Swim bladder problem

[VeiltailGuy]

I have a veil that developed a swim bladder problem. As you can see in pic the, the fish is distended on one side forcing it in a almost completely curled position, it confined to the bottom of the aquarium most of the day and tries to swim occasionally. He was being fed flake, pellet and bloodworms, on advice from Dave, I cranked up the heat to 84 to hopefully jump start the immune system if it was some sort of bacterial gut infection, also added Epsom at 1 teaspoon per 10 gallons and have been feeding only duckweed for a few days with almost no improvement....dos anyone else have any suggestions?

P.S. all the junk floating in the tank if from me changing filter pads, duckweed is messy!:exact:

[Veil Gal]

It doesn't look good. How long have you heated the water, and other treatments?

[HNLim]

There is only one product that have worked for me so far. It will give complete recovery. In Singapore, the product is known as "Nika" Float-Aid.

I have used this product some 2 to 3 years ago and it has cure 2 telescope eye and one even won 1sxt placing in one of the competition. I have also just cured two orandas, one just like your fish lying on its side for about 3 weeks. I decided to treat it after I found an old bottle of Float-Aid which was left in my cabinet for about 2 years. I went to as many LFS as I could and am not able to locate any more and was told that it is no more on sale. The active ingredient is: Mag. glycerinophosphate Ca.thiosulfate, C5H11NO2S. Anyone knows what it is?

[Cincy Ranchu]

I f you have a pond with lots of algae, chuck him in there and do not feed sometimes making them eat algae cures them

[VeiltailGuy]

no other treatments, heated water for 3 days now. no change, i think im going to chuck him in the greenhouse like Gary suggested, don't have another choice!

[judge]

I have a veil that developed a swim bladder problem. As you can see in pic the, the fish is distended on one side forcing it in a almost completely curled position, it confined to the bottom of the aquarium most of the day and tries to swim occasionally. He was being fed flake, pellet and bloodworms, on advice from Dave, I cranked up the heat to 84 to hopefully jump start the immune system if it was some sort of bacterial gut infection, also added Epsom at 1 teaspoon per 10 gallons and have been feeding only duckweed for a few days with almost no improvement....dos anyone else have any suggestions?

P.S. all the junk floating in the tank if from me changing filter pads, duckweed is messy!:exact:

Looks like an internal bacterial infection. Have you tried putting Tetracycline or Meracyn 2. Also if the fish is still eating please get Jungle antibacterial fish food and try to feed him. You can buy this in petsmart. Hope its not too late to save this little guy. If the swimbladder is totally flat or if the fish is unable to do gas exchange then there is little you can do about it at that point. :(

Hope the little guy can fight it off.

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&resnum=0&q=jungle+medicated+fish+food&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=QQxtS4OaNIbOsQOI7OGxDQ&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBsQrQQwAw

[bekko]

I agree with judge. It does not look like a swim bladder problem.

-steve

[flaringshutter]

I agree with judge as well. That kind of lopsided bloating is definitely not swimbladder. Give the Jungle Labs food a shot, I've used it with great success in the past.