Beacon Tetra Swimming Strangely?!

[Moquillo]

Can anyone please help me with a problem with one of my beacons. My partner noticed it swimming with its head pointing upwards at quite a sharp angle about 8 hours ago and I've just got in from work and it doesn't look very well. It appears to be swimming with jerky movements and going round and round in centre of the tank. All the other fish seem fine! I don't like to think that this one is suffering, and feel concerned as i am fairly new to fish keeping!

 

[WILDER]

Size of tank in gallons or litres.
How many fish and which type.
Water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.

Does the fish look bloated.
What do you feed the fish.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Do the gills look pale or red and inflamed.

Its sounds like the fish could be dying.

Swimming in circles can be the fish is dying, swim bladder, internal parasites.
Swimming in a jerky movement can be flukes to swim bladder.
Head pointing upwards can be swim bladder.

 

[Moquillo]

Hi! Thanks for replying!
I knew i should've put stats in! Sorry!!!

Tank is 125 ltr
I've got 6 beacon tetras, 6 glowlights, 2 zebra loaches, 2 bristle nose catfish and 6 platys (who won,t stop breeding) and therefore, , 5 babies
ammonia = 0
ph = 7.5-8
nitrate = 20
nitrite = 0

I had natural plants up to last week but took them out during weekly cleaning only to find my shop had none so Im geting more on monday! I do 20% water changes every monday and have lost no fish since I bought the tank in october last year. That's why we're a bit worried about this one!
Fish doesn't look bloated and gills seem fine. We feed them frozen larvae and dried flake.

 

[WILDER]

Can you issolate the sick fish as it sounds like he might not make it.

Can you answers some of the questions I asked.

Does the fish look bloated.
What do you feed the fish.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Do the gills look pale or red and inflamed.

 

[Moquillo]

Can you issolate the sick fish as it sounds like he might not make it.

Can you answers some of the questions I asked.

Does the fish look bloated.
What do you feed the fish.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Do the gills look pale or red and inflamed.

Fish isn't bloated.
We feed them fozen larvae and flake
Gills look fine.
Not sure what you mean by flicking and rubbing but he is swimming ina jerky manner (if that makes sense) but he can swim normally if another fish comes near him. Then goes back to nose up.
I couldn't isolate the fish from the main tank although i have got a floating breding tank

 

[WILDER]

Going to get colin t to take a look at your thread as it could be internal parasites, flukes internal, swim bladder.

 

[Colin_T]

It sounds like an internal protozoan or bacterial infection. These occur from time to time in most tanks and are commonly brought about by dirty substrate or an unclean filter.
How often do you gravel clean the tank?
When was the last time you cleaned the filter?

Try doing a 50% water change and complete gravel clean each day for a week. Clean the filter and see how the fish looks in the next few days. Quite often the big water changes and clean tank will be all that is required to fix the problem. However, if the fish is really unwell it might not make any difference to that particular fish. It will however, dilute any disease organisms in the water and reduce the chance of other fish becoming infected.

 

[CollinsFamily]

Can anyone please help me with a problem with one of my beacons. My partner noticed it swimming with its head pointing upwards at quite a sharp angle about 8 hours ago and I've just got in from work and it doesn't look very well. It appears to be swimming with jerky movements and going round and round in centre of the tank. All the other fish seem fine! I don't like to think that this one is suffering, and feel concerned as i am fairly new to fish keeping!

Hi there, I'm in exactly the same situation as you were only with a phantom tetra. Everything you've detailed is the same. Do you mind telling me the outcome?