aww i want one!

[wwestar2000]

I just saw something on tv. It was about a lady who had a goldfish with a bad swimbladder. It had to have a sling with a piece of styrofoam on it. I want one. I wanna takecare of a fish like that. I wanna make it really bappy. If anyone has one that they cant take care of anymore ill take it.

 

[MegTheFish]

If you go to my Walmart you'll find tons of goldfish with this problem, the poor things are all floating at the top, and getting picked on by the other fish I've written a letter to the owner (my dad works with the owners wife) so next time I go back there hopefully the situation will be changed.

 

[wwestar2000]

I tought they would be on the ground?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Swimbladder disorder is simply when the fish loses control of its swim bladder and can no longer maintain its balance or direction it wants to go in the water. A sling isn't going to help much, swimbladder disorders are most commanly caused by bad water quality or internal bacterial infections and there is a very low recovery rate and most starve to death when they can no longer aim for food.
Fish are covered in a protective slime layer which helps keep out deseases, touching the fish's skin rubs off the layer and thus the fish becomes open to infections, so attatching an object to the fish that will touch its skin will only make it much worse.

 

[wwestar2000]

So even and object like a cloth or are you refering to any object?

 

[Sandusky]

Number one cause for SBD is when people do not soak their flakes/pellets. Goldfish gasping the surface for food causes extra oxygen to enter their stomache, these gasses build up and push against the swim bladder and distort it's location or squish it up. My Moor has a serious case which was quickly cured simply by boiling peas, de-shelling them, mushing them up and hand feeding for 4 days with a 2 day fasting. Peas are a natural laxitive and helped push out extra stomache contents along with the gasses.

The point Tokis-Pheonix was making wwestar200 was that it's highly unlikely that the fish with the sling will live for very much longer. I suggest you NOT buy a fish for the sake of it being sick if you do not research and understand the treatments it needs. That places the fish in danger and an ineveitable death on your hands.

 

[black angel]

also viral and bacterial diseases can stop the swim bladder from functioning properly and also if theres a tumour pressing on the valve then that will cause fish to flip as well.

 

[MegTheFish]

A sling is bad? Really? Over at another goldfish forum I go to: http/p092.ezboard.com/bthegoldfishnet a girl there has her goldy in a sling, he's doing great! Here is her website: http/www.sullivanet.com/misc/fishie/

 

[black angel]

It can help but ive heard too that it can cut into the slime coat. Down to the person with the fish though.

 

[wwestar2000]

It would be cool to have one but dont worry i wont get one just cause it has that. Well now i know for if I ever come across one.