Poorly Five Stripe Barb

sumocopter · Mar 26, 2009

Hi, my barb is very bloated and sluggish, all other fish in the tank are fine, only this one seems to be affected. 60l tank with 5 barbs, 6 danios, sucking loach and 2 mollies, stats are all fine and stable, same as for weeks and weeks.

Any ideas?

WILDER · Mar 26, 2009

What do you feed your fish.
Are scales sticking out.
What does it look like when he goes to the toilet.

Cook some frozen peas for a few minutes, let cool down and pop out of shell, mush between fingers into small pieces and add to the tank.
Epson salt baths to help draw fluids out.

sumocopter · Mar 26, 2009

I feed them mostly flake food, bit of bloodworm sometimes, there are no sticking out scales and i hvent seen the toilet business.

I'll do as you say with the pea, sadly ive got to leave for a wekeend away soon, why do fish time these things like they do?!?!

Wilder said:
What do you feed your fish.
Are scales sticking out.
What does it look like when he goes to the toilet.

Cook some frozen peas for a few minutes, let cool down and pop out of shell, mush between fingers into small pieces and add to the tank.
Epson salt baths to help draw fluids out.

WILDER · Mar 26, 2009

Fish need a varied diet of some frozen foods like daphnia which helps the fish digest it's food and brime strimp.
Also green veg.
Feed the peas, it might just be a case of constipation due to many dried foods.
Feeding to many bloodworms can make fish bloat up.

sumocopter · Mar 26, 2009

cheers

Wilder said:
Fish need a varied diet of some frozen foods like daphnia which helps the fish digest it's food and brime strimp.
Also green veg.
Feed the peas, it might just be a case of constipation due to many dried foods.
Feeding to many bloodworms can make fish bloat up.

WILDER · Mar 26, 2009

Hope they are soon back to normal.
The peas will flush them through.

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