What Is This?

[Kairi]

Recently, one of my Albino Tiger Barbs was having some serious swim bladder issues. I was sure he was going to die, but apparently it wasn't in the stars that day. He ended up pooping this out, and was immediatly better (after about 3 hours of swimming in circles upside down)

What is it?

 

[miss bunkface]

i hear that feeding your fish 1 green pea will help for bladder problems.

 

[ridewake210]

whoa what the heck.


looks like a tic..

what the heck is that

 

[Kairi]

it is, apparently, what was causing him to swim upside down. it does look like a tick, doesn't it. it's not though.

i did feed him the pea... hence this blob of guts

 

[Breeze7050]

Have you come to any conclusions on this?? Im interested to know! That is one of the grossest things ever lol!

 

[iroc]

Could be a snail, do you have snails in the tank?

 

[smithrc]

I believe constipation causes pressure on the swim bladder - hence the odd swimming.

not sure what on earth that is though :eww:

 

[PrettyDiscus]

Its probably his heart.

 

[Breeze7050]

Its probably his heart.

Well... wouldn't he be dead by now???
I mean he was alive a full 12 hours later when she posted today!

 

[noshybabs]

Its probably his heart.

Well... wouldn't he be dead by now???
I mean he was alive a full 12 hours later when she posted today!

I think you mised the sarcasm there.

 

[kev350d]

Known tiger barbs it has probbably just passed the remains of fins from other species in your tank lol (cats suffer fur balls, tiger barbs have fin balls) thats pronounced FIN balls and not thin lol

 

[wendywc]

I can't tell... Can you take a high-res macro shot of it? 1600 X 1200 would be good.

 

[WILDER]

Does look abit like a fin now kev mentioned it.

 

[chilledtim]

Its probably his heart.

Well... wouldn't he be dead by now???
I mean he was alive a full 12 hours later when she posted today!

I think you mised the sarcasm there.

British sarcasm is only fully appreciated by us brits, other nations dont quite "get it"

Doesnt look much like an animal IMO, maybe a clog of some food matter (fins is a good guess) could be wrong tho

 

[Kairi]

he's the only one missing a bit of finnage. perhaps it's a glob of food.... no other fish in the tank (save 3 other barbs and a pleco... but all are fine).

i'll try to take a better picture of it.... lol i still have it, how weird is that? i want to figure out what it is before i toss it out.

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edit:

ok, here's the before i popped it picture (didn't mean to!)

and here's the after

it was just a sac, nothing was in it, but it's red and was a bubble type thing. sorry the pictures suck, but it was the best my camera could do.