maroon clown got bloated tummy

[shoelevy]

my maroon clown developed bloated tummy and can't swim properly...it keeps floating up.

i've changed nothing except fed baby brine shrimp once that i hatched on my own.

anione knows wat's wrong?

[pisces]

The symptoms you describe here are classic to Freshwater fish and the disease is called Swim Bladder disease.

Some of my guppies were affected by this disease.

Not sure if its prevalent in Marine fish too.

The fish generally use their swim baldder to adjust to depths while swimming. If the swim baldder is infected the fish tend to swim on the surface or lie listless on the bottom. One of the cure that was listed for this problem was to acclimatise the infected fish to lesser water depths gradually. I tried this with my fresh water fish but eventually lost most of my live stock to this.

This is just my experience with Fresh water fish and need not apply to marine fish. You may wanna do a search on the item.

All the luck.

[shoelevy]

wat could haf caused the infection?

oh ya...i've been feeding flake food which floats for the past week...each time the maroon goes for the flakes i see it spitting tiny bubbles out.

is it possible the bloat is caused because it swallowed bubbles?