Monday, August 8, 2011
Bloated fish. I need help diagnosing. Please HELP!?
You only need to feed your fish once a day. Only feed what they will eat within 2-3 minutes. A fishes stomach is only as big as their eye so they don't need that much food to be full but yet if you put the food in most fish will eat and eat. Could the bloating be caused by constipation? If so, you can feed them a frozen, plain pea. Just cook it and squeeze it out of the outer skin and mush it up and feed it to them. Then don't feed them the next day. This works as a kind of laxative and will clean out a fishes digestive tract. I would also recommend feeding a variety of foods. You can still feed flakes and freeze dried foods but try feeding frozen food once or twice a week. Sometimes feeding only dried forms of food can cause constipation in fish. I get my frozen food at petco or petsmart and it's not expensive at all. It comes in little frozen cubes and contains many different things such as bloodworms, shrimp, cyclops, daphnia and other yummy things my fish go crazy for. I just pop a cube in a cup and add alittle tank water to the cup so that it starts thawing right away. I use a turkey baster and slowly drop some in for the fish. Make sure again not to overfeed cuz they will gobble it up fast. The packages of frozen food says you can just pop the cube into the tank but I don't do that because I don't have that many fish in one tank and it would be way too much food in the tank and make the water bad. I also think that it benefits fish to fast them at least one day every 2 weeks. Our fish are very well feed unlike in the wild where they can go days without getting much food. One other thing that I have heard can happen with gouramis is that they start gulping too much air at the top and can bloat up. Keep an eye out for that. I would just keep a close eye on your current fish and maybe try the pea and a day of fasting. Then mix up the diet and see how that goes. I hope Jules stays active, healthy and happy for a long time to come.
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