heniochus can't stay upright

[pixelpixi]

Just went I got my new jawfish in good shape (he ate flake food this morning! yay!) one of my two new heniochus has suddenly become unable to stay upright. He turns himself right side up and the immediately rolls back over again. It's not the sort of thing where he's weak and just can't deal with the current moving him around, as I have seen with severely sick/injured fish in the past. Instead, he seems quite active but his buoyancy is just screwed up.

I suspect that he either swallowed an air bubble and burp it back out or there's some infection or other problem with his swim bladder. Have you guys seen this before? Other than keeping him in a calm QT tank, is there anything I can do?

 

[pixelpixi]

RIP.

 

[phishphood]

Sorry to hear it. I still hope somebody can chime in on this for future reference. Unless you can do a necropsy on it.

 

[GreshamH]

Internal infection? Probably a burst swim bladder :?

 

[tuberider]

They don't normally needle Henis do they Gresh?

If they do perhaps it was from a traumatic needling.

 

[GreshamH]

No not really. They're found fairly shallow but it could have gotten needled by another fish in the bucket.