Hey there, I just came home and one of my daughters gold fish is floating upside down, he is still alive but as soon as he stops swimming around he turns upside down and floats to the top of the bowl, when he starts swimming again he turns right way up! Has his swim bladder or whatever you call it been busted, can he survive like this or should I put him out of his misery. Can I fix him? What is the best way to put down a gold fish? Flushing him seems like a really horrible way to go. What caused him to get like this and will it happen to my other fish?
my gold fish is alive but floating upside down, will he be O.K?
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noselessman
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ive heard of people feeding them boiled peeled peas and that it might make him better, but please never flush an animal in the toilet, thats not an exceptable way to deal with living breathing creature, i cant beleive people do that, its like, well i couldnt take my dog to the vet so i tied it to a tree and left it in the woods,
i will tell you what i was told, but there is controversy and it may be completely wrong, but if a fish is really really sick and suffuring, i heard if you put it in a bag of water , like they do when you buy it at the store, and put it in the freezer, that they will die without pain as there blood temp drops. dieing long before freezing starts. it still seems wrong to me, but better than flushing, cause its gonna still be alive win it drops into the sewer and lands in a pile of who knows what
i will tell you what i was told, but there is controversy and it may be completely wrong, but if a fish is really really sick and suffuring, i heard if you put it in a bag of water , like they do when you buy it at the store, and put it in the freezer, that they will die without pain as there blood temp drops. dieing long before freezing starts. it still seems wrong to me, but better than flushing, cause its gonna still be alive win it drops into the sewer and lands in a pile of who knows what
snowflake311
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you can only fix him if you know what it is that is wrong. I would do a water change.
Bowl??? what size tank are they in? what kind of maintenance are you doing on the tank?
Goldfish can live to be well over 10 years in right conditions.
Bowl??? what size tank are they in? what kind of maintenance are you doing on the tank?
Goldfish can live to be well over 10 years in right conditions.
I've saved a few goldfish from an upside down state. DON'T FLUSH THEM. I've seen it with my own two eyes - they're not a lost cause. Here's a simple website explain swim bladder disease. Why it's cause, what to do to prevent it, how to treat it, etc.
www.geocities.com/swimbladderhelp/index.html
It was probably cause by swallowing air. Innocent enough. If you don't pre-soak flake food they will come up to the surface, and BAM, they swallow air. Feeding pea's is how I cured mine. After they are treated they bounce back to life pretty well and can live contently without noticing their occasional trouble to swim. It doesn't hurt them, by the way.
www.geocities.com/swimbladderhelp/index.html
It was probably cause by swallowing air. Innocent enough. If you don't pre-soak flake food they will come up to the surface, and BAM, they swallow air. Feeding pea's is how I cured mine. After they are treated they bounce back to life pretty well and can live contently without noticing their occasional trouble to swim. It doesn't hurt them, by the way.
Scorpio Girl
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His Going to Die . His Old , goldfish dont tend to live very long 
Zac Abraham
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He has an illness, did ya recently introduce a new fish to the aquarium? My old fish had that and he died the next day. you should isolate him and give him extra care, if you don't he will most likely die, but.