Are my clowns sick? Please Help !!!

[Sycoticrealm]

My 20 years and 10 year old fish says otherwise.

But believe what you want i actually study my fish and keep notes on behaviors and treatments.
Only lost 2 fish to illiness and 6 to accidental death from jumping.
That your opinion and you're intitlied to it so you can all talk **** on me if you want but it doesn't change my proven success rates.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Nothing wrong it is having a bowel movement and white poop doesn't always mean parasites could mean over feeding of any white colored food IE mysis shrimp.
Mine did this even when fed too much brine shrimp.
If they had parasite they would be super skinny if fed lightly and not very fat if fed heavy.

So many members on here are so eager to overreact and call out a healthy fish sick.
Very unhelpful in my opinion slow things down and analyze their behavior and watch for any progression before you call the first turd parasitic.

I agree we sometimes jump too soon at a fish behavior and worry about disease. I do the same with my kids. However, that poop does look suspicious. (is there a spy glass iimogee or sherlock holmes one?)

 

[johnbr]

My 20 years and 10 year old fish says otherwise.

But believe what you want i actually study my fish and keep notes on behaviors and treatments.
Only lost 2 fish to illiness and 6 to accidental death from jumping.
That your opinion and you're intitlied to it so you can all talk **** on me if you want but it doesn't change my proven success rates.

I agree we sometimes jump too soon at a fish behavior and worry about disease. I do the same with my kids. However, that poop does look suspicious. (is there a spy glass iimogee or sherlock holmes one?)

I might be crazy but my clowns now are not showing pretty much NOTHING on their skin. The stains were almost gone. what the heck? Just for the record today I went to WWC my LFS and I realize how overfeeding I was and didn't know. I don't know if that could've being the issue but they seem fine now. Is that weird?

Thanks guys and any advice is good advice let's not fight

 

[DeniseAndy]

Like I mentioned, when the skin is black on clowns it is usually a sting or irritation from something not really a disease. Glad to hear things are looking good. Let us know if something changes. Have fun, clowns are very fun creatures (complete jerks, but very entertaining).

 

[Sycoticrealm]

Sometimes they don't pair if they already chose sex. Many different situations could happen but have you noticed any picking or fighting?
I had some that fought only at night and never noticed it because i usually dont watch my tank at night.
Anyways it ended up giving one of my clowns a goatee lol
I had to seperate them.

 

[Sandroni]

hi,

right now is at 1.021. I don't why but everytime I do a water change my salinity drops from 1.025-26 to 21. I buy my water already pre-mixed from world wide corals.

So confuse now

Are you from Florida? Tu hablas espanol?

 

[johnbr]

DT = Display Tank

QT = Quarantine Tank

HT = Holding Tank

Hi Humble,

Thanks for all the help provided so far. Unfortunately my clowns are bad again. Today they refused to eat and I noticed those stains on their stripes. Took better pics. I'm pretty sure it isn't ich since my two spot golby is perfectly fine. So I come back to the other option, brooklynella, could you please give any, any thing on how fight against this thing? Also, could you tell me if I'm right about this diagnostic by the pics? Also, I don't dispose of a QT. Should I buy one to treat this?

thanks a lot