[bguile]

My flame angel has been in a Qtank for about 4 weeks now (along with my surviving residents) under hyposaline conditions since the ich outbreak in my tank. Everything was looking fine on yesterday as I fed it and the others. Today I came home and found that my angel is quite bloated. It seems to be swimming fine but has a bulge on both sides of it's body. There are no other angels in the tank so I threw pregnant out the window. Any ideas what could be happening? All other fish are fine, ammonia level was below .1 and I've just done a 50% water change. I'll post some pics once I download them.

Here are the pics

[bguile]

updated info:

Now instead of the angel looking fat..it now has a bubble that has seemed to move toward the anal fin on both sides of it's body. As you can see in the picture the (pectoral?) fins have begun to rott...I noticed the anal ones are doing the same. Any suggestions? or help? I'm not sure how much longer it will live if I dont do something.

[Poseidon]

Wow... wish I had an answer for you. I have not seen that myself, but I avoid flames in general as they either refuse to eat, or fly outta my tank... Either way I am out 50 bux...

[sweetrav18]

I dont know if its even possible in a saltwater tank ...maybe someone else can comment on this, but I had a similar situation in my freshwater tank. I found out it was Dropsy. I treated it with antibiotics but the fish eventually dies. Good Luck!

[bguile]

Originally Posted by sweetrav18

...I treated it with antibiotics but the fish eventually dies. Good Luck!

that's exactly what it was when I found him this morning..dead. Well, sad to say but better now than have put him back in the display tank trying to fish him out. Although the critters in my tank may have made short work of him. I had an orange spot goby that I never saw again 1 week after I put him in.