Digiman Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi, I've a liopropoma which is suffering from decompression malady. It is swimming head down and struggling to swim balance not to float to the surface, but it is still eating very well. How can i cure it? Or the problem will slowly go off by itself? I heard on the net that the fish may slowly die of exhaustion if i dont catch it out and pierce the bladder to release the extra air, but it's v difficult for me to catch the fish and i dont have experience with venting fishes! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 10, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi, I've a liopropoma which is suffering from decompression malady. It is swimming head down and struggling to swim balance not to float to the surface, but it is still eating very well. How can i cure it? Or the problem will slowly go off by itself? I heard on the net that the fish may slowly die of exhaustion if i dont catch it out and pierce the bladder to release the extra air, but it's v difficult for me to catch the fish and i dont have experience with venting fishes! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You. Are you sure its decompression problem? It could be swim bladder disease, and if it is so, it is almost impossible to cure. just give good water quality and hopefully it will cure itself... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Are you sure its decompression problem? It could be swim bladder disease, and if it is so, it is almost impossible to cure. just give good water quality and hopefully it will cure itself... Hmm may be swim bladder disease, how to tell? no sign of bloated stomache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 10, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hmm may be swim bladder disease, how to tell? no sign of bloated stomache. Sometimes not neccesarily need to be bloated. Just try to imprive water quality and feed it good quality food, make sure it eat a variety of food to help it recover... All the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 Sometimes not neccesarily need to be bloated. Just try to imprive water quality and feed it good quality food, make sure it eat a variety of food to help it recover... All the best. This is a pic of it swimming, it's almost always in this state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 10, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 10, 2009 This is a pic of it swimming, it's almost always in this state. It does look abit fat. Can see the outline of the stomach. Probably swim bladder disease. I dont know if there is a cure.... Best is just try to let it enjoy the rest of its life. Feed is a variety of different foods to build immunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 It does look abit fat. Can see the outline of the stomach. Probably swim bladder disease. I dont know if there is a cure.... Best is just try to let it enjoy the rest of its life. Feed is a variety of different foods to build immunity Oh it's fat becos jux fed. If not the stomache quite sunken. Sad, it's quite a rare fish, hope it'll get well. Will update its condition in future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 10, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 10, 2009 Oh it's fat becos jux fed. If not the stomache quite sunken. Sad, it's quite a rare fish, hope it'll get well. Will update its condition in future. Oh. Well, then i dunno already. Yea.. why dun wan to get the stripey one? peppermint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Oh. Well, then i dunno already. Yea.. why dun wan to get the stripey one? peppermint. U mean liopropoma rubre (swissguard basslet), will probably get it as a substitute but muz wait for carribean shipment. The basslet i've shown is from Bali shipment which i got at a steal for $15 only. It's rare and does not even have a proper described name, web jux put it as Liopropoma Sp (or yellow tail basslet). LiveAquaria is selling one at US$89.99 and Marinecenter at US$119. That's why because of its rarity (and not its price) i hope it can survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 11, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 11, 2009 U mean liopropoma rubre (swissguard basslet), will probably get it as a substitute but muz wait for carribean shipment. The basslet i've shown is from Bali shipment which i got at a steal for $15 only. It's rare and does not even have a proper described name, web jux put it as Liopropoma Sp (or yellow tail basslet). LiveAquaria is selling one at US$89.99 and Marinecenter at US$119. That's why because of its rarity (and not its price) i hope it can survive. $15!? Oh... that seems very cheap. too cheap.. i would be suspicious, probably cyanide caught. Last time i bought a yasha goby for $5, died within 2 days. Way too cheap, usually means something is wrong. Learnt that the hard way =( Anyway, i hope ur fish survives, keep us updated ya? =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambystoma82 Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 jsut to add on e topic of fish getting caught in a cheap way n selling cheap... this is another way to beware of fish u buy jsut in case e LFS decide to sell e cynaide caught fish at e market price.. if e fish u r buying is rare n dun come often n suddenly it comes in large quantites there gt to b something wrong abt it... but then again some reputatable LFS might jsut keep more stock to jack e price(nt saying their fish is cynaide caught) but then again if they sell e cynaide caught fish at fewer quantities , then realli bo bian liaoz.z.z. but u help e next person by posting here... thus e lfs wun made another profit selling e poor cynaide fish.... nt very professional to sell e fish at fewer quantities again if they lookin for business.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 After 10 days of struggling, it finally gave in and died yesterday night. Sad now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 20, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 20, 2009 sorry to hear =( im hoping some of my fish will die too -.- Over crowding the tank and so hard to catch them out... best is for them to DIE!!! especially my triggerfish -.- i take out net only hide inside rock. cant even sell it to ppl.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senior Reefer yikai Posted January 20, 2009 Senior Reefer Share Posted January 20, 2009 OMG LA. i feel so hurt =( i was only joking.... if you cannot tell. haha. sorry if it seems like i was serious, but im not.... i felt hurt that u call me irresponsible haha. but im not, dont worry. im just trying to say that my tank is abit overcrowded now, trying to remove some but so hard -.- I thought that maybe my "joke" would cheer you up..... but im sorry if you got it the wrong way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 Ok this is my third attempt on this rare bali deepwater liopropoma. Let's hope this time no more buoyancy problems! L.Latifasciatum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuEl Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Ok this is my third attempt on this rare bali deepwater liopropoma. Let's hope this time no more buoyancy problems! L.Latifasciatum Hi bro, I've seen this fish at reborn. I think I tried 2 or 3 pieces. All gave in to decompression sickness plus fin rot. I think if it shows the same problems you might want to consider getting a second-hand CR and put the fish under pressure. It might work.. Quote Always something more important than fish. http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member marinebetta Posted November 18, 2009 SRC Member Share Posted November 18, 2009 Nice fish! Looks pretty good in your pics although it may be difficult to assess in shallow water. Usually I would shy away from any fish that looks like it might have floatation problems in the bag/tank as they are usually bad news. Good luck! Quote Intelligent people talk about ideas...... Average people talk about things...... Small people talk about other people...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digiman Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 Hi bro, I've seen this fish at reborn. I think I tried 2 or 3 pieces. All gave in to decompression sickness plus fin rot. I think if it shows the same problems you might want to consider getting a second-hand CR and put the fish under pressure. It might work.. Tks for the tips, but dun think i'll carry it out as too much trouble. Fishes with buoyancy problem almost 100% will die on me, and the deepwater lios collected from Bali are not handled well and all seem very prone to this problem. I'll stop trying if this one shows the same problem again. Nice fish! Looks pretty good in your pics although it may be difficult to assess in shallow water. Usually I would shy away from any fish that looks like it might have floatation problems in the bag/tank as they are usually bad news. Good luck! Normally they dun show any signs of decompresion sickness. They can be eating and swimming v well at the LFS and in my tank and after a week or two it'll one day suddenly lose its balance and after that i can only watch it struggle with a bloated belly and slowly wear out. There's a big 5 inches at Reborn which already shows the sign of swimming head down. Smaller specimen decompress better, but mine is not small, so the hope is low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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