Will lettuce work to help cure fish constipation?
Okay, see, the reason that your fish are constipated is because they are eating too much. The food goes in, but it’s not coming out. So, don’t worry that you need to feed them something. You need to give them time for that food to want to come out. Actually, a fish should be fasted for 3 days before the peas are fed anyway. So, use this time to fast your fish. Yes, the constipation could kill your fish, but mostly only if you keep overfeeding them. It’s really impossible to say how long this could take one way or the other. Just take it one step at a time. Fast for 3 days, then feed the peas, mashed a little if necessary (split peas already have the skins removed), for 3 days. Then see how they’re doing from there. If they’re still bloated, it could be swim bladder disorder, as they mentioned in your first question, so then the treatment would have to go from there.
