Angelfish Swim Bladder Problem

[FishDreamer48]

I didn't see another forum to post this in so I hope this is the correct place. My mother has an angelfish that seems to have a swim bladder problem and has had it for the last three weeks. It swims on it side most of the time and except for an eye problem from before it is fine. Someone told her sister that this is caused my a copper deficiency and you can put a penny in the water to take care of that. I told her to take the penny out until we were sure. I know copper is bad for shrimp, but there is copper sulfate in a lot of fish foods. So is this true or is there some sort of vitamin supplement we can give this angelfish that won't hurt the rest of the community fish in the tank?

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[wackorash84]

I didn't see another forum to post this in so I hope this is the correct place. My mother has an angelfish that seems to have a swim bladder problem and has had it for the last three weeks. It swims on it side most of the time and except for an eye problem from before it is fine. Someone told her sister that this is caused my a copper deficiency and you can put a penny in the water to take care of that. I told her to take the penny out until we were sure. I know copper is bad for shrimp, but there is copper sulfate in a lot of fish foods. So is this true or is there some sort of vitamin supplement we can give this angelfish that won't hurt the rest of the community fish in the tank?

Thanks post or pm with responses.

Heard that copper above a certain amount gets dangerous:-

Dangerous level of Copper for Shrimps is 0.03mg per litre.
Dangerous level of Copper for Algae and bacteria is 0.08mg per litre.
Dangerous level of Copper for Fish, snails and plants is 0.10mg per litre.

I would separate it into a stable and cycled hospital aquarium as it might get stressed out being picked on my other fishes.

Then if it's still eating try the peas. It's worked for me before.

So let's just be hopefull that it's nothing serious.