Swim Bladder Treatment

[tenohfive]

One of my recently added hatchets has developed a swim bladder problem. Established tank, will double check ammonia in a minute but I'd be surprised if there's anything showing. My knowledge of fish treatments isn't great, but I seem to recall upping the temp, adding aquarium salt and some sort of treatment for the likely cause (bacteral infection?) is supposed to be the way to go.

Is that right, and what do I need to be treating with? I've got a few potions and lotions that I've acquired over the years.

 

[loraxchick]

SB is a symptom and not an outright disease itself. can be caused by injury, constipation, rapid swings in temp, bacterial or parasitic infection. Any other signs? Flicking/rubbing white stringy poo, spitting out food, bloated or skinny?
id recommend not feeding for 2 days and see how it goes from there. SB generally sorts itself out but in some cases the damage is done and wont ever fully recover-as long as the fish can eat and swim relatively normally, no need to euthanize.
all the best
cheers

 

[tenohfive]

I'd not fed them since adding them 2 days ago - it was a fairly large tank addition so was keeping ammonia output down. No other symptoms prior to this starting that I saw, and since it's happened the hatchet can't control it's buoyancy at all - it rotates through 360 degrees as the flow takes it, it has literally no control over where it goes. It was trying but not very successfully.

I've moved the hatchet over to a 85L quarantine tank and added aquarium salt and myxazin in as an initial treatment. No improvement in the hour or so since I moved her in there, but she's still trying to swim - you can see her tail going. Will monitor for the next day or so and see where I go from there.

 

[loraxchick]

sounds like a reasonable plan!
cheers