contagious swim bladder?

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Valous

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So I need some help, cause I am at a total lost on what's going on. It all started on the 7th when a tiger barb died. I thought maybe it chocked on a fake plant because he looked healthy the night before. Then the following Saturday our clown loaches was swimming at the top with his nose up and tail down. He didn't make it as found him flat on the substrate on Monday. Since then we have lost 2 or 3 more tiger barbs. All which start swimming funny and 12 hrs later they are dead. They don't look beaten up.

My only other thought was low oxygen as they all seem to swim upwards at the top but I dropped the water level to just about the spray bar and added a power head to help break the other side up. Still no luck as of yet.

Tank info: 75gal with 200 watt heater. Tank stays at 77-76.
Ammonia:0
Nitrites:0
Nitrates: 10ppm

Stock was before deaths were:
1 clown loache about 2 inch
3 tiger / 3 green tiger barbs
6 neon tetra
6 red fin columbia tetra
2 dwarf groumi
2 2" bushy nose plecos

Any help would be great.
 
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