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help fish upside down
my fish is swimming upside down and i dont know why,yesterday morning i noticed that the pump has stopped working,could this be the problem ? i have to get a new pump tommorrow anyway,but i dont know if this is the cause,we have 2 coldwater fish in the tank but only 1 is swimming upside down,
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sorry .......... :D maybe not enough oxygen in the tank.:confused: |
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i knew you'd take the micky,im gonna get a staw and blow some air in the tank dont know what else to do,i'd have to do some cpr if he died,kyle would be gutted
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slinky good advise or change 60 percent of water in tank
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im gonna go and change the water now be back in a min
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let us know how it goes Jacky |
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well you will have to get the other one to do back stroke and your next door will be at home
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changing some of the water seems to have helped,he's belly down for now,must have been lack of oxygen,thanks all
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can you see him its the big 1
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i need a bigger tank now,he's really greedy,hence the black small 1 being small
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the black 1 is a bottom feeder but the big 1 eats all the food so i have to put alot of food in hence the big fish
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lol scooby doo wouldnt shock him,all you have to do is walk into the kitchen and the fish blows bubbles onto the side of the tank and you can hear them popping,hes a really greedy fish
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i have my own scooby doo
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same fish as me i have two
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flashytart was selling a good tank
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Don't blow 'air' into the tank through a straw. That is your outgoing air and not oxygen rich. You've absorbed your oxygen from it when it was your incoming air. :(
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well the obvious thing to do is turn the tank over then it will be the right way up:D
mez had a fish that would swim upside down it had a damaged swim bladder |
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There will still be 16% Oxygen (O2) in the expired air as the human body only burn off about 4% of the 21% that is in normal air, there would be a slight increase in the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) within the water but the blowing through a straw should help but still need to get new pump.
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Oooh I stand corrected Ber. My Dad used to tell me not to add CO2 to already Oxygen depleted water.
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Any oxygen is better than none willow, as in the use of Mouth-to-Mouth (with a barrier now a days) is better than none at all but if your still not happy to do that the advice is to just do chest compressions and leave breathing until help arrives. Cant do much on fish so sorry for thread wander there
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:D for a minute there I was imagining chest compression on a fish!
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Next time I will read all the thread before commenting, I did not notice our local paramedic had said the same as me :o :D |
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tis OK! Neil I too sometimes jump in and then read through and find that the answer is there LOL
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something here if your fish decides to have a "lie down":D
http://www.provet.co.uk/fish/fishswim.htm |
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as some one said above swimbladder
dunno what the thing is but its something to do with digestion there's some stuff called melafix that shops sell - its paracetamol/anadin/laxative all in one for fish - its magic stuff. put in a dash of that if it does it again. its like an infection swimbladder is and this cures it |
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