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Can blunt trauma cause swim bladder2007-11-24 23:10:32

A toddler got into my fish tank with the net, and my fish has been floating upside-down ever since (three full days now). At first, I thought it was dying from being scared or hit with the net. Now I'm thinking it has swim bladder. The question is: Was that caused by the incident with the net, or is it just a coincidence? Would this have happened regardless?

Answers:

As you have guess, I think it's swim bladder problem too.

But I never encounter any situation where rough handling lead to to swim bladder problem. I would think it was probably a coincidence. I believe it would have happen even if the toddler didn't mess up the tank.

What I believe he did was probably to stir up the gravel in your tank, thereby loosening all the waste trap in the gravel, that (the additional bio-waste) probably mess up your water really fast and over-loaded your filter, the bad water could give rise to the swim bladder problem.

If you have thick gravel, there is the possibility that there might be low level of hydrogen sulfide due to anaerobic metabolism, this will also cause serious problem if it's present and release to the tank water due to a disturbance of the gravel.

If your gravel is mess up these are the possibilities. As for treating swim bladder problem you could refer to this . http://www.arofanatics.com/members/drago...

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This is a tricky question. It could be from swim bladder problem when feeding instead the blunt trama because it will instanly kill the fish.