Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:49 pm GMT   Reply      

I have a Tetra type fish swimming upwards is he on his way out???

Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:11 pm GMT   Reply      

Mine usually flicker their fins and stay in one spot straight up and down before they go out.

Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:05 pm GMT   Reply      

It seems to swim in an occasional circle also and in others words he's dying??? for sure... what does he have?

Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:30 pm GMT   Reply      

Is it a neon tetra? My had the neon tetra disease in which he became pale, lost his color and didn't hang out with the others, and then he eventually started swimming weird, then sort of just floating in one spot straight up and down by flicking his side fins. I put him a baby net to keep the others away, but he eventually died. Nitrite might have been a little high or he didn't adjust to the water change.

Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:44 pm GMT   Reply      

he is a serpae tetra I think is what it is . I have had him for a year or so he is one of 3 they are the orange red ones with black fins the size of a quarter or so.. He is still acting loopy.. noone bothering him though. I am debating on taking him out to a 1 gal tank. I had a small blk angel swiming like a drill for a day or so and he is fine now that was month or so ago.

Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:29 pm GMT   Reply      

I have about 7 of the serpae tetras and have not had any of them to act that way. Sorry can't help you there.