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Stratten asked in PetsFish · 1 decade ago

pregnant fish is not eating..all water levels are fine?

one of my zebra danios has stopped eating. it has happened before when the tank was at a unusually high nitrite level. i did water changes daily and by the fourth day, she was eating again. she was also pregnant at the time. she is once again pregnant (shes just huge) and stopped eating. the water levels are fine (ph is 7.2 there is no ammonia and no nitrites) and it has been five days. she is now swimming into the gravel frantically like she cant see or thinks she can swim down more. all the other fish are great community fish and dont bother her at all, but i dont think she will make it much longer. any idea what this is? she usually hangs out in one corner of the tank, but today, instead of swimming in the same stop, she was resting on the gravel barley moving until it saw me and started swimming. i want to avoid anything like this happening to my other fish. its not happening just because she is trying to lay eggs. she seems too stressed to even lay the eggs.

Update:

i know the eggs are fertilized externally its just easier to describe to say that.

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  • PeeTee
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Egglaying fish don't get pregnant. The eggs are fertilized externally, so there is no pregnancy! Your fish is displaying the symptoms of a bacterial disease called "bloat", or it could also be simple constipation.

    To avoid this in the future reduce the feedings to one small feeding per day. Also decrease the volume of your water changes,but increase the frequency. Say 20% of the water twice per week. Careful cleaning of the filter media on a monthly basis and constant "vacuuming" of the substrate are very important.

    Source(s): 60 years of fish keeping.
  • 1 decade ago

    My old fresh water fish used to do this. It is a neurological issue i think. If so then she will be okay. Or it is something else

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