Fish acting strange.

[Calvin and Kyle]

Hey guys, I recently cycled my tank! It's been up and running fully cycled with fish for about a month.
30 gallon, heated and filtered.
I have 3 tiger barbs
3 green tiger barbs.
1 peacock eel.
1 nerite snail
1 ivory snail
1 blue ram cichlid
1 bristle nose albino pleco.

I just added the ram and the pleco.

But I noticed one green tiger barb seems rather FAT! And will spend a lot of time at the surface.

I checked my levels
0 ammonia,
0 nitrites
20-40 nitrates more towards 20.

What's wrong?

 

[Calvin and Kyle]

I'm thinking maybe a swim bladder problem?

 

[Sambo7475]

Is he listing to the side, or rolling back toward his tail?
What are you feeing them? Could he be constipated?
I had a head and tail light tetra that was doing that, I fed some blanched, skinned and crushed peas. He pooped a rope, and has been fine since (about 6 months). I now feed the peas weekly.

 

[Calvin and Kyle]

Well do to the variety of fish, I rotate food.

Every 3 days I put in some frozen bloodworms (mostly for the eel) which I only put in a little bit at time never a whole cube!

Color enchanting flake food for the barbs, that's every other day.

And an algae wafer every 3 days.

No feed every Friday, and one other day of the week.

He sometimes will kinda go sideways or backwards almost upside for a second, the. He will quickly swim back upright. He may have got a hold of more bloodworms last night than he should have. Idk if he did but he is just so fat compared to the others.

Everyone else is fine btw.

 

[Calvin and Kyle]

Anybody else have any ideas? I hope it's not a disease. I did a 25% water change today to be safe.

 

[thursyanna]

Anybody else have any ideas? I hope it's not a disease. I did a 25% water change today to be safe.

My giant gourami started out like that and it ended up being dropsy from what I read on it. He didn't make it. You might read up on that to see if that's what he has. If so, you might need to quarantene him. Sorry, I hope he gets better!

 

[Calvin and Kyle]

Okay, I read up on dropsy. And it sounds pretty similar! So does swim bladder infection. If by tomorrow he isn't better I might have to get rid of em. I don't have a quarantine tank, so I can't do much about that. :| I vacuumed the gravel when I did my water change today, just in case it had anything to do with bad water contaminates.

 

[thursyanna]

You might see if feeding him a blanched pea would help. I tried epson salt and API Lifeguard but that didn't help. I don't know if a pea would help him poop and "fix" him but someone else might know the answer.

 

[Calvin and Kyle]

Well, today he looked a little worse if anything. His eyes were so bugged outward and he just kinda chilled in one area of the tank. So I got rid of em.

Thanks for you help guys. I appreciate it.