Help Urgent My fish is laying upside down.

We had fish in the past. We did a search and found a good article You may have fed too much of a surface food and now it's constipated so it's affected its swim bladder. Hopefully after floating for a while without eating it'll come around. Others have had their fish like this for a month!?! Fish got better after a change in food.

Please don't tap your tank

Hope this helps.

You are kidding right?, Tell me to do that to a machine or a car I don't mind I have worked with them before.

But putting a needle into a fish, I don't even know where it's stomach is. I wouldn't dare try that.

But yeah I changed it one go, usually my tank doesn't get this dirty, this time it was almost brownish-orange I don't know what my friend did.



It wasn't floating at the top of the tank it was on the bottom of the tank. But it is strange I have goldfish and I do feed them surface food but I don't see them do that.

Eitherway it's too late it didn't make it through the night. It's laying on it's side with it's eyes completely discolored. I

Thanks for the help though, The fish forum didn't even respond. 

R.I.P.

Peace.
IronSingh

I read some articles if it was air isn't it supposed to be floating near the top of the Tank?

Here it is at the bottom. It seems it was a combo of new food and too sudden of a water change that led to it's death, The term used was "Swimbladder disorders" due to Constipation, bacterial infection, or Water Quality problems.


I didn't take note at that one particularly there are two identical fish of this type and many other types in the tank, but yeah lesson learn't don't change it too fast. I don't like things dieing on me.

What I did was Get a Tub Take out all the fish and put them in the tub Flushed the Tank, scrubbed it inside out, Cleaned the filter, and then fill it up again with tap water, added dechlorinate solution and then one by one put the fish back in the tank.

Then I fed em. I have been doing this for ages, there was never a problem. Well maybe once or twice, but I never saw a fish upside down at the bottom of the tank.



I don't mean to be prude, but why? I find it the only way to get them moving or stirred. does it distress them?


I live in the desert, rain is so unpredictable I would never see it growing up, but in recent years I have seen very erratic patterns. Rains cats and dogs over the night for 2 days then dust storm, then next day sunny. Right now it's a dusty day.

Peace.
IronSingh

I thought about that maybe the fish is to heavy compared to it's stomach and maybe that's why it's not floating but Google "freshwater fish upside down at the bottom of the tank" gives you Swimbladder disorder and alot of comments about separating it as it's near death.


I meant why shouldn't I knock on the Glass of the tank.

I took your points on changing water slowly. It makes sense.

Peace.
IronSingh

Tapping on the tank - noise transmits through the water,bounces of tank wall and adds stress to the fish. In NA it's one of the first thing we teach kids when they are around fish tanks.

We used to put water in  pails (or tub) and leave them overnight before doing the switch, suck water off the bottom to clean the gravel but not mix into the tank too much. I once let the tank get really bad and changed out 3/4 of the tank. That's when I found out I'm allergic to fresh water aquariums - I had a 3 day asthma attack! We had Discus fish and clown loaches.

Sorry for your loss

NA = North America 

Looks like you've done well with your fish - they're a good size.

As Promised.

My Aquarium,











Peace.
IronSingh