Need help quick

[dreamsurf]

:help: All of you were so helpfull with my tomato clown and by the way, is doing great. Now I have another problem. I have a friend that has asked me to help him with his sick clownfish. It is a mated pair of false perc. and one of them became VERY fat a week ago. We have been watching it and its just getting fatter. It wont eat and it swims like its a weebelwobble. What could be wrong with it and what could we do to cure it?

 

[sepulatian]

Originally Posted by Dreamsurf
:help: All of you were so helpfull with my tomato clown and by the way, is doing great. Now I have another problem. I have a friend that has asked me to help him with his sick clownfish. It is a mated pair of false perc. and one of them became VERY fat a week ago. We have been watching it and its just getting fatter. It wont eat and it swims like its a weebelwobble. What could be wrong with it and what could we do to cure it?

Could you perhaps get a picture of the clown? Are his scales raised at all?

 

[dreamsurf]

there are no raised scails, no white spots, no black spots, no white tuffs, nothing at all. Shes just very fat and breathing hard. She has been in a hospital tank for 2 1/2 weeks now and was treated with bacterial infection meds and also with something to kill external bugs and stuff like that. We gave her a wormer also. We did a large water change yesterday and that seemed to perk her up a little bit. Now shes swimming around a little bit where before the water change, she was staying near the bottom of the tank under a plastic cave that was set in the tank for hiding. I hope this helps.

 

[beth]

Sounds like it may be an internal infection. If there is a well cycled QT available, you can move the fish to the QT and treat with Maracyn Two for SW fish.