Rescued Tang With Bloat

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Does anyone have any experience with treating/curing bloat in saltwater fish?

I just rescued a purple tang with some bloat and want to heal him up. He was being fed all sorts of different pellets and flakes mostly, with some algae sheets and mixed meaty fare. Didn't get the brands on this food really, the flakes and pellets were Ocean Nutrition that I saw. The fish ate some flakes when I went to pick him up. The water conditions were absolutely horrid. The guy was overfeeding and keeping a 5" purple, 12" dogface puffer, and 10" koran angel in a 90 gallon with lots of rock. He had a UV sterilizer and nice skimmer, but neither was running. Tank flow was inadequate as well.

I am hoping that by skipping my QT tank and using my 75 gallon reef with no fish in it will heal him. The water parameters are perfect and I have good food and vitamins for him. If he introduces anything bad I will have to remove him eventually and let the tank go fallow, but I am not worried about this at this point.

I know Epsom is used for freshwater and can be tried for saltwater, but it could be a worm of some kind as well. I may have to feed medicated flakes and add Epsom, but I am not sure if this is the best idea at this point.

Let me know what you all think....
 
Epsom at 1 tbsp/5g is an excellent idea.
 
Pufferpunk;4810979; said:
Epsom at 1 tbsp/5g is an excellent idea.
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Thanks, I was planning on doing that in the morning when I get my hands on some. I guess I will try that and if it doesn't start to get better I will have to QT and do some antibiotics.
 
I will buy fish that have a touch of ich, or something like that, but there are certain things that I need to see (at least unless its something I HAVE to have).

I dont buy fish that arent personable. (Dont buy fish that are constantly hiding, especially when you put your hand up to the edge of the tank. Most fish will think you are going to feed them, and a healthy fish will respond by surfacing to look for food.)

A fish that eats, lives...so the above is one of my number one tests. It will also show you how "tame" the fish is, which ensures that it is not going to just hide once you get it home.
 
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