Fish floating to surface??
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Topic: Fish floating to surface??
Posted By: P.Kapp
Subject: Fish floating to surface??
Date Posted: February 16 2013 at 9:13pm
I bought a masked swallowtail angel (genicanthus semifasciatus) online, and ever since I started acclimating her, she has been floating like she has an air bubble in her belly. She is breathing pretty normal, and at times will try to swim downward, but always ends up floating to the top. I have her in an acclimation box to keep her from getting pushed against a power head or something. I tried reading up on swim bladder issues and all the cases I read about sounded different than this. Any idea what it might be? Or what I can do to help her? Thanks in advance ------------- Preston Kapp 210 Gal Reef |
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Posted By: P.Kapp
Date Posted: February 16 2013 at 9:14pm
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Sorry, pic is turned sideways. This is my first time doing this from my iPad ------------- Preston Kapp 210 Gal Reef |
Posted By: sabeypets
Date Posted: February 16 2013 at 11:17pm
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I would have to guess a swim bladder problem. If it is a deep water species it could be the way it was collected. I don't know of anything you can do for it. ------------- Shaun American Fork "Would you leave a dead cat in your kitchen till tommorow?" Builderofdreams |
Posted By: tileman
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 12:00am
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I have to agree. It is most likely a swim bladder. Sometimes they will be ok, just swim weird. But it usually wont go away. ------------- 335G Reef TOTM. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2015/2/aquarium ReefKeepers TOTM Feb. 2012 http://reefkeeping.com/joomla/index....k-of-the-month & |
Posted By: P.Kapp
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 9:15am
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Thanks guys. Has anyone seen this video, or tried this? http://blog.aquanerd.com/2011/12/fixing-swim-bladder-issues-in-our-fish.html" rel="nofollow - http://blog.aquanerd.com/2011/12/fixing-swim-bladder-issues-in-our-fish.html ------------- Preston Kapp 210 Gal Reef |
Posted By: chuckfu
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 3:23pm
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Try it. What do you have to lose? ------------- Try, try, try, then give up! |
Posted By: P.Kapp
Date Posted: February 17 2013 at 4:22pm
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Unfortunately I came home to the fish dead a couple hours ago. Thanks for all the help ------------- Preston Kapp 210 Gal Reef |
Posted By: Will Spencer
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 3:11pm
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I was going to say, the best thing you can do if you bought it online is try get them to live up to their live arrival guarantee if that is still in force. |
Posted By: P.Kapp
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 4:25pm
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Yeah, luckily it was still in the period that they guarantee them, so they are refunding me my money. Might have to try a different source for another one, if I can find one. ------------- Preston Kapp 210 Gal Reef |
Posted By: JohnnyHeavens
Date Posted: February 22 2013 at 6:43am
Just curious, why try another source? It sounds like you got taken care of? ------------- @Home 300g System 150g-Cube Reef+60g Frag+WaterChange 150g Tall FOWLR RIP @Work RSM 130D w/LEDs txt anytime @ eightO1-seven5five-eighteen99 Scuba! PADI Pro DM/AI/TecDeep NSS/CDS-Full Cave Diver |
P.Kapp wrote:Posted By: P.Kapp
Date Posted: February 24 2013 at 6:20pm
There's a chance that the fish wasn't collected properly and that's why it had the swim bladder issue. The vendor I got the fish from only has a 5 day guarantee, and I worry that the fish barely survives to that point and I'm out a lot of money... Plus they don't have anymore in stock ------------- Preston Kapp 210 Gal Reef |
Posted By: JohnnyHeavens
Date Posted: February 25 2013 at 7:09am
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I'd guess it is likely the swim bladder issue was due to the collection process/procedures. I think this is as much a luck of the draw as anything. Observation at the LFS before you buy helps. Especially with the deep water and/or rare species. Now to insert (more of) my opinion here... The most important thing to me is being taken care of by the LFS. ------------- @Home 300g System 150g-Cube Reef+60g Frag+WaterChange 150g Tall FOWLR RIP @Work RSM 130D w/LEDs txt anytime @ eightO1-seven5five-eighteen99 Scuba! PADI Pro DM/AI/TecDeep NSS/CDS-Full Cave Diver |
Posted By: rufessor
Date Posted: March 19 2013 at 3:03pm
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I believe you can pop a distended swim bladder and it will heal and the fish can be just fine, but this is more knowledge from fishing.... might be hard with a small specimen. Then again, this could all be pixie dust and fantasy cause who the hell knows what happens to a fish you throw overboard back into the sea... ------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler -A.E. 57 Gallon RImless build in progress check the thread before if becomes boring and just full of nice pictures of colorful coral! |