Help! Dying Dwarf Gourami With Swollen Belly!

[memder]

This the second time I have the same problem.

I got a blue dwarf gourami. It looked fine in the store. But on the second day I got it home, it developed a enlarged belly and always floated on the surface of the water. And very rapidly, it is getting worse. Now it is just hanging on the top of the tank and seems very difficult to move. I think it is dying. I put it in salt water.

Please, let me know what is wrong and how I cam save the poor guy. THANKS!

 

[memder]

O.K. The poor guy just died. I am too late to ask. But I still would like to know why.

Every thing is good with my water. My other fish is good. I do a 25% change of water every 3 days. I feed them with BetaMin.

I keep other fish alive(including a red dwarf gourami), but just can not do it with blue gourami.

This the second time I have the same problem.

I got a blue dwarf gourami. It looked fine in the store. But on the second day I got it home, it developed a enlarged belly and always floated on the surface of the water. And very rapidly, it is getting worse. Now it is just hanging on the top of the tank and seems very difficult to move. I think it is dying. I put it in salt water.

Please, let me know what is wrong and how I cam save the poor guy. THANKS!

 

[WILDER]

R.I.P.
What do you feed your fish?

 

[shelaghfishface]

i had exactly the same thing happen not very long ago,--dwarf gourami too, he was really bloated,i had no idea what it was either ,sad

shelagh xxx

 

[memder]

BettaMin. It's actually food for betta. But I use it for all my tropical fish. All other fish seems fine with it.

R.I.P.
What do you feed your fish?

 

[WILDER]

Need a variety of frozen foods and veg in there diets.
Soak the pellets in tank water till there soft.