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| | Swim Bladder Problems |
 | | Much information learned regarding the swim bladder in the last decade has proven this way of thinking obsolete and finally, today, we can fix most swim bladder problems when caught in time with natural remedies, common sense and patience. | | | You want to manipulate the swim bladder slowly, carefully and a little at a time while still working it enough to do some good. | | | In this manner the swim bladder will, with any luck, begin to work on it's own and start on it's way to full recovery. |
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http://article.discusnews.com/cat-02/swimblader.shtml
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| | How to Deflate the Swim Bladder of a Deep-Caught Bass |
| | Insert a hypodermic needle at a 45-degree angle and exert pressure on the fish's stomach. | | | Once the swim bladders of bass you take from deep water over-inflate, you must manually deflate them with a hypodermic needle. | | | The main problem you will come across when deflating a bladder is a clogged needle. |
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http://www.insideline.net/1999/sak-0102-99.html
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| | swim bladder - fish disease, fish clinic, fish treatments > marine fish, tropical fish, coldwater fish, fish keeping ... |
| | The condition is often associated with poor or thoughtless dry-food feeding. | | | With fancy goldfish having their internal organs under some pressure already from the un-natural compacting of the body into its spherical shape, the added distortion created by the swelling food can affect the working of the swim bladder. | | | This will usually be a temporary condition, relieved once the fish has excreted the faecal waste from the digestive process. |
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http://www.thegoldfishbowl.co.uk/swimbladder.html
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| | Getsmarter.org - Math & Science Television |
| | Fish's swim bladders make up only about 5 percent of their entire volume, though, while our lungs fill most of our chest cavities. | | | What it would really like to do is adapt its body to the pressure of the new depth, so that it can maintain its neutral buoyancy and rest there without constantly having to struggle up or down. | | | Surprisingly, what they do instead is change the amount of oxygen gas in the bladder. |
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http://www.getsmarter.org/mstv/L3_b.cfm
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| | Goldfish Swim Bladder, Erratic Swimming, and Buoyancy Problems. |
| | The idea is to match the conditions on the fish farm closely to the conditions here in our facility and to the conditions in our customers aquariums and ponds. | | | With some patience and tender care you can raise our fish to be magnificent specimens, and they have the potential to live much longer than the small stunted Orandas with large bumps on their heads. | | | If you get fish from us and you're not 100% satisfied, we want you to tell us why you're not satisfied, and give us an opportunity to make an adjustment. |
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http://www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_pages/goldfish_and_koi/goldfish_swim_bladder.htm
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| | * Swim Bladder - (Aquarium): Definition |
| | Many of the above can be treated with various medications,... | | | This usually affects the shorter body types, such as ryukins. | | | Another disease, which is most often encountered in fancy, egg-shaped goldfish is Swim Bladder Disease, or SBD. |
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http://www.mimihu.com/aquarium/swim_bladder.html
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| | Bubblenest.com - Health - RE: Swim bladder problem |
| | Here's some theories which you may be interested in. | | | Sometimes this problem corrects itself and sometimes it does not. | | | Some varieties of bettas also grow slower than others. |
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http://www.bubblenest.com/betta/read.php?f=3&i=9&t=7
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| | Disease Information |
| | I don't think that there is medication for this, it may or may not heal by itself. | | | There is no cure for a cancerous tumour, but it may live for a while. | | | -Viral Infection may cause swim bladder problems, but there is no treatment and the betta may or may not recover by him/herself. |
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http://www.bettaworld.4t.com/whats_new.html
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| | Swimbladder Disease, Flip over, air sac disease: Goldfish health and disease information |
| | I mention this less as a practical option but more just to let people know that there are vets out there doing X-rays, surgery, general anesthesia, even cancer chemotherapy on fish. | | | Swim bladder disease is a multifactorial illness which primarily affects ornamental goldfish which have globoid body shapes, like orandas, ryukins, and fantails. | | | A fish which has normal buoyancy but is listing to one side or the other often does not have swim bladder disease, but may have other diseases. |
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http://www.koivet.com/swimbladder.html
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| | Swim Bladder Disease @ petfish.net |
| | May or may not have a "kinked" spine, often in the shape of an "S" when viewed from above. | | | Unfortunately this means that there is no real cure for the disorder if it is caused by injury, but you can manage the illness. | | | Swim Bladder Disorder can be caused by several things, and it's best to try to figure out the cause of the problem because the cause will determine what treatment you will want to use. |
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http://www.petfish.net/swimbladder_betta.htm
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| | Adaptation - attributes, structures, biochemical pathways, or behaviors that have evolved through natural selection and that are useful to the organism for survival or reproductive success. | | | Other fish have a single but bi-lobed sac which can function as a swim bladder but, because it is open to the esophagus the organisms can still gulp air into it and use it as an auxilary respiratory structure. | | | During development, both originate as outpocketings of the gut. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~darwin/BiSc150/Adaptation1/comparative.html
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| | How to Deflate a Fish |
| | You can’t unless you vent his swim bladder gases. | | | DO NOT vent the gases by puncturing the protruding stomach or going through the anus. | | | His eyes are bulging and his stomach is sticking out of his mouth. |
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http://www.catchandreleasefound.org/deflate.htm
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| | Pets Hub - Need Advice--Betta with Swim Bladder |
| | I think a large water change is a good idea, but perhaps not 100%. | | | I think this happened when he was unable to swim free of the filter as his back end was up towards the filter. | | | Unfortunately, the swim bladder is like a ballon in there, filling or releasing air back and forth to the blood to determine how high in the water he will be, changing his density. |
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http://www.petshub.com/forums/printthread.php?t=7428
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| | When Your Fish Can’t Swim - PetPlace.com |
| | There are several things you can do to prevent this problem. | | | Buoyancy problems are caused by a wide variety of disorders. | | | Many buoyancy problems are simply idiopathic, which means that there is no known cause, and are associated with the swim bladder – a small epithelium-lined sac in the anterior abdomen responsible for maintaining buoyancy. |
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http://petplace.netscape.com/Articles/artShow.asp?artID=2551
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| | Swim Bladder Disorders |
| | Whenever you suspect a swim bladder problem, do not poke the fish with a pin or needle! | | | This is a gram-positive bacterial infection of the swim bladder known as: Whirling disease | | | The anterior part of the air bladder, the part towards the abdomen, is inflamed. |
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http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_diseases/swim_bladder.html
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| | 24th Annual Eastern Fish Health Workshop |
| | USGS/BRD, National Fish Health Research Laboratory, 1700 Leetown Road, Kearneysville, WV 25430. | | | PCR cloning and gene-sequencing techniques were used to identify the presence of a retrovirus in the tumor. | | | No tumors were observed upon gross examination of these fish (n=76) during necropsy. |
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http://www.lsc.usgs.gov/FHB/workshops/24/39.htm
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| | swim bladder -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Information on this medical condition affecting the urinary bladder. | | | The body is encased in bony, ringlike plates studded with spines. | | | Information on causes and treatment of male bladder and urethral conditions. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070651?tocId=9070651
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| | Gas bladder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | (This is an instance of correlation between ontogeny and phylogeny.) There are no animals which have both lungs and a gas bladder. | | | Gas bladders are only found in ray-finned fish, but a few of these fish that do not need to change water depth have lost them. | | | It is believed that the first lungs, simple sacs that allowed the organism to gulp air under oxygen-poor conditions, evolved into the lungs of today's terrestrial vertebrates and into the gas bladders of today's fish. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swim_bladder
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| | Through the study of bladderless mutants, the organ’s morphology may be linked to the development of the notochord, eyes, and jaw due to their malformations in these mutants. | | | The breakdown of the jellyfish lifecycle into two stages, the primary polyp and the medusa stage, differentiate the signals that will form the tentacles. | | | In addition to playing a quintessential roll in controlled buoyancy and swimming behavior, the swim bladder has also been shown to be actively involved in the respiratory and auditory processes of water dwelling organisms. |
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http://academic.bowdoin.edu/courses/f04/bio217/files/Organo_abstracts_2004.doc
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| | Swim bladder information from the Fish Helpline |
| | Swim bladder problems are not as common in Koi as in fancy goldfish. | | | The point I'm getting to is swim bladder problems are many fold and swim bladder treatments for a problem that could have upwards of 20 causes seems to me a waste of time. | | | So swim bladder problems in fish keeping terms looks like a single symptom but with many causes. |
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http://www.fish-helpline.co.uk/health/swim_bladders.html
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| | Fish Dissection - Swim bladder |
| | The swim bladder helps to solve the problems associated with variations of pressure, and thus buoyancy. | | | The way the fish does this involves three processes; the acidification of the blood, an increase in the concentration of lactate and hydrogen ions and the movement of blood through a complex structure called the rete mirabile (literally, the wonderful network). | | | Sharks for example do not have a swim bladder, and many species such as the Grey Nurse Shark, use a different strategy which includes having a large oily liver and specialised body shape to maintain buoyancy. |
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http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/students/dissect/swimbladder.htm
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| | The Swim Bladder of Butterflyfishes |
| | These results further suggest that the morphology of the swimbladder is functionally correlated with LC morphology, that the definition of the laterophysic connection be expanded to include the swimbladder, and that the laterophysic connection needs to be studied as a functional complex. | | | If swim bladder morphology is correlated with LC morphology, then it is likely very important for understanding the function of the LC. | | | CT provides a quick (albeit costly) method for assessing swim bladder morphology in anaesthetized, especially in those with morphological specializations that might be altered by further dissection. |
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http://www38.homepage.villanova.edu/jacqueline.webb/swimbladder.htm
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| | Dedicated To The Tribal Aquaculture Program |
| | The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which noninflation of swim bladders occurs among pond-reared walleyes raised at hatcheries around the USA. | | | A considerable economic advantage was realized with the phase-feeding technique. | | | The practical measurement includes mortality that may or may not be influenced by inflation status. |
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http://www.fws.gov/midwest/ashland/mtan/mtan_7.html
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| | Swim Bladder |
| | Both develop in the same way, and some fish with an open swim bladder may use it as a breathing organ. | | | The swim bladder develops as a pouch budding off the embryonic digestive tract, and in chondrosteans (such as sturgeons) and holosteans (such as gars), plus a few teleosts such as eels, it retains an open connection to the esophagus. | | | Many fish, particularly those of coastal waters, have muscles that insert into the swim bladder. |
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http://www.caf.wvu.edu/~rwhitmor/wman224/swim_bladder.htm
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| | Animal Health Care - |
| | Swim bladder problems lead to unwanted increased or decreased buoyancy. | | | The fancy goldfish are more likely to develop swim bladder problems causing them to lie in an upside down position. | | | The oxygen that comes in through the fish& gills is transferred into the sac from the blood vessels to inflate it. |
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http://www.animalhealthcare.ca/contents/content.asp?id=339&cat=Exotic
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| | APC 100 |
| | The modern point of view, however, is that the presence of lungs was a primitive character and that the swim bladder of higher fishes is probably a specialized modification of the lung. | | | Many authorities in the past have considered the swim bladder to be the forerunner of lungs of higher forms. | | | The SWIM BLADDER in various fishes is a gas-filled diverticulum which arises from the pharyngeal or esophageal region of the digestive tract. |
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http://trc.ucdavis.edu/mjguinan/apc100/modules/Digestive/fish/swim0/swim.html
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| | Swim Bladder Disorder Info |
| | Treatments : Tender love and care, sometimes in serious cases the fish may need to be euthanized. | | | Later in life, they may seem perfectly normal. | | | Info :SBD (Swim Bladder Disorder) is an undesirable abnormality that is usually culled out by the breeder. |
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http://snow.prohosting.com/bettabn/swim_bladder_disorder.htm
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| | Their swim bladders also change, and their digestive systems disintegrate, so they no longer eat. | | | Their bodies grow fatter, their pectoral fins enlarge, and their eyes grow larger and change pigmentation. |
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http://www.estuary.org/fish/eels/eels.html
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| | The Swim Bladder |
| | The swim bladder is a hydrostatic organ that has little to do with respiration, and a great deal to do with the fish’s balance and buoyancy in the water, both accumulating air (gas) released from the blood and releasing it for reabsorption back into the bloodstream. | | | Thus, to get back to the problem of bellysliders, any problem affecting the gas bladder itself, the vascular plexus, or the red blood cells which carry oxygen, could affect the ability of fry to fill their gas bladders. | | | Although experience has proven that many annual fry hatch better when wet in fairly shallow water, this "gulp of air" theory has been disproven. |
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http://www.cincikillies.org/swimbladder.htm
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| | Swim Bladder Disorder In Goldfish- Pets - Indiatimes |
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Common symptoms include difficulties in swimming, most often the goldfish bobs up and down. | | |
Though not fatal by itself, swim bladder disorder is strenuous for the goldfish thus becoming a killer. | | |
The sickness causes the goldfish to lose control over their swim, disturbing their equilibrium. |
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http://pets.indiatimes.com/articleshow/-1846288500.cms
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| | SWIM - Definition |
| | To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed. | | | To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail. | | | Sometimes he thought to swim the stormy main. |
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/swim
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| | Goldfish Care - Swim Bladder Disease - Fish |
| | A reader asks what to do for a goldfish with swim bladder problems, and when to start feeding live foods. | | | It sounds like your goldfish is lucky - most fancy goldies with swim bladder problems don't last that long, and yours seemed to adapt to a bad sitation. | | | She acts like she has control issues when she swims and can't even swim in a straight line... |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art26249.asp
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| | Biological factors affecting the swim bladder volume of sardine (Sardina pilchardus) |
| | The relative importance of these variables in the calculations of the swim bladder volume for different physiological conditions of the fish was also assessed. | | | Variations in absolute and relative swim bladder volume in relation to fish length and the aforementioned organs' volume and lipid contents were estimated by means of multiple regression analysis. | | | The results revealed that the volume can be estimated from two distinct models: the first for the reproductive and the second for the non-reproductive period. |
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| | Re: distended swim bladder |
| | I feel that it is sometimes a response to s stress. | | | When you say distended, do you mean inflated, or is there water in the swim bladder? | | | I have had rainbows with water filled swim bladders swim on their side quite happily. |
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http://aquanic.org/discuss/_salmonid/00000692.htm
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| | Swim Bladder |
| | The pressure affects the gases in the fishes' bodies, decreasing the volume occupied by the gases with each increase in depth. | | | A barracuda had a swim bladder size of 0.15 liters at the point it was hooked, and 1.1 liters at the surface, how deep was the fish when it was hooked? | | | If a jewfish had a swim bladder size of 0.17 liters at the point it was hooked, and 1.02 liters at the surface,m how deep was the fish when it was hooked? |
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http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/learning/resources/activities/coastal/swimbladderactivity.phtml
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| | Aquaria Central - Platy swim bladder out? |
| | She acts completely normal except for the fact that she really can't swim, the only time she comes to the top is for feeding, and then it seems to be all she can do to get up there. | | | I've not been able to find any information regarding this, and was wondering if any of you guys knew what was going on. | | | She looked perfectly healthy, no ick etc, and was fine at the last feeding. |
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http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/printthread.php?t=41146
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| | Breeding tropical fish |
| | The swim bladder is a large gas filled organ with muscles attached so that it is able to expand an contract. | | | In some fish there is a ducting system in place to allow the gas volume to be adjusted, in other fish there is no such system but the gas volume can still be altered because the gas can be exchanged through the blood of the fish. | | | If one side becomes less well developed because of the radical changes made through selective breeding then the fish will have to expend a lot of energy trying to maintain its balance. |
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http://groups.msn.com/Breedingtropicalfish/swimbladder.msnw
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| | The swim bladder enables the fish to change the density of its body and remain stationary at a given depth. |
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http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Osteichthyes/fishdiagram.html
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| | Retrovirus Associated with Swim Bladder Sarcoma |
| | An interview of the HACCP trained supervisor and quality control person at the processing plant revealed that swim bladder tumors have never been seen at the processing line in the 3+YC or any other YC. | | | This tumor was associated with the kidney and not with the swim bladder. |
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http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/Publications/sb%20retrovirus.htm
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| | Howstuffworks "How do fish rise and sink in the water?" |
| | A swim bladder is just an expandable sac, like a human lung. | | | When the bladder is expanded, it displaces more water and so experiences a greater force of buoyancy. | | | To stay at a particular level, a fish fills its bladder to the point at which it displaces a volume of water that weighs what the fish weighs. |
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/question629.htm
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| | tetra swim bladder problem - MyFishTank.Net |
| | Many things could effect the way they swim and be the cause of it. | | | it was like his swim bladder was busted, and wouldn't make him neutrally buoyant. | | | he eventually got to the point where he couldn't swim well enough to find food and i think he starved to death |
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http://www.myfishtank.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19307
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