recently i've artificially hatch a large batch of balloon ram's eggs...however,i have some worries bout the frys! about 60% of the frys seems to stay on tops of the tanks-on the surface! i wonder y this is happening...the ph is around 6.0 to 6.5! i try to make them swims down but then...it came back up again..almost all accumulating one one corner!! it doesnt seems be breathing heavily like those fish in lack-oxygen water...it just 'up'!! Y? Y?
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balloon ram's fry problem!
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One problem with breeding severly inbred fish is that inherited health problems are maginied each generation. I suspect that the ballon ram fry you are raising have swim bladder problems.
You should try the normal rams... they are quite beautiful.
You should try the normal rams... they are quite beautiful.
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I agree with Ted. Baloon-shaped fish have a deformed body in which the swim bladder often cannot keep the fish in a normal position. Sometimes it is so severe that the fish cannot swim & slowly die of malnutrition. Others (very common in fancy goldfish) will produce gas in their intestinal tract that counteracts to normal buyancy of the swim bladder. After a heavy meal the fish will float upsidedown on the surface of the water.
