The behavior You notice your fish continually swimming in circles What it could mean Although some circular movement is normal a fish and particularly a goldfish that is constantly swimming in circles especially in a rapid darting motion could have ammonia poisoning. Low water temperature can slow the digestive process which in turn can result in gastrointestinal tract enlargement that puts pressure on the swim bladder. Other abdominal organs may become enlarged and affect the swim bladder. This helps decrease fish from swallowing too much air when feeding.

Ammonia poisoning can happen in an aquarium when ammonia and

Oscar fish Cysts in the kidneys fatty deposits in the liver or egg binding in female fish can result in sufficient enlargement to affect the swim bladder. Adding aquarium salt helps decrease the stress of the fish. If necessary there are swim bladder treatments available over the counter. These can be used if the disease is caused by an infection of the swim bladder. Betta fish often swim up and down the glass when they are stressed in their tanks. By lerdsuwa own photo gfdl cc-by-sa-3.0 or cc by-sa 2.5-2.0-1.0 via wikimedia commons My family has a fish tank and the fish have been doing fine for months however just this morning we discovered one of our fish a tiger barb puntius tetrazona keeps swimming vertical with it s head down. It use to swim normal just the other day but now it s constantly moving it s tale swimming vertical with it s head in the downward direction.

The algae eater appears to be doing fine. The female cichlid however has been in a corner of the tank near the top swimming almost vertically just sort of hanging around. If disturbed she swims away at a normal keel. But she returns back to that corner and resumes the head down vertical hovering. I m sorry to hear your fish have these symptoms. By twirling i think you mean swimming in a corkscrew fashion If that s the case i haven t found a way to treat it. I ve read that it is a loss of muscle control caused by parasites or some nervous system or brain damage.

One of my guppies came down with this when i first got back into fish Sick fish the signs of stress and disease this page contains a list of some signs of stress and disease that you should learn to recognize on your tropical fish and goldfish.. Clamped fins the fish clamps its fins close against the its body. Experienced aquarists use this to quickly spot problems with their fish. Fish suffering from the shimmies rock from side to side an action known as shimmying. There are often other odd postural or behavioral traits associated with the shimmies including clamped fins head shaking yawning and labored or heavy breathing.

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