Oh poor babies!

[Nepen]

I have a bunch of watonai babies in a little netted cage in my indoor tank. They are like 1 month old so still tiny, like half an inch.

Yesterday I noticed some of them having clamped tail (cant see their fins!) so I did water change (like 35%).

A few died this morning and I saw more have clamped tail - so I did another water change (like 35%).

They are still not looking well.

What else can cause clamped tail (since they are fantail i can see the difference) / fins other than water quality? My water has always been good. Other fish seems fine and not effect. Only the babies watonai

They didnt last long too, they die pretty quick after i noticed what's wrong (and I look at them A LOT). can it be parasite? should I try to treat the whole tank with parasite?

 

[Tula]

Sorry you lost some of your babies If you're concerned about parasites, do you have a microscope ?

 

[Nepen]

Sorry you lost some of your babies If you're concerned about parasites, do you have a microscope ?

no i dont. and they are tiny babies i dont think i can do any scraping

 

[Nepen]

ok so I think what ever was there have passed. After last water change I went and get medicine for parasite and fungus, just in case. I dosed the tank with the parasite medicine and the babies still died but I did the whole course anyway. The one baby that was listing and also had fin clamped, I put in salt bath for half a day, one i put it back in the tank it started eating and this morning it's all right again!

All in all I lost about 6-10 babies. I still have about 10 left that I dont know what to do with all of them

 

[Tula]

Glad at least one recovered