I have a fish that is shaking uncontrollably what can I do?

Answers:
This sounds like shimmy. Which is generally a sign of stress brought on by poor water condition, or a sign of other diseases. Test your water for nitrates, ammonia, and pH. (Even if you suspect a disease be sure to check your water as bad water conditions lead to disease.)

1)Examine your fish:
-small white dots like salt grains is ick (aka ich)
-a fine white, red, or gold mist is velvet. (shows up best in a dark room under a flash light)
-Anything else strange email me or post another question.

2)Add 1 teaspoon of table salt per 5 gallons. Dissolve it into a glass of tank water before putting it into the tank.

3)If this is guppy, molly, swordtail, or platty. This is likely "livebearer disease" aka molly disease. This can be the result of stress, to soft of water, or lack of electrolytes. (You aren't using distilled water are you? That's very bad for fish. Over the next week add dechlorinate tap water to the tank.) If all you've got is live bearers add 1 teaspoon of salt per 5 gallons for 5 days. (So you reach 1 per gallon.) You might want to test your kH live bearers need it fairly high. Also be sure you're feeding your livebearers a flake with a mix of vegs, and meaty ingredients.

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Put it back in the fish tank or get a bowl of water. Duh!

Or if you caught it in a lake or stream, whack its head off and gut it. Drain the blood then cook it in a skillet. Mmmm. fishy!

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It's just doing the electric slide and/or disco. You could try putting on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

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he i probably going to die where do you live because so sink waters have clorox maybe thats why thats how mine died

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To many other questions to info you didn't provide.

- Is your Nitrogen cycle done cycling?

- Is your water temp off for this species of fish?

- Did you feed it something you shouldn't have?

- What other symptoms can you describe? (e.g. lose of color, white spots, black spots).

- And lastly.What size tank is it? Is it freshwater or Marine, and are there other fish in there with it and if so - do they have similar symptoms.

Sorry - just not enough info.

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Stop scaring him. sheesh.

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flush him

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worm it