Stella Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 Sigh, the first few months of the year always seem to be bad for my fish and I About a month ago I noticed one of my mudfish being a little less stable in the water, just kinda rocking a little side to side when it swum. Sometimes it would lie on its side (mudfish usually sit on the bottom) but would swim away when poked and was feeding normally. The behaviour got more marked and it was hiding less (again, mudfish hide most of the time) and one friday it died. Now I notice another one is rocking side to side when it swims! Please ignore the fact that it is a weird fish. What causes this sort of swimbladder issue? Being a coldwater fish it is not me putting hot water in the tank (I think that usually causes swimbladder issues) I wonder if it has been too warm for it and it has slowly caused the problem? Anything else that mucks up swimbladders? This is not good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted February 15, 2009 Report Share Posted February 15, 2009 External factors Genetic factors Cancer and TBC Diet Diseases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 External factors Genetic factors Cancer and TBC Diet Diseases anything left? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted February 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 the price of fish? :roll: ok, so my fish is doomed, I have no idea why, no idea how to prevent it or cure it, and no idea if I will lose the other two also. Goody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaNs Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 anything left? More right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tHEcONCH Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 I might just be diet - If it has a proper swim bladder organ (some fish don't - I don't know about mudfish) then it could just be a partially occluded intestine preventing the gas released from escaping the organ (does it poop?) - in which case feed it bloodworms or similar to help clear it out, or it could have a swim bladder infection - in which case use an antibiotic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share Posted February 22, 2009 Sorry about the loss of the first fishy...did the second fish make it Stella? Were you able to find out what the cause was? Caper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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