Thursday, July 9, 2009

My fish has swim bladder disease can someone help me ?

My goldfish definetly has swim bladder disease and I am trying to help him, Ive isolated his from the other fish , and have given him bits of frozen peas because I heard that helps, but is there anything else that I could do to help my goldfish, Ive already lost a fish to swim bladder disease and I don't want to lose another, so can someone please help me before its to late , thanks.

My fish has swim bladder disease can someone help me ?
There can be different causes, and different causes require different treatment.





Bacteria – A bacteria attack could cause inflammation at the epithelium of the sac, making the sac walls too thick for proper gas diffusion. Thus, the fish is now stuck at certain buoyancy, making swimming very difficult.





Diet – Feeding low-quality food that soaks up water and expand inside the fish can cause food impactions.





Shape of fish – Globoid-shaped fishes such as the Pearlscale Goldfish are especially prone to the swim bladder disorder due to their guts being all squashed up in their abdomen.





First, tend to your water’s quality. Making sure the water quality is top-notch allows us to assume that it is not a bacteria attack. But if you strongly suspect it to be the cause, then do visit your local pet shop for an appropriate medication. For treatment towards the other forms of cause, first stop feeding the sick fishes for a few days. Fishes can go without food for up to 10 days, so stopping a few days is really all right. After the few days, if the fishes do not get better, try feeding peas. Yes, peas that we eat. This treatment is being recommended by many and is well worth a try. The peas will supposedly encourage the destruction of impactions.





Remember, always keep your water condition good and feed sparingly. This will keep the occurrences of swim bladder diseases to a minimum.
Reply:sorry but the old 'toilet' will do it
Reply:Sounds hawt... I would get the ol toilet ready, sorry :(
Reply:pottasium permanganate in solution it will turn mauve leave the guy in it for a few minutes may do the trick but listen to others as I not positive
Reply:first thing is dont feed him anything at all, do this and he will start to look and act normal after a period of just 24 hours and then give him an extra day of no food, this is primarily caused by over feeding so maybe try a little less from now on and also one day a week dont feed them at all,
Reply:I would try "Swim Bladder Disease" tablets, most big Supermarkets stock them, sometimes you can get them on a 2 for 1 offer! Failing that, a cup of bleach in his bowl will often help to clean out his swim bladder.
Reply:Sounds like you are doing the right thing - I don't know if you were doing this - but warm the peas in the microwave or a steamer before you feed them to him - and make sure they have been removed from their skins.





Other then that - don't feed him any other food for a few days and he should get better.





I would put a little aquarium salt in his tank to help him with electrolytes and such as well - just follow the directions for aiding in recovery of fish on the back of the label - I tend to add a little salt to the water anytime anything is wrong with my goldfish just as an added "security blanket"

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