Help - 22" Super RED is lossing Buoyancy....

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Originally Posted by Zhuoyuting

Swimming bladder issue... Huge is how huge? 2ft?
Dose epsom salt.

There a thread regarding about swimming bladder issue.
Kindly do a search function.

Originally Posted by SIOWARO

Water peremeter too great diff, possible the ph( check)or the dept of the tank, better ask help from those who have experience transferring fish from pond to tank or tank to pond.

Originally Posted by azon

I did a tranfer of my red from tank to pond and due to the different in temp, my red floated at the surface for about a week and it went back to normal later..

Originally Posted by Aqua-fanactic

Reduce the water level so that it is slightly higher than the back of the aro + warm the water temperature to 30 deg and throw in some Epsom salt.

Do not feed and slowly top up water when you see Aro submerge. Good luck.

Originally Posted by ARK

Sudden drop or change in PH might cause the Aro to gasp air and excessive air trapped in the swim bladder which cause the Aro to lost its neutral buoyancy.Epsom salt doesn't help in this case,try to dose 500 gram if salt for every 100 litre water and monitor, if the fish overturned,hold it upright with a partition .

THANKS, FOR THE VALUABLE ANSWERS, You guys hit the spot!
Can I dose with lesser Salt? as I have 2 huge pair of Rays inside this FGT also.