Floating Clown

[Kayleb]

I have a percula clown that has lost control of his bouyancy, he still eats but is always floating on his side. I've put him in a tank by himself and he's been like this for about 4 days now, what can I do to help him?

[christyf5]

How much and what have you been feeding him?? Could be something wrong with his swimbladder or an intestinal blockage.

Christy

[Kayleb]

about once a day , and I use "Sally's Marine Cuisine"

[Marcus K]

I once read Clowns can do this after eating Flake food. Can't remember where I read it. I was not sure what to believe. I think it would reverse itself from what I read.

Good luck

[danny zubot]

Have you considered a swim bladder infection as the cause? A basic bacterial infection can be treated easliy enough and can take serveral days or even weeks to resolve. As long as it continues to eat you should be fine.

[DOO-E]

Marcus is right when i feed my fish too many flakes or floating pellets at once the float at the top.

[trilinearmipmap]

It is a common disease in fancy goldfish due to obstruction of the swim bladder. There is even a surgical procedure to implant weights into the belly of the goldfish to give it some ballast.

[Kayleb]

once in a while i use flake , i wonder? what are the remedides for a swin bladder infection? or any other idea's would be appreciated.

[DOO-E]

Now this is what we used on our goldfish. Every year we have a couple "floaters" what we do is put them in a ice cream pale with aquarium salt and over a few days it all levels out. This seems to help with our Ryunkin and pearlscale goldfish.

[Stirfry]

i used to work at a pet store and a little trick of the trade we would take a few grains of aquarium salt and put it in thier mout but mind you this is for goldfish no gaurantee on this but you might try
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cant say it will work but you could try i have only done it on gold fish exelent sucess rate and no deaths
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let me know how it works