How do you prefer to cure bloat

[Mattyou]

Just like it says. How do you usually deal with a case of....OH CRAP my fish is listing this morning and bloating? Gotta be at work in 30 mins and time is beyond tight.

 

[Mattyou]

So no one here has ever had a fish with bloat?

 

[fisheater]

Epsom salt.Though ive never saved one but thats what i was told to do and do.Maybe ive always caught it too late.

 

[svtim]

Well a lil prune juice never hurt just kiding but I wonder if prunes would hurt fish if they ate it

 

[Mattyou]

LOL I dont know. I have lost 2 fish in the last year to bloat, and never have been able to beat it. I have tried all of the above methods, but nothing seems to work besides the net and shovel cure. I was just wondering if anyone else see's bloat as the kiss of death once you see it it is to late.

 

[BarroomHero]

I've read that once the secondary symptoms are visible, e.g. the listlessness & bloating, that its usually too late at that point. I just lost one of my favorite african cichlids to bloat.

 

[Mattyou]

Bloat, the silent killer of the Aquaria. Once they float from bloat, get the net and shovel man, it is a fast killer.

 

[BarroomHero]

Bloat, the silent killer of the Aquaria. Once they float from bloat, get the net and shovel man, it is a fast killer.

The one I just lost hadn't been eating for a few days and started to breathe a little heavier than usual. I treated him with jungle parasite clear & Epsom salt. He continued to get worse even with the treatment and died 2 days after I started treating.

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

ditto on the epsom salt, and then try some metro

 

[Camshaft Ramrod]

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