Badly bloated clownfish, need advice

[Rare Angels]

Hey everyone,

I have a occelaris clownfish is bloated to the point that even his eyes are popped out. Just yesterday I noticed he wasn't coming out of his anemone to eat but I couldn't get a good look at him. Well, tonight I seen his and am amazed at how bloated he is.

He has been with me for a couple years and there have been no new additions to the tanks in at least a year. I am wondering what this might be? Any ideas and cures?

I am going to post this in the disease forum also but thought this a good forum also.

thanks for any help


Dave

 

[Barracuda1]

When you say bloated, are his scales standing up off his skin?

 

[ctlegacy]

I'm having a similar problem with one of my black osc. clowns. I'm curious what the answer may be.

 

[JHemdal]

Dave,

Generally, when you see bloating where the eyes are protruding, it usually means the fish has edema or possibly ascites - excess fluid in its tissues. The common cause is kidney failure. The "lifted scales" mentioned above are another symptom of this in fish that have cycloid scales. Clownfish have small ctenoid scales, so you won't see this lifting with them.

I've had fish develop chronic edema/ascites and live for many years. Rapid onset (acute) cases like your clownfish rarely have a favorable outcome. There is no treatment that I know of, sorry.

Jay