Floating Clown
 

I have a percula clown that has lost control of his bouyancy, he still eats but is always floating on his side. I've put him in a tank by himself and he's been like this for about 4 days now, what can I do to help him?

How much and what have you been feeding him?? Could be something wrong with his swimbladder or an intestinal blockage.

Christy :)

about once a day , and I use "Sally's Marine Cuisine"

I once read Clowns can do this after eating Flake food. Can't remember where I read it. I was not sure what to believe. I think it would reverse itself from what I read.

Good luck

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Have you considered a swim bladder infection as the cause? A basic bacterial infection can be treated easliy enough and can take serveral days or even weeks to resolve. As long as it continues to eat you should be fine.

Marcus is right when i feed my fish too many flakes or floating pellets at once the float at the top.

It is a common disease in fancy goldfish due to obstruction of the swim bladder. There is even a surgical procedure to implant weights into the belly of the goldfish to give it some ballast.

help Nemo!!
 

once in a while i use flake , i wonder? what are the remedides for a swin bladder infection? or any other idea's would be appreciated.

Now this is what we used on our goldfish. Every year we have a couple "floaters" what we do is put them in a ice cream pale with aquarium salt and over a few days it all levels out. This seems to help with our Ryunkin and pearlscale goldfish.

i used to work at a pet store and a little trick of the trade we would take a few grains of aquarium salt and put it in thier mout but mind you this is for goldfish no gaurantee on this but you might try
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cant say it will work but you could try i have only done it on gold fish exelent sucess rate and no deaths
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let me know how it works