Bacterial fungus? Precautions?

[truben1010]

I had a clownfish that had some sort of fungus that was growing on its eyes(only fish in the tank). It would grow on one first then go to the other. She passed away in about 2 weeks. Her passing away will be about 14 weeks ago on the first week of November. Will leaving the tank fowl kill the fungus and not endanger my new fish or? Here are some low quality pictures of her while I was trying to use fungus cure and melafix.

Here is a picture of her dead. It looked like what’re she had was eating her eye.

 

[Maritimer]

That _might_ have been Brooklynella, or possibly a bacterial infection. If it was brook, then a "fallow" period of six weeks should see it eradicated from your display. Bacteria ... they're everywhere, all the time, but most healthy fish can fend them off most of the time.

As an aside, I'm going to move this thread over to the Fish Disease forum, where the eyes sitting in front of the most knowledgeable minds on Reef2Reef will see it and be able to chime in.

~Bruce

 

[Humblefish]

I would go fallow for at least six weeks before introducing any new fish.

 

[truben1010]

That _might_ have been Brooklynella, or possibly a bacterial infection. If it was brook, then a "fallow" period of six weeks should see it eradicated from your display. Bacteria ... they're everywhere, all the time, but most healthy fish can fend them off most of the time.

As an aside, I'm going to move this thread over to the Fish Disease forum, where the eyes sitting in front of the most knowledgeable minds on Reef2Reef will see it and be able to chime in.

~Bruce

Well I had the clownfish for 1 year and 1 month and it randomly got the illness. I don’t think it was brook because it didn’t look like spiderweb ish stuff on her skin. Maybe a bacterial infection. She had it twice. I moved her to a qt and treated with fungus cure and melafix and it seemed to have worked but once I moved her back she slowly began to get it back

 

[truben1010]

I would go fallow for at least six weeks before introducing any new fish.

I’m on my 12-13 ish week going fallow. Would this prevent anything if there were to be fungus in the water?

 

[Humblefish]

I’m on my 12-13 ish week going fallow. Would this prevent anything if there were to be fungus in the water?

Fungus is extremely rare in a saltwater environment. Most of the time it is either a bacterial infection or a virus (e.g. Lymphocystis) you are seeing.