Angelfish Swimbladder Issue

hi, I got home today to find my angelfish stuck in my plants upside down. He was perfectly fine before I left in the morning. I don’t know what to do? I have given him some peas. Please help.

 

Can you turn him right side up and see if/how long he stays that way?

 

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Can you turn him right side up and see if/how long he stays that way?

he just gradually flipped back other, he is in an isolation net at the moment

 

Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank so you can treat him for swim bladder issues individually? That should be your next move.

 

Do you have a quarantine/hospital tank so you can treat him for swim bladder issues individually? That should be your next move.

I don’t have a hospital tank but he is in net on his own. For medication I’m not sure what I should use I have a bottle esha 2000 finrot, fungus and bacteria, and the tank is already getting treated with esha exit antI white spot, this is for a different fish

 

Treatment depends on severity and what else is in the tank. Can he swim at all? And does he sink to the bottom or just float upside down?

 

Treatment depends on severity and what else is in the tank. Can he swim at all? And does he sink to the bottom or just float upside down?

At the moment he is laying down in the net, in the tank there is another angelfish a blue Acara, sajica, 2 rainbow cichlids and a featherfin catfish, loaches and pleco

 

I am sorry to hear about your angelfish problem - this isn't a suggestion as to a cure, but to make him more comfortable really - I had a small upright plastic container the same height as my quarrantine tank - put some stones in it to weight it down and cornered off a small area that was wide enough for the angel but too narrow for him to flip over - once I set him upright he was relatively un-stressed. He did die in the end as the swimbladder meds didnt work but at least I saved him the distress of going over all the time - he was really panicking before I did that.

 

Ok, that's helpful. None of those fish require different dosing as far as I know. Would you be willing to let him out of the net for a moment and see if he can float at all?

 

I had a similar issue with one of my angels. I think he over-ate. He was nose down, floating to the surface, trying to stay down. I put him in a net like you did with floating plants to prevent him from drying out because he was floating. I wanted him to be able to relax a bit away from the other angels. I was pretty confident he was constipated because he ate too many pellets, so I was going to dose epsom salts in the tank, but actually didn't. He was fine the next day, upright and straight. Annnnnd a bunch of poop on the bottom. I moved him still in the net to test whether he could keep equilibrium on his own. I figured he could, let him go and he was fine ever since and went on to become second alfa male.

Just wondering, did the angel over-eat?

 

Thanks for the support but sadly he has just died

 

Oh no! I am so so sorry Such a beautiful angel RIP