her. There are two gold mystery snails and a male DT betta in the tank as well, but nothing bothers her. I can't figure out whether she is just stressed or what the hell is the deal, even if she is just stressed why? Temp-fine, ammonia-fine, ph- haven't tested yet but should be fine, I use proper water conditioning. ANy ideas??????????????
Iridescent Shark
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If she is lethargic and a little dark in color, and doesn't have a normal startle reflex it might have blood flagellates, I have never had a fish with this but a possible cure is methylene blue for 5-7 days.
Ok I will keep that in mind since it won't hurt to try it. However I stayed up last night and I think I figured it out, her nights and days are all messed up. She was all over the tank when the light went out. Now this morning again she is under the plant, but she was swimming completely normally last night. My mystery snails are all cuddling in the corner.
Ugh she is still doing it, and it is like she is depressing the male, its like she is totally benthic now does anyone know what I should do here???????????????????????????????????????????
I picked up a pangasius day after x-mas 04. And for as long as i can remember mine has done the same thing. When i brought it home its tank was a 18 gallon tall tank and it grew to about 5-5.5" in it. Most of the time resting on the bottom of the tank. About a year ago I moved and set up a 45g tank and transfered everything to this new tank and my pang has done the same. Hides in the plants durring the day and then at night when the lights go off it swims around. My pang is now about 6.5-7", I though maybe its behavior was from, for a lack of a better word, alienation from the other fish. Since my other fish are much smaller (tetras, neons, mollys, swordtails, ect.) So i picked up 2 pictus cats that are about half the size of the pang and still nothing. So about a month and a half ago I picked up a second pang and two silver tipped cats. Still my 7" pang just hangs out in the plants all day while the silver tipped and the new pag swim everywhere all day long. Every once and a while the new pang will hang by the big one but when it just sits there the young one moves on. I know all the catfish will out grow the 45g tank, but I'm planning on moving again within the next 6 months (since this last move was temporary) and I plan on setting up atleast a 125 gallon tank and putting the cats in it and leaving my 45 for my smaller fish.
Pangasius like lots of room. If they are feeding well then test your water; often a low PH in the range of 4 to 5 can create problems as well as high Ammonia levels. I was given four 8-12 Pangasius catfish which were in a 40 gallon aquarium. "They never do anything and I want to get of of them" he said. They hardly moved until I netted them. The Ammonia in their aquarium was off the scale, above 6 PPM and the PH something around 4. Do you ever do a water change? I asked. Only to replace the water that evaporates. I put them in my 600 and they have never stopped swimming. The big one is close to 29 and they like to stick together.
My Ph use to be low, ~5.0-5.5. I reciently changed out the gravel for crushed coral and now my Ph is ~7. I've been monitoring it and salt levels very closely. I rinsed the coral in about a gallon of water per cup of coral, yes it took a long time but I think it looks so much better and its working as a Ph buffer. The tank has re-cycled and its been running now for about 2 months and still my large pang only comes out at night. Since it was stated that they stick together i'm hoping that when the smaller one is about the same size as the larger one they both be active, and i'll have a much larger/longer tank by then
