Bloat? Swim Bladder? HELP!!!!!
- Thread starter el wadd
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I wouldn't feed pellets right before you go to bed. I only feed mine tiny discus pellets and that's when I get home from work around 5 pm and throw flakes in too. About 3 hours later they get frozen bloodworms. My light timer is set to go off at 9:30 so that gives them 1.5 hours to find the bloodworms in the plants. Occasionally I put an algae wafer in the tank in the dark in the plants right by the driftwood....discus won't get it there, it's too dark (I hope) but I do have 2 bristlenose and 6 cories in there that need an occasional algae wafer. Feeding pelleted food earlier in the day or early evening would give you a chance to observe if one of the discus overfed on dry pellets. What happens is the overeaten dry pellets eventually swell with fluids once inside the fish's stomach and the stomach is forced to expand to beyond it's normal capacity. You may never get another one who will overeat like that. But if you're like me, once it happens, you do everything you can to prevent it from happening again. Occasionally they will die. I think getting them into the hospital tank witht he epsom salts quickly is the key. As I said, if you fed them right before you went to bed, within an hour or so he was already bloating up. So that was many hours ago with no treatment for relief.
El wadd - you hit the nail on the head with your 3:57 post, I didn't see it before I answered you.
