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What it means when koi fish swim sideways and upside down.

Big fish pond. 2 hours later 1 more koi same size was upside down in my pond. Today i have anoth. Yesterday our koi seemed fine.

It could be a partial chlorine poisoning burning the gills and depriving the koi. Swimming upside down behaviour is often the most serious symptom when it comes to swimming behaviour as this often indicates a problem with the kois swim bladder. I have separate them in a inside 20 gallon thank with lot of aireation.

Hello we have about a 150 200 gallon outside pond with about 15 fish all goldfish but the koi. The signs of a swim bladder problem include lying on their sides and floating upside down. When affected by swim bladder disorder fish will often lose the ability to properly swim.

With proper care you may be able to treat this disease and get your goldfish back to good health. Yesterday morning i found 2 of my kois about 8 each swimming upside down. If the koi swims upside down and yet acts odd it could be many things many times not the swim bladder.

The swim bladder is what your koi uses to regulate pressure while floating and changes in pressure or disease viral or bacterial can cause the fish to lose control of this function. Two weeks ago one of my koi was lying upside down on the bottom of the pond although still alive it was clearly in some distress having tested the water all results came back good. Constipation enlarged organs or infection can all cause the swim bladder to stop functioning properly.

This morning we had some heavy rain came home from work to find our koi upside down no movement but breathing. Yesterday knight i reached home one of them got well and the other one was still upside down. If you mean a koi is constantly swimming upside down then the fish has a damaged swim bladder and is very sick.

Fish in general are only supposed to swim with a vertical posture and swimming any other way could be a sign of internal problems. Heres the reason behind a fish that floats upside down yet remains alive. The impaired buoyancy in fish is caused by a malfunction of their swim bladder.

It sometimes points to a problem with its swim bladder but not always. If your goldfish is swimming sideways or upside down it may have swim bladder disorder. It will probably die if you cant get some proper treatment for it.

My koi fish is swimming erratically and keep flipping upside down. They will float uncontrollably to the top of the aquarium turned upside down while still being alive. It isnt normal for a fish to swim this way.