Tiger Barb With Lordosis?

[lionfishlover]

Hi There,

I have a tiger barb with a problem, please see the below video as describing it wouldnt give a good idea of what the problem is.

The tank has been running for close to a year but had a pH crash about May and lost all my fish, i restocked then with the current stock which is 4 BN pleco's, 4 Yoyo Loach's and 8 tiger barbs. Its always been a planted tank and has had co2 injection (hence why the pH crashed) but was changed from disposable welding bottles to full canister injection with a pH controller about a month ago.

Water conditions have always been stable at 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrite and about 20 nitrate.



Many Thanks, Scott

 

[WILDER]

So you are using ph adjusters, is this correct.

Looks like swim bladder to me.
What do you feed the fish?

Try some peas.

Cook frozen garden peas for a few minutes. let cool down and pop out of shell. Chop into small pieces and add to the tank.
Remove uneaten peas.

Can you isolate the sick fish.

Swim bladder is caused by
Bad water quality.
Unstable diet.
To many dried foods.
Bacterial infection of the swim bladder.
Constipation.
Internal parasites.
Injury.
Birth defect.
Unstable temp.

 

[lionfishlover]

So you are using ph adjusters, is this correct.

Looks like swim bladder to me.
What do you feed the fish?

Try some peas.

Cook frozen garden peas for a few minutes. let cool down and pop out of shell. Chop into small pieces and add to the tank.
Remove uneaten peas.

Can you isolate the sick fish.

Swim bladder is caused by
Bad water quality.
Unstable diet.
To many dried foods.
Bacterial infection of the swim bladder.
Constipation.
Internal parasites.
Injury.
Birth defect.
Unstable temp.

I dont use liquid pH adjusters, I have co2 injection which turns off and on by a co2 controller which keeps the pH between 7.0 and 7.2 at all times.

As the fish are relatively new I have been trying different things with their diet, firstly I was feeding with JBL NovoBel tropical flake, and sinking algae wafers for the pleco's but found that the tigers were eating everything and they got huge very quickly. I have recently been starving the tigers by only feeding algae wafers in the middle of the night so that the tigers were asleep. I have just begun to feed a very small amount of the flake again every few days.

The fish in question will not feed at the moment, although their next feed is due tomorrow and the fish seems to have perked up as previously it would only stay at the back of the tank but its now shoaling with the other tigers again.

I dont have a separate tank to isolate him in I am afraid, its something I know I need but getting the wife to agree to another tank isnt easy even when its small.

I will try the peas now and see how it goes, is there anything else I should try at the moment?

Cheers, Scott

 

[WILDER]

Introduce some frozen foods into there diet. You can buy blister packs with 4 different foods in them.
Introduce some green veg into there diet like peas, cabbage, sproats, spinach, broc, lettuce, cucumba.