Hi everyone,

Firstly, sorry for having to make my first post a negative one. I'm fairly new to discus (about 2 weeks now) but have been keeping tropical fish for about 8 months now.

Basically, one of my new turquoise discus seems to be in a spot of bother. I woke up this morning to find him floating at the top of my tank and thought ohh know whats happened expecting him to be a gonner. As i opened the tank he suddenly swam back down?! It appears that he may be having some problems with his swim bladder as he cant stay down and is constantly floating to the top?

On closer inspection it looks like his sides just below and behind his fins are swollen but colour and everything else looks fine.

There last meal was some live bloodworm and water fleas later yesterday afternoon and where all fine before that.

Tank maters are 8 neon tetras, 8 harlequins, 6 panda corys and 2 dwarf cockatoos



I had my water tested yesterday and the parameters are:

Temp: 27.5 C

PH 7
GH 11
KH 7
Nh3 / NH4 0
NO2 0
NO3 0
PO4 0.1

If theres any other info I have left out that would be helpful please let me know.

Thanks, FF