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Question

Hey thx 4 coming um.. my Black Moore (i think thats how u spell it) Keeps floating on the top of the water like it's dead but his mouth is moving and his fins are flapping very slowly, i dont see anything wrong with the skin, I just got him @ PetSmart about 2 or 3 wks ago. He was healthy then, but it started just yesterday or the day b4. Please tell me whether to buy and give him some medicine or flush him.

Answer 1

Try doing a partial water change - like a 1/4 or a  1/3. make sure you use water conditioner.

If he is not dead do the same tomorrow.... to give you some time to work out what the problem is.

If your fish is still alive after water change ask for help stating, tank size, type of fish and how many, how long your tank has been set up. heating and filtering systems etc etc....

Answer 2

This is an old question that tons of people have. Did you not search before you asked?

Answer 3

Did you properly cycle your tank?  If you didn't, your fish may be suffering the effects of high levels of ammonia or nitrite in the tank's water.  Here's some info about cycling:

(sorry if it's to much info, just thought I'd copy this from another question I answered so you'd understand the cycling process...)

All tanks need cycling! Like every living thing, waste is produced through breathing and excretion from digestive processes. In layman's terms, fish produce waste products from breathing and pooping. All fish do this. A cycled tank has the right balance of good bacterial colonies present that convert the fish waste product (ammonia, harmful to fish) to nitrite (also harmful), then nitrite to nitrate (safe up to a certain level). Without these good bacteria, waste products build up in the water and cause damage to fish gills and internal organs. Think about a fish swimming around in it's own pee/p**p - yuck.

Okay, the process... There are many methods and experts won't agree on which is the best. The best method for YOU is the one you can do in its entirety, from set up to cycled without causing harm (or death) to fish.

You can choose to cycle with fish, but you risk damaging or killing your fish if you don't watch the waste levels closely and take corrective steps. Cycling without fish is a great way to achieve results without endangering fish, but it can be more difficult. Either way, patience is necessary to see the process through. It can take well over a month to properly cycle a tank.

Cycling with fish - get a few small fish and introduce into your tank. Test daily for ammonia and nitrite for the first couple of weeks. You must perform tests with liquid drop kits or test strips, although test strips aren't as accurate. If you are cycling with fish, I recommend the liquid kits. You'll see a gradual increase in ammonia first, then after a time a gradual increase in nitrite. Both of these can be reduced with frequent partial water changes. Make sure you use some sort of water conditioner because chlorine will kill any beneficial bacteria colonizing in your filter media, and your tank will never cycle. Both ammonia and nitrite will reach their maximum and then you'll begin seeing nitrates. Gradually, your ammonia and nitrite levels will reduce to zero. A tank is cycled when ammonia and nitrite levels are zero and you have nitrates (the end product of your bacteria colonization).

Cycling without fish would require you having access to at least a handful of gravel from an already cycled tank or some filter media from an already cycled tank. The cycling process will proceed as above, but you'll need to find some sort of ammonia to "feed" the developing bacterial colonies. Some recommend distilled ammonia being added every other day or so. Some recommend "feeding" your tank with fish food, a little bit a day. The uneaten food will fall and begin to decay, producing ammonia.

There's lots of info on the web - do your research.  Don't flush your fish down the toilet!!!  That is an extremely painful way to go.  Your fish winds up in raw sewage exposed to high levels of ammonia and other toxic things.  Your fish will suffer needlessly - don't flush it!

Answer 4

call petsmart or bring him back and show them, if you were sick you would go to the doctor!