my fish cant stop floating.. he is constantly swimming down as fast as he can... its a tiger barb?

Question

He doesnt seem to be able to stay down so he is constantly swimming facing the bottom. what should i do

Answer 1

He's dying. Fish lose contorl of their air bladders before dying. Maybe the tank conditions are bad. Things like parasites, feces, chemical imbalance, low oxygen can spell death for fish.

Answer 2

It sounds a lot like swim bladder. I see an excellent variety of people ask this question and for some reason no person shows this even with the certainty that it form of feels obtrusive. Google swim bladder and you will see, theres extremely some strategies and drugs you could cope with it with. Small, community puppy shops are sturdy with advice for this style of element. you will possibly desire to probarly positioned the contaminated fish in a seperate, commonly smaller tank. that promises it of challenge to locate nutrition and makes it much less stressful for the fish to swim around. Dont provide up wish, certainly one of my fish had a severe an infection (septicimia) a mutually as in the past and that i've got been given anti-inner bacterica drugs from the keep and accompanied instructions and one week later they have been on theyre thank you to an entire restoration and are nevertheless with me.

Answer 3

The fish is suffering from swim bladder disease. The disease can be acquired by a few ways: 1. Bacterial infection. 2. Overfeeding. 3. Poor water quality. 4. Accidental ingestion of air. 5. Near death.

1. Your fish may have a bacterial or a viral infection which affects the fish's ability to inflate/deflate its swim bladder, causing it to either float at the top or sink at the bottom. For minor cases one way of treating it would be adding salt (dissolved in water BEFORE pouring into aquarium) with a concentration of 1-3g per litre. Such concentration of salt in water does not affect your fish but for the bacteria, would be a great deterioration of their environment. Note that you should increase the salt concentration slowly to prevent rapid water condition changes which will further stress your fish.
2. Overfeeding may somehow force the guts of the fish to physically affect the inflation/deflation ability. This is a common case for fancy type goldfish but in your case, a tiger barb, the probability would be quite low. Treatment includes fasting for one or two days. Then feed lightly-boiled and shelled green peas. This will also reduce constipation of the fish as well.
3. Poor water quality brings stress to the fish, which greatly reduces the immune system of the fish. Thus leading to problem cause No. 1 or No. 5.
4. This situation may seem ridiculous but I have literally seen it in my case. Fish may come up to the water surface to breathe when oxygen in their bloodstream becomes insufficient. Due to their desperate/rapid breathing, chances are your fish may have gulped in a portion of air into its digestive system, causing the fish to float. I don't think there is a treatment but it will eventually "burp" and out comes the bubble.
5. Poor water quality may lead to outrageously high ammonia/nitrite/nitrate concentrations if water is not fully cycled, or chlorine/chloramines if tap water is directly used without conditioning. These act as neurotoxic substances, leading to direct brain damage and eventually death. Treatment will be 25% water changes with CONDITIONED WATER (add dechlorinators which can ALSO neutralize chloramines), and after an hour, add benefitial bacteria such as BioCulture (you can buy them in most aquatic fish stores) which help in breaking down ammonia into nitrites and break down nitrites into nitrates as well. Follow instructions labelled on the bottles before your beloved fish DIE!!

Answer 4

Sometimes my betta gets this. I just don't feed it and after half a day or so, the fish is back to his happy self and isn't constantly floating to the top.

Answer 5

You should feed him the little beans inside of uncooked greenbeans limit to about 2-3 per day and this should help him clear up air inside of him

Answer 6

you may be overfeeding it as this causes problems with the swim bladder. dont feed it for a dat then feed it less than you normaly do and see whet happens.
worked for my gready golf fish.