Bloated Coral Beatuy in QT

[ryangill]

Hi, I need help with my coral beauty he/she is severely bloated, I am in the process of a hyposalinity treatment and was going to lower the salinity for the last time today to 14ppt but noticed the coral beauty was WAY too fat. So I did nothing. The tank is at 17ppt I started at 35ppt and have lowered ~ 5ppt a day. What should I do to get rid of the bloat? I have some pics of the fish here.

bloated beauty

Please help. This fish is ~5years old and I would hate to lose it.

 

[dhess]

I'm not sure what is wrong with your coral beauty, but I once had a six line wrasse that had similar bloating.

The fish literally exploded one day. Seriously.

My guess would be some kind of swim bladder disease.

 

[Anonymous]

I remember seeing this query come into WWM last week. If the fish were a freshie, I'd call this symptom dropsy. Because of the bulging eyes, I think you would do well to begin a regiment of antibiotics. I would suggest Spectrogram.

By the way, welcome to reefs.org, both of you.