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Posted	labored breathing
30-04-2006 04:53 by verseborn	what EXACTLY does labored breathing look like? If a fish is taking a breah ever second is that labored?
30-04-2006 04:54 by verseborn	*breath every
30-04-2006 13:40 by Andrea Downs	I'm not a fish expert, I work with small animals, however I would say that generally speaking laboured breathing is when there appears to be a certain effort involved. A deep breath followed by a pause. Don't know if this applies to fish though.
30-04-2006 13:53 by kell	It looks like its panting, very rapid gill movement, as if its been for a run trying to get tits breath back. (I think)hth
30-04-2006 14:42 by telboy	or gulping at top
02-05-2006 08:28 by Alan	Most of the time fish gills will pause between movement when breathing is laboured the gills will move continuously and often extend far more than is usual. There are a number of possible causes: Poor water quality Poor surface agitation resulting in low oxygen this is a particular problem in planted tanks at night when the light are out and the plants are dumping CO2. Parasitic infection such as skin/gill flukes or both or ich.

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