Near death?

[K7BMG]

Video tells all. what can I do?

 

[HotRocks]

How long have you had this fish?

Any new additions to the tank recently? Any coral, inverts, fish?

 

[K7BMG]

Both Potters went into the tank just about a week ago.
Purchased from a very reputable person recommended here on Reef to Reef.
They were quarantined by him and all has been good so far.

 

[K7BMG]

Aside from the snails they were the only inhabitants until Sunday when I added two Peppermint shrimp.
But he was starting to bloat or get fat before the shrimp.

 

[K7BMG]

The potters went in on April 24th

 

[ngoodermuth]

Is it still eating? It could be an internal infection...

Any aggression? You said there were two potters? What size tank? Dwarf angels don’t always tolerate conspecifics

 

[K7BMG]

To my knowledge they were both quarantined together in a 20G for several weeks, before I received them.
My tank is a 150G, yes the bigger guy chases but I have not seen him nipping.
He hides more than the big guy but I have rarely seem that one eat.
He does come out at feeding time, but I think I have only seen him eat one time.

 

[nereefpat]

Swim bladder issue? I've never seen that in a dwarf angel.

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Video tells all. what can I do?

Believe it or not I’m going to say he’s getting stressed from his own reflection. If you watch he comes up looks at himself then drops down again a couple times then swims off and comes back to do it again. I’m hoping this is the cause and Hess not sick but I’ve seen a Tomini Tang do something similar and it stopped after he settled in around two weeks or so.
He does look a little bloated but if you notice the big one is right behind him at the end. Fingers crossed.
I’m not sure about the bloating if this is part of the problem or not hopefully someone will have a suggestion for that.

 

[K7BMG]

 

[K7BMG]

Skip ahead to 20 seconds.

 

[ngoodermuth]

The smaller one definitely has something going on, you can tell by the faded colors that it is stressed. Often, the most aggression happens in the evening hours after lights go off and no one is watching...

 

[K7BMG]

Hummph, Well I guess I can clean and set up my QT and separate them for a while.

 

[K7BMG]

Maybe I should put the big guy in my fuge?
Let the little guy have the tank to itself?

 

[K7BMG]

So my fuge is full of chaeto, GHA, Brown algae and has a H380 running 12 hours on grow.
Is any of that a problem if I put my big guy down there?