Fush Bloated

[mark_craciun]

Recieved a clown trigger this morning. The water was very cloudy and he is extremely bloated. He just floats at the top. I currently have him in pvc at the bottom of his quarantine tank. A trick I used to use when my frontosa's got bloated or float. Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Recieved a clown trigger this morning. The water was very cloudy and he is extremely bloated. He just floats at the top. I currently have him in pvc at the bottom of his quarantine tank. A trick I used to use when my frontosa's got bloated or float. Any ideas would be appreciated.

This is likely an oxygen issue. I have an 8+" clown trigger and it get bloated occasionally but after feeding. This may be from air in the bag. Get it acclimating and blend in fresh sea water until you match salinity and consider quarantining it with coppersafe

 

[mark_craciun]

I'm well aware of the quarantine process. Never saw a saltwater fish get bloated this much.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I'm well aware of the quarantine process. Never saw a saltwater fish get bloated this much.

Theyre in a shipping bag and potential for air is great.

 

[mark_craciun]

Theyre in a shipping bag and potential for air is great.

Hes actually doing better. He's staying upright so that's good... Do you have any other fish with your clown trigger? I had one for 2 years and he was a model citizen. Lost him to a bacterial bloom witch caused oxygen depletion. I was able to save the rest thankfully. I have an all triggerfish tank. Hoping they can all live together peacefully. No undines or bluelines... they are jerks. Tank is 400 gallons.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hes actually doing better. He's staying upright so that's good... Do you have any other fish with your clown trigger? I had one for 2 years and he was a model citizen. Lost him to a bacterial bloom witch caused oxygen depletion. I was able to save the rest thankfully. I have an all triggerfish tank. Hoping they can all live together peacefully. No undines or bluelines... they are jerks. Tank is 400 gallons.

Hès in with harlequin tusk, 8 other miscellaneous fish and 27 tangs

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Recieved a clown trigger this morning. The water was very cloudy and he is extremely bloated. He just floats at the top. I currently have him in pvc at the bottom of his quarantine tank. A trick I used to use when my frontosa's got bloated or float. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Sounds like gas in the abdomen. Can be from exposure to low air pressure from an air shipment, gas production from gut bacteria or from improper decompression when collected. Here is a recent post I made about other causes:

Causes of Abdominal Swelling in Fishes

Causes of Abdominal Swelling in Fishes This symptom presents as unusual swelling in the belly of a fish. As with many other disease symptoms, this itself is not an indication of any specific problem, but rather of a group of issues with different causes and outcomes. If some refinement of the...

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[mark_craciun]

Sounds like gas in the abdomen. Can be from exposure to low air pressure from an air shipment, gas production from gut bacteria or from improper decompression when collected. Here is a recent post I made about other causes:

Causes of Abdominal Swelling in Fishes

Causes of Abdominal Swelling in Fishes This symptom presents as unusual swelling in the belly of a fish. As with many other disease symptoms, this itself is not an indication of any specific problem, but rather of a group of issues with different causes and outcomes. If some refinement of the...

www.reef2reef.com

How do you suggest I treat him? He's a little better, but still swollen. If it's gas from his plane ride will it go away on its own?

 

[Jay Hemdal]

How do you suggest I treat him? He's a little better, but still swollen. If it's gas from his plane ride will it go away on its own?

Sometimes you need to try needle decompression, but that takes some practice to do it correctly.

If the fish is feeding, I would just wait to see….

 

[mark_craciun]

He did eat some focus/GC pellets. Still bloated, see what he looks like in the morn.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

He did eat some focus/GC pellets. Still bloated, see what he looks like in the morn.

A video could give me more information, at least to the relative severity of the issue......

 

[mark_craciun]

This was as soon as I put him in the quarantine tank yesterday. I don't see any pine conning of his scales. I put him in a 4-inch pvc pipe yesterday and put him on the bottom of the tank. He looks way better today, He's not struggling so much to swim. I think he's on the right track, probably gonna leave him in the pvc for another day and keep feeding him the medicated pellets.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

This was as soon as I put him in the quarantine tank yesterday. I don't see any pine conning of his scales. I put him in a 4-inch pvc pipe yesterday and put him on the bottom of the tank. He looks way better today, He's not struggling so much to swim. I think he's on the right track, probably gonna leave him in the pvc for another day and keep feeding him the medicated pellets.

Are its eyes bulging? I couldn't tell from the video. Bulging eyes AND belly leans more towards edema - fluid in the whole body. If the eyes are normal, then it may be just gas or fluid in the GI tract.

A word of caution about mixing GC in the food - this medication is not made for oral use. The two medications in it have two different oral doses, so if you get one correct, the other will be wrong. The oral dose for the metronidazole component in it is 1 to 2% by weight in the food (you need a gram scale). The praziquantel dose is tricky - it is 50 mg per kg of fish weight (so you need to know how much the fish weighs). Also, the diseases cured by oral praziquantel don't cause bloating.

 

[mark_craciun]

I let him out of the the pvc and he is doing great... still a tiny bit bloated, but it definitely went down. He is swimming normal and ate some shrimp. He does not have eye bulge. Looks great other than a tiny bit of a bloated belly.