Hmmm Got Me Stumped

[modaz]

2 of my fry seem to be swimming around with what i can best describe as a seesaw motion never seen this before in any betta, stats are perfect, the other fry are fine, the 2 are eating great and managing to interact easily, theyve been doing it for a couple of days now. any ideas?

 

[WILDER]

Do you mean swimming in a jerky movement.
Young fry are very prone to flukes.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Check the gills over to see if there inflamed, or pale with excess mucas on them.

 

[modaz]

Do you mean swimming in a jerky movement.
Young fry are very prone to flukes.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Check the gills over to see if there inflamed, or pale with excess mucas on them.

all appearences and movements all seem fine in them, they aint changed at all, shamed to admit that i spend most of my time clued to the side of the tank . its not a jerking motion but more like tail down then head down like they are rocking as they swim. did try to get a vid but my camera wont take this vid in focus.....sorry as this wouldve helped.

 

[WILDER]

Thats signs of swim bladder head standing.
Have they bloated up.

 

[modaz]

Thats signs of swim bladder head standing.
Have they bloated up.

not at all bloated, i did think it was swim bladder but needed to check first as dont want to add the wrong meds and not cure what is obviously the first signs of something

 

[WILDER]

Had a good link once but the site went down.
Other signs of swim bladder is that it look like the tail is weighing them down.
http/www.tropicalfishdata.com/disease/go...r_problems.html

 

[WILDER]

How old are the fry you could mush some peas up into very small peices, but very small peices so they don't choke or get the pea lodged i n there mouths.
I fed fry peas to keep them going to the toilet.

 

[modaz]

Had a good link once but the site went down.
Other signs of swim bladder is that it look like the tail is weighing them down.
http/www.tropicalfishdata.com/disease/go...r_problems.html

thanks just read it, thing is, is that they are 7 weeks old so not to keen on not feeding for a lengthy period of time, they are slow in growth as it is, been feeding them on microworms 5 days week and finely crushed flake 2 days as they just dont eat newly hatched brines even though they are big enough to and have tried 4 times now, my other batches of fry eat the brine with no problems .

 

[WILDER]

There something wrong with them if there not growing to well, not eating to well.
Could be looking at internal parasites to alot of things.
Might be better of cutting your losses.
Sorry bless them.