Is this normal for a Sharknose Goby?

[Myka]

If it's already in the QT I would bring the salinity down with a refractometer and treat using hyposalinity. His gills looks awfully inflamed and irritated, so I would be suspect of parasites on the gills. Flukes, Ich....could be a number of ickies. If it's Isopods you would need to do a freshwater dip, but that's hard on them.

Is this fish from ORA?

[jostafew]

Hey everyone, thanks for the replies. I know the gills look very inflamed but I believe that is due more to the camera's flash than anything. Under normal lighting I don't see the redness that's there with the camera flash or pointing a flashlight right at it. That being said I will certainly consider dropping the salinity (slowly of course) but I will have to do some planning as the QT tank is being shared by this fish and a few coral frags that arrived about a week ahead of it. I got impatient and am quarantining two things at once.... guess it's better than no QT!

I picked it up Friday and began offering food (very small pcs of frozen mysis shrimp & cyclopeez) twice a day and have yet to see it eat, so that's better than 3 days and no sign of an appetite.

I was wondering about the malformed jaw myself. I'm not sure of it's origin except that I got it from the last batch to hit J&L Aquatics last week. I've got an email out to them to see what they have to say about it, but I am certainly considered taking it back. I am hoping they will agree that there is something wrong and it should come back in.