thegoldiehook Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) I need a little help. I've had my fancy goldfish for a few years now. And it seems like they are all slowly getting sick. I've lost 2 this year. It seemed to start after I gave some blood worms to them 2 years ago. One ranchu and one pearlscale started slightly tilting to the side and slightly bending their body. I did some research and figured it was swim bladder issues because nothing seemed was wrong. I did some deworming treatments with prazipro just in case. Since the too slowly became less active and still tilted and bent their bodies over the months. I try salt water, different deworming regimes, and general cure treatment over the month and still no change. Over this past year they started a losing more boyncy and would eat one or two pellets and become uninterested in food. All while still bending there tilting and bending. I decided about 3 months ago to deworm more aggressively with minimal improvements despite multiple treatments. One did not survive long after treatments and I euthanized the other yesterday. I'm worried because my other goldfish are showing the same symptoms. Tilting and bending, and interested in only a few bites of food. They are still able to swim normally luckily. Water parameters Ammonia 0 Ph 8.4 Gh very hard 300ppm Kh 180 ppm Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 Temp 72 125g tank, 3 adult anchu, 2 adult pearlscales, 2 baby Mutt goldfish (2inches). The mutt goldfish seem to the only ones unbothered by anything. I recently delt with Ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates spikes but got it under control. Could this be residual affects of that? Edited January 24 by thegoldiehook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 (edited) Swim bladder can be effected by high levels of nitrates fish over eating and the stomach putting pressure on the swim bladder or a bacterial infections or an injury what I would do is fast for couple of days and treat with epsom salt baths 1 table spoon for 1 gallon for no more than 15 minutes for 5 days as epsom salt acts as a muscle relaxant to help relieve pressure on the swim bladder then give an update if your seeing no improvement after 5 days @thegoldiehook Edited January 25 by Colu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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