charmedlife1986
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Jan 18, 2017
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My son got a 5 gallon tank with accessories for xmas from his Grammy and ended up getting 2 Pictus Catfish for it along with swordtails, tiger barbs and molly fish. All was fine when one tiger and one molly, within a day of one another, had gotten sucked into the bottom of the submerged filter before slowly they starting to swim different, like swimming upside down, at an angle, fin facing the sky and unable to maintain their buoyancy it appeared. I had thought it was due to being sucked into the filter and getting injured but now the 2 Pictus Catfish who have not been sucked into the filter and also couldn't be anyways, due to them being larger in size (too large to even fit), have started swimming erratically. When they first arrived about a month ago, they stayed on the left wall going from the front to the back of the tank along the waters surface as they were not accustomed to their new home (or so I've read that that's why they start out swimming in that pattern) and just last week they FINALLY cane out into the middle of the tank, swimming on the bottom as a normal fish, but then early this morning we noticed them swimming erratically, as if they can't balance their buoyancy and are swimming upside down, on their sides, facing straight down and also at times doing barrel rolls. Somewhat similar to the other fish after those fish had their filter incidents. I have read about swimming bladder but can't get n exactly clear treatment method besides they all agree on the pea method. HELP ME?!