Swim Bladder Problems

[gforce17]

Hi. Never had this before, but two fish, a big angel and a red tailed tetra have gone down with swim bladder problems. Interpet do a treatment - should I treat the whole tank and all fish to prevent further casualties or transfer to another tank. The Interpet instructions say the treatment works best with added Aqualibrium tonic salt - will all fish cope with that? Thanks.

 

[gforce17]

Did I do something wrong? Not a single response from 111 views???

 

[kashifmasud]

I am not expert but what I read about swim bladder, there is not much you can do. However, if you wish to use salt or interpret it would make sense to move it to another tank, I guess.

 

[gforce17]

Thanks kashifmasud. Sadly I've had to euthanise both fish after giving the treatment and salt a go. I couldn't bear to watch ten suffer any longer. The clove oil method is so humane.

 

[fishy_wishy]

there must have been a reason for them getting swim bladder at the same time. check water conditions before adding new few

 

[gforce17]

Exactly my concern. I have checked all parameters and everything is good so nothing untoward. But I closed down my smaller tank two weeks ago to make way for a marine/reef tank arriving next week - always said I wouldn't go down that road but I've given in and I'm really excited about the project - not sure my wallet will be?? So I moved a number of fish into the larger tank which could have stressed the others - perhaps that was the problem? All other fish look healthy - touch wood!
 
Thanks for the reply fw.

 

[DoubleDutch]

Think if you'll give more information about the tank, inhabitants, maintenance, filtering and what these good parameters are a lot of members would react.
Swimbladderproblems with two different species at te same time certainly isn't normal.

 

[fishy_wishy]

The sudden change in temperature will have caused shock, this weakens the immunity in fish. If there is literally nothing else it could be it may be this, although I'm not an expert and have no experience with moving fish from tank to tank.
I'm thinking this because I bought a few neon tetras and the next day one died from swim bladder but, that was just the one