A short instructional YouTube clip by Gerald Bassleer describing swim bladder disorder in fancy goldfish (upside-down swimming and floating) caused by surface-feeding that leads to excess air intake. The speaker compares normal and deformed swim bladders (radiographic images) and recommends feeding sinking granular food—specifically citing Dr. Basler Bifish herbal—to reduce the problem.
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Upside down swimming of fancy goldfish or swim bladder disorder that is a common problem in our ornamental fancy goldfish Here we see a case of giving floating flake food to a fancy goldfish he likes to eat at the surface but eating at the surface also means that after one hour feeding he has been taking in extra air extra air in his stomach area is creating a problem that the gas has to go somewhere and the fish has a difficulty to regulate it after two days feeding the flake food you can see the fish is getting a very irregular swimming particularly upside down swimming floating he cannot control his good behavior in the water he's not controlling his sensitive organs in this way that he is suffering from upside down laying upside down is he cannot control the gas bladder so his balance is gone you can touch him, he will move he can control it slowly but still if he continue feeding it it's giving a problem Normal goldfish have a good deformed swim bladder the deformed fish like a rancho has a deformed swim bladder no control or very poor control A red comet you can see in this radiographic picture you can see the nice formed two part swim bladder if you look at the telescope fantail you see a deformed one part swim bladder and take have a poor way to control it It's a physical disorder so try to feed something to help your fish give a sinking food A sinking dry granulated food can help you to avoid this problem so the fish can eat at the bottom of the tank or the little holding place where you keep it so make your choice for a good food it's your choice to keep your fish healthy and decided when you can take it Food should contain nutrigaments we recommend feeding for our Fancy Goldfish the Dr. Basler Bifish food herbal the herbal is a combination of four herbs giving an extra health.