Glowlight Tetra With Swim Bladder Type Problems?

SimonG

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Tank size: 60ltr
pH: 7.6
ammonia: 0
nitrite: 0
nitrate: 50
kH: 180
gH: 250
tank temp: 25

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behaviour):
One 'glowlight' Tetra looks bloated and is "swimming" inverted, much of the time looking like he's floating. Gills and fins are still moving so I'm sure he's alive. If he were a goldfish I would describe his movements as very bad swim-bladder problem (from how I've heard it described). Have tried putting peas in the tank for the fish, all the others seem to go for them but I don't know if the target fish can get down to them.

Could someone advise the best course of action to get this fish back to normal please?


Volume and Frequency of water changes:
10% yesterday evening (#20 hours ago)
previous water change 10% 4 days ago​

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank:
API Stress Coat+ (anti-chlorine) 5ml added to new water
API Stress Zyme+ (live bio) 5ml added to new water
King British Aquatic Plant Food 6ml added after last water change
Interpet Anti-White Spot 6ml with last two water changes, see Exposure to Chemicals below​

Tank inhabitants:
4 Glowlight Tetra (including the one sick fish)​
4 Blue neon Tetra​
3 Danio​
2 Octocinclus​

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):
4 Glowlight Tetra'son 18 Dec (#2 weeks ago)​

Exposure to chemicals:
27 Dec White spot diagnosed by lfs, Interpet Anti White Spot given as treatment.
Treatments to date:​
27 Dec after 10% water 6ml added to tank​
30 Dec after 10% water 6ml added to tank​

Digital photo (link to dropbox pic):
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Sadly fish has died. However, if anyone has any info for what to do should it ever happen again, I would like to know, please.

Thanks for reading,
Simon
 
sorry you lost a fish, im not a expert so i hope someone will come on and advise you
 
Sadly, you may never know what caused the bloating. Bloating can be caused by so many different things. Keep an eye on the rest of the fish and hope for the best.
 

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