monkeylicious
09-10-2010, 04:22 AM
Is it possible for a fish to be depressed?
We have a 10 gallon tank with acceptable levels (nitrite, nitrate, ph...) and 4 mollies. we decided for the last 2 fish we wanted some more color so went with 2 platys. they have been doing horribly. replaced the red, replaced the red mickey, replaced the red mickey again - store said they had something going on with the red mickeys, so we got a sunrise mickey... well, our solid red died wednesday afternoon. the mickey was acting fine that afternoon, but yesterday he was either flying around the tank, clearly alive... or laying on the bottom looking dead. the two platys clearly hung out together... you would see them swimming around together, obviously together... and we haven't replaced red yet (wasn't planning to). do you think it is possible that our mickey is depressed and we need to get another platy? and btw - never thought i would be asking a question like this!
We have a 10 gallon tank with acceptable levels (nitrite, nitrate, ph...) and 4 mollies. we decided for the last 2 fish we wanted some more color so went with 2 platys. they have been doing horribly. replaced the red, replaced the red mickey, replaced the red mickey again - store said they had something going on with the red mickeys, so we got a sunrise mickey... well, our solid red died wednesday afternoon. the mickey was acting fine that afternoon, but yesterday he was either flying around the tank, clearly alive... or laying on the bottom looking dead. the two platys clearly hung out together... you would see them swimming around together, obviously together... and we haven't replaced red yet (wasn't planning to). do you think it is possible that our mickey is depressed and we need to get another platy? and btw - never thought i would be asking a question like this!