Urgent! My goldfish has swim bladder disorder/disease?
He was swimming fine yesterday but after I did a water change ( 25-30% ) he started to seemingly float up to the tank and he would swim sideways up there before attempting to swim back down, only to float back up. I thought it might have been because of the new water so I left him alone for several hours but I noticed today that he's still doing the same thing. I read online that a remedy was to feed the goldfish peas but is it frozen, raw, or cooked peas? Should I fast him for a day or two before feeding it or should I do it now?
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My goldfish gets this loads, but normally because of his food :)
If his fairly big eating floating food he will consume a lot of oxygen which wont help, so buy sinking pellets or goldfish pellets as they are bigger and most do sink which helps.
Make sure when you do water changes to use a water safe treatment (sorry if you know this already).
You need to cook the peas by boiling them as usual and then take the shell off and chop up small enough for your little goldfish to enjoy easily.
If it doesnt work just dont feed him for 2-3 days and then just feed him on peas for a day and after slowly add normal food :) It usually does the trick.
If not you might have to try medication.
Swim bladder is a digestive problem common with goldfish and betta fish usually caused by eating too much protein in there food or overfeeding. Skin and mash a pea and feed it to your fish. It will flush out the fish and make him back to normal.
Your goldfish is gulping too much surface air.
Your not using aquarium salt
Your PH most likely is not 7.8
You most likely do not oxygenate your tank
The water is above 78 degrees
Your water is polluted
Your not changing your charcoal that removes gasses and other harmful contaminants.
microwave your pea in a little bit of tank water for 30 second, take it out of its' shell, cut it up and feed it in small chunks. This is how I feed peas.
he has tuberculosis, its rare among fish but it is possible. there really isnt a cure for the fish. it will most likely die. mollies and goldfish are proned to this disease. mine had this and my vey tols me what it was.