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

[striker78]

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.

[ARK]

Originally Posted by striker78

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.

Yes dissolved salt

[matthew]

juz to share my exp,
i got this big red tat suffers from trapped air for very long (ard 4mths) .
.was in a 5ft tank when it occur...transfered to 6ft fgt...also same.
tried releasing the trapped air...was ok for a while...den came back.

Nw rented a pond 6m x 3m and transfered it over.
It no longer stay at the top so often...most of the time...swiming below.
I believe the length of the pond cured it as it has more than enuf swiming space for it to play ard.

[Zhuoyuting]

Originally Posted by matthew

juz to share my exp,
i got this big red tat suffers from trapped air for very long (ard 4mths) .
.was in a 5ft tank when it occur...transfered to 6ft fgt...also same.
tried releasing the trapped air...was ok for a while...den came back.

Nw rented a pond 6m x 3m and transfered it over.
It no longer stay at the top so often...most of the time...swiming below.
I believe the length of the pond cured it as it has more than enuf swiming space for it to play ard.

Could it be the natural elements that is in the ponds help to heal the issue?

Question: when you first transfer to the pond is it still the same floating at the surface or after a while it started to swim below?

[KANCE]

normally throw inside the nature pond or concrete pond most of the probs solved by itself.

[tancho]

My red had the same problem last week. It wouldn't dive and only swam at the water surface with its back above the water for a couple of days.

I dosed with Epsom salt and cured it in less than 24 hours. I believe the Epsom salt enabled the trapped air to be released due to the property of the substance as a laxative.

Rgds