Maroon clown sick? Help!

[tboneman]

I just bought a new maroon clownfish this afternoon. It is about 3 inches long and looks very healthy. I made sure it was eating before I left the LFS. Now it is home and in it's quarantine tank and is acting like it has ingested a balloon. It tends to float or drift towards the top. When it does this, it makes an effort to swim downward again but something beyond it's control makes it float up again. Right now it is hovering near the top with part of it's dorsal fins and tail actually out of the water. I would appreciate any help that someone could give me with this problem.

 

[Barracuda1]

It sounds like his gas bladder burst, it allows them to place where they are in the water, so that might be it, but there isn't really anything you can do about it, it will heal, but the fish can't utlize it so it may eventually sink to the bottom and live like a hawkfish or other fish without gas bladders do and the hurt fish can live a full life without it even though they can't swim quite right