Hi! Bully, my Blue (three spot) gourami has been having trouble swimming for the past two weeks or so. It looks as if she is having trouble with her buoyancy and cannot hang out in the mid-level of the tank with minimal effort like my other gouramis do. She stays at the bottom of the tank and the only time she surfaces is for air and food but even then it looks like she has a bit of difficulty swimming. She is around 3 years old and the only other issue she has is a red bump/growth on her lower lip which appeared when she was 1 year old. I have tried treating her with aq salt, melafix, quarantine, and good old clean tank but it never went away nor did it spread to the other gouramis.
So far to troubleshoot I have tried not feeding for 2-3 days, and lowering the flow of the filter output in case it was too strong (I have a FX4 and cascade).
Tank info:
125gal
Tank mates: 3 krib cichlids, 1 african leaf fish (leopard gourami), 1 pearl gourami, 3 clown loaches, snails, 1 sailfin pleco, 1 clown pleco, 1 gold gourami, and 1 opaline gourami
All of my gouramis, with the exception of the African leaf fish I know are female.
Water levels are tested every 2 weeks to once a month. Levels are all normal. I use the API freshwater test kit (with the drops).
Diet: flakes, bloodworms, algae wafers (for bottom feeders)
Substrate: Caribsea aquarium sand, all live plants.
I have attached a picture of her two weeks ago and some pics of her tonight. Do you guys have any idea of what it could be or anything else I should try?
Edit: I forgot to add that she sometimes will release bubbles from her mouth as she goes back to the bottom.
So far to troubleshoot I have tried not feeding for 2-3 days, and lowering the flow of the filter output in case it was too strong (I have a FX4 and cascade).
Tank info:
125gal
Tank mates: 3 krib cichlids, 1 african leaf fish (leopard gourami), 1 pearl gourami, 3 clown loaches, snails, 1 sailfin pleco, 1 clown pleco, 1 gold gourami, and 1 opaline gourami
All of my gouramis, with the exception of the African leaf fish I know are female.
Water levels are tested every 2 weeks to once a month. Levels are all normal. I use the API freshwater test kit (with the drops).
Diet: flakes, bloodworms, algae wafers (for bottom feeders)
Substrate: Caribsea aquarium sand, all live plants.
I have attached a picture of her two weeks ago and some pics of her tonight. Do you guys have any idea of what it could be or anything else I should try?
Edit: I forgot to add that she sometimes will release bubbles from her mouth as she goes back to the bottom.
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