one of my fish is always lying on its side and dosent swim around much, could it be sick?

Question

one of my gold fish swims up side down and is always lying on its side and dosen`t really swim around alot could it be sick.

Answer 1

swim bladder Symptoms: The fish has problems swimming correctly. They may appear to be standing on their head, or floating to the surface and struggling to go down to the bottom, or possibly even have problems removing themselves from the bottom. At the later stages of the disease, the fish could lose its balance and swim upside down. Treatment: There is no specific treatment for this dilemma;however, you can try isolating the fish to a quarantine tank in which the water is shallow(this provides relief for the fish). Add one teaspoon of salt per gallon of water. Some individuals will feed thawed out frozen peas and this purges the fish's system and has been noted to help many fish. After 1-2 weeks a return to the main tank with deeper water may be tried. The best advice I can give is to maintain proper water conditions, feed your fish a well balanced diet, and possibly try feeding your goldfish sinking foods rather than floating types. They won't inhale so much air this way. The pellets if soaked in water before feeding will expand before the fish eats them and this has helped a lot. Good luck with this!! Check out http://www.koivet.com

Answer 2

Swim bladder or fungus most probably more likely the first it is easy rectified you could probably go to a good pet shop and get something to sort it out drops for water. A vet would have to charge you dont forget

Answer 3

Yes, take it to the vet, or phone him for advice.
Saw a similar thing on the telly. The fish was put in a separate bowl with something in the water and it got better.
Hope yours does.

Answer 4

hello im in college training to be a doctor but i do no sum stuff about animals. ok your animal or fish is probably getting to much to eat or is very old if it is the first one u shud probably start cleaning its bowl more often because the fishs 'urine' becomes very frequent and will not eat anymore, so the tank will become very polluted. if the second take it to your nearest vet if you can be bothered or jest give it to the wetland center there i twill have room to grow.

Answer 5

Swim bladder problems. If it's ruptured, it'll die, there's nothing you can do.
Buy some liquid fish tonic, put that it and see how it does, if there's no improvement it's bladder is ruptured and it will die as it can't regulate it's buoyancy.
If it's just got an infection or whatever it will recover with treatment.

Answer 6

Normally that means they are about to die. It could be sick or stressed, you could always treat it with a stress coat or other things that you can find at a pet store to treat sick fish.

Answer 7

Doesn't sound too healthy to me - be careful when you are changing water as putting chlorinated water in straight from the tap call kill fish.

Answer 8

yeah, i think so, i'd go back to the pet store and ask about it. if there is something wrong with it get a new healthy one. you dont want any of ur other fish to get sick

Answer 9

drop a bit of brandy in the water and it will be leaping round like a dolphin

Answer 10

it might have a fungus that causes it to swim funny. there are some tablets that you can buy (I got mine at Walmart) that clears up the fungus. It turned the water green but it does clear up the fungus and make the fish better.