Re: Spinning fish

["Mike" <mikeymeyer@sprintmail.com>]

I have this same behaviour happen with my congo tetras.  Whenever he is
sleeping and I turn on the light suddenly.  He will spin around like crazy.
The first time it happened, I thought it was some sort of death spiral
attributed to a parasite.  But now it happens so routinely that I don't pay
any attention.  I hope yours is OK.  Maybe this can give you hope.
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Martina" <emartina@uiuc.edu>
To: "Apisto Group" <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 3:43 PM
Subject: Spinning fish


> I had a pair of flag fish in my 29 gallon grow out tank to control the
hair
> algae in there. Today I switched one over to one of my ten gallon tanks so
> he could eat the algae that had sprung up in there. The water conditions
in
> both tanks are the same. I checked in on him about an hour later and he is
> swimming around spinning, very quickly, to his left uncontrollably. It is
> the weirdest thing I have ever seen. The closest thing to this is when you
> are fishing and have a big musky on next to the boat and it starts
rolling.
> Except this flag fish has been rolling for over ten minutes (that I have
> seen). Any ideas what this is?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Eric Martina
> University of Illinois
> Electrical Engineering
>
>
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