I've had my Sargassum Angler for at least a month, two months. She eats heartily (took frozen in minutes) and shares a 50g home with a docile green spot puffer, wasp fish, and pistol shrimp. I haven't fed in about a week but I know this is quite often the case for these critters in the wild.
Tonight I looked in the tank and she appears to be swollen. Either she swallowed air or water but she's having a tough time staying on the bottom of the tank. She's pretty much bottom's up and her dorsal fin/rear appear swollen. A WWM page said to try to gently massage it out if its air.. But this really scares me. (Not like she can bite hard but don't want to squish her) I had the same thing happen to a puffer years ago and lost him after my bf tried to massage the air out of him.
HOWEVER. She's a bottom dwelling fish. I never see her swimming around more than 1/3 of the way up. It's so extremely unlikely for her to have swallowed air. Swim bladder disease maybe?
Tonight I looked in the tank and she appears to be swollen. Either she swallowed air or water but she's having a tough time staying on the bottom of the tank. She's pretty much bottom's up and her dorsal fin/rear appear swollen. A WWM page said to try to gently massage it out if its air.. But this really scares me. (Not like she can bite hard but don't want to squish her) I had the same thing happen to a puffer years ago and lost him after my bf tried to massage the air out of him.
HOWEVER. She's a bottom dwelling fish. I never see her swimming around more than 1/3 of the way up. It's so extremely unlikely for her to have swallowed air. Swim bladder disease maybe?
