Added Paracleanse and Fish are Floating!

[FriendlyLoach]

Hey everyone,

I added paraplense and one of my honey gouramis started swimming erratically and as if he had no control over how he moved, he was also gasping. I added him to a tank without paracleanse, but the other fish are still in there. I have two other honey gourami and one is also showing slight sings of the samething but I did not want to take him out if not necessary.  All of the other neon tetras, and hillstream loaches are ok. What should I do? Should I take out the other honey gourami that is sort of swimming like he is negatively buoyant. Why is the meds doing this???

[FriendlyLoach]

The meds are brand new by the way. Just got them from the coop in the mail. 

[Emika_B]

If you can remove the ones with odd behavior, I’d do that.  If you can’t, then do a water change.  Give them a few days to relax then try the meds again.  Before adding the meds, do a water check just to be sure it’s not a parameter problem.  If you get the same reaction from the same fish you might need to look for a different med.  I’d think that just like people fish can have bad reactions to medicines that for most others works just fine.

Edited May 14, 2021 by Emika_B
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[Colu]

I would add an extra air stone as well as a water change to remove the meds

[Cory]

I basically always start asking, what is being done differently than what we do, As we treat hundreds of gouramis every week with paracleanse.

[FriendlyLoach]

Thx everyone, my fish has not gotten better yet 😞, and is pooping a lot if that helps. 

[Emika_B]

FriendlyLoach - I’m sorry he’s not feeling better.  Maybe he’s pooping the parasites and will be right as rain in the morning - one hopes.

[FriendlyLoach]

Yes thank you @Cory @Emika_B @Colu all fish are better and happy. Thank you for your help!