What the heck is wrong with my peacock gudgeon?

captmicha

captmicha

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He's swimming sideways all of a sudden (flat side down). He's able to right himself but seems to have trouble staying right side up. It's very recent, I only observed this last night and today. His color and appetite and everything else seem fine. None of the other fish are effected or showing any signs of anything.

Recently, my gravid female peacock gudgeon died from what I thought were pregnancy complications. She was looking and acting fine until I just found her dead. This was in my 5 gallon peacock gudgeon breeding tank with just the two peacock gudgeons in it. I've had these fish for over a year.

So I needed their 5 gallon for quarantine for some new fish so I took the male out and put him in my 2.5 gallon fry grow up tank where he's now.

The tank is due for a routine water change and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary regarding water parems or anything. Everything is the same as usual and the temps are around 78 degrees. Should I just swim for swim bladder disease? I'm wondering if that's really the diagnosis when the female never showed signs of locomotion problems.
 
I'm not sure what this could be. My cockatoo cichlids are suffering from basically the same thing, except they won't eat! I'm not sure what to diagnose mine as, but swim bladder for yours does sound a like a very good possibility!!
 
He's so tiny, I can't even tell if one of his flippers are messed up. Because it's what I had on hand and because I don't want to mess around, I dosed with Maracyn Plus last night. If it is a bacteria infection, I want to treat it now instead of losing him and his current tank mates. Seems that it's infectious if his tank mate died and then he starts showing buoyancy problems soon after.

ppetropulo, if I were you, I'd use the same med on the cichlids since it treats internal infections without them having to eat it.
 
He's much worse. I don't know what's going on. It looks like whirling disease but from what I understand, that's pretty rare and also, I've had him and the female (that died) for over a year, and they've always been in their own tank all by their selves.

Here's a video if it helps: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v165/captmicha/?action=view&current=P1030858.mp4

I don't understand why I keep reading all over the place that peas are supposed to cure this. What the heck does the digestive tract and constipation have to do with the swim bladder?
 
I threw some parasite meds AND bacteria meds at him and he's much better.

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