Switching tanks, ingured lyretail anthia

[randomfishdude]

So today I moved most of my fish and coral from my 90 gal to my new 200 gal. Whrn i was extracting fish, moving rock around and taking some out, I found one anthea, who was perfectly fine 15 minutes before, in some algea hiding,lethargic and not able to keep straight. I cought him with the net and put him in the transfer bucket, he cant seem to swim straight and rolls alot. I couldn't find the other anthea, going to go back later and see.

5 hours of aclemation into the new tank and when he was dumped in, he immedeatly went swimming, rolling and managed to go straight through the tank divider into the dark side of the tank, where my 75 gals inhabitants will go in a couple of days, its fine for now tho, he immediately settled into the rock where he is now, beating fast, obviously stressed, I have seen more activity from him over the allegation period.

Ive done a bit of reaserch and it seems there is a chance he got a damaged swim bladder? Wanted to get some other opinions, i read its a possibility she might recover.

All other fish are completely fine and swimming about on their side of the tank making homes.

 

[Euphyllia97]

I believe if it came that abrupt with no previous signs, it might indeed be stress related buoyancy issues. In that case low flow, high oxygen, low lighting and stress free environment is required and the problem should fix itself but takes a lot of time.

For swim bladder problems, other things like bacterial issues, medication, constipation or even parasites might be involved and the move might have been the last stressor needed.

I am no fish medic tho so maybe a video of the behaviour might indicate a lot to our professionals here on r2r. (Next time post this in the disease section, the medics will automatically reply)

@Jay Hemdal @vetteguy53081

 

[Jay Hemdal]

So today I moved most of my fish and coral from my 90 gal to my new 200 gal. Whrn i was extracting fish, moving rock around and taking some out, I found one anthea, who was perfectly fine 15 minutes before, in some algea hiding,lethargic and not able to keep straight. I cought him with the net and put him in the transfer bucket, he cant seem to swim straight and rolls alot. I couldn't find the other anthea, going to go back later and see.

5 hours of aclemation into the new tank and when he was dumped in, he immedeatly went swimming, rolling and managed to go straight through the tank divider into the dark side of the tank, where my 75 gals inhabitants will go in a couple of days, its fine for now tho, he immediately settled into the rock where he is now, beating fast, obviously stressed, I have seen more activity from him over the allegation period.

Ive done a bit of reaserch and it seems there is a chance he got a damaged swim bladder? Wanted to get some other opinions, i read its a possibility she might recover.

All other fish are completely fine and swimming about on their side of the tank making homes.

That sounds like a strike injury to me - while fish are being captured and moved tank to tank, it is fairly common to have fish get damaged; either by the net frame or from hitting a rock.
There is no cure for this other than to try and keep the fish calm and not hurting itself further by swimming around hitting more things.
Some fish recover, but others don’t - sorry, but I don’t have a way to forecast that.

 

[vetteguy53081]

So today I moved most of my fish and coral from my 90 gal to my new 200 gal. Whrn i was extracting fish, moving rock around and taking some out, I found one anthea, who was perfectly fine 15 minutes before, in some algea hiding,lethargic and not able to keep straight. I cought him with the net and put him in the transfer bucket, he cant seem to swim straight and rolls alot. I couldn't find the other anthea, going to go back later and see.

5 hours of aclemation into the new tank and when he was dumped in, he immedeatly went swimming, rolling and managed to go straight through the tank divider into the dark side of the tank, where my 75 gals inhabitants will go in a couple of days, its fine for now tho, he immediately settled into the rock where he is now, beating fast, obviously stressed, I have seen more activity from him over the allegation period.

Ive done a bit of reaserch and it seems there is a chance he got a damaged swim bladder? Wanted to get some other opinions, i read its a possibility she might recover.

All other fish are completely fine and swimming about on their side of the tank making homes.

Need better pic of fish out in the open for best and accurate assessment. Having mixed anthias, often when its not disease, they heal and come back well.