ammonia is probably high
you need more bacteria in your filters
only clean filters with water from the aquarium.
take the water to a pet shop and check your ammonia/nitrite readings.
fish at surface usually means low oxygen, hot water or damaged gills.
most common gill damage comes from ammonia, chlorine or gill flukes.





"Ddan" wrote in message
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hey, i have the SAME problem i was wondering if you eventually found a
solution. if you did i would love to hear from you thanks









Christy84065 Wrote:
I would check the water parameters ... nitrite, mitrate, amonia
etc,--
and if needed do a water change (about 25%) and then add a little
aquarium salt (1TBSP per 5 gallons). You mentioned that she spends
alot of time at the surface of the water ... do you use an airstone?
If you don't you might want to get one, if you do then maybe take it
a
little out of the water so that it is not giving off so many
bubbles.
Hope this helps-

Thanks I'll try all that. I thought the water is OK because the other
fish
are OK. But I'll buy a kit and check. I did a 25% water change, a
couple of
days ago, but she's still there, not looking happy but eating well.

Rich
http://www.sh0pz.com-

Well, I don't know about the other fish being ok ... but maybe she is
a little weaker than the others for some reason ... another thing that
I thought of is when one of my guppies are getting close to having
babies (Yes, even days before the babies are born) they spend time at
the top of tank .... I pay alot of attention to the attitude and
manurisims of my fish so I can tell from one day to the next how they
are feeling .. hope this helps




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Ddan