Does my clown have swim bladder problems?

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Hello everyone, I’ve had a pair of clownfish in quarantine for a week now and saw that the smaller one has a big belly in comparison to the rest of its body and tends to swim downward a lot but never reaches the bottom before it goes back up to the surface. Is this a swim bladder issue that I should be worried about? It is a juvenile and I feed twice a day
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He has swim blader issue. He has to swim down to stay level. If he swims down at a less steep slope, he actually floats up to the surface.
Sometimes it is hard to tell if a captive clown is full, fat or problem. However, your video show swim blader issue IMO.
 

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