Re: I've got a floater


"Mellie101" <mellie101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for all your advice. To be honest I don't honestly think I
could end her life. A friend of mine offered if we really thought she
was suffering. I'd have trouble living with that. Funny how I find it
quite easy to swat a fly or wasp :-) She doesn't appear to be
suffering. I've now been up 3 hours today and haven't seen her near
the top at all. It always seems to be afternoon into the evening when
she starts floating. She interacts so well with the other fish that it
is as a last resort to move her. The hospital tank I have isn't cycled
either so worried that the stress of the ammonia would stress her and
the frequent water changes. If I try the Epsom Salts would it be ok to
treat the whole tank? Would my other 3 fish suffer? Could I give the
whole tank the antibiotic food or is that 'over treating'. If she has
a bacteria is there a chance that the others could get it too? So many
questions :-)

Cheers
Mellie


First, please don't ever feel you are bothering anyone on here, or asking to
many questions, If you did a search of all my questions, you would be like
wow, she is lost, and I have kept fish (although a different kind) but I ran
into some problems in the last month, and it was one thing after another,
and if these guys were not so great about it and did not help, I would of
lost a lot of fish.....so again always ask.
I will let someone else answer about the Epsom salt and treating the entire
tank, I read about it also, and I don't think it will do any harm, the thing
about removing the sick fish is for a few reasons, although I don't know if
you have to, if they are having a hard time swimming its easier for them to
get to the top,also if they are contagious they wont spread it, and you can
treat them with out treating every one, I don't know if you need to do it
with swimmers bladder, or constipation, but I think you want to control what
he is eating, but if it is not cycled it may lead to other problems. I
copied a paragraph I found for you below. Nik

One other problem you must watch for with a Ryukin is "constipation".
Because of the very deep body, Ryukins have more of a problem digesting
their food than most other types of goldfish. Instead of the food passing
through the Ryukin, sometimes the food stays in the intestinal tract,
causing constipation which will cause the Ryukin to rise to the top of the
tank belly up. Many Goldfish Collectors think that this action is a "swim
bladder" problem, when it's just constipation.
It is very important to feed lots of spirulina and shelled green peas, these
foods work as a laxative and will releive the problem, however, once a
goldfish has this problem, you must be very careful not to overfeed. In
fact, I would not feed anything one day a week to a goldfish that has this
constipation problem.



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