Bacterial infection?

Stepheng101 · Nov 4, 2018

I got a clownfish from petco a week ago, and it hardley eats. It doesn't touch the freezed dried brine shrimp, and spits out the omega one pellets. I have seen him eat maybe 1 or 2 of the pellets. It basically ignores the food. Today I noticed there is a little red patch on top of one of his white stripes. I have been lacking on sucking up the left over food, which is causing my ammonia to rise .25ppm. I will be doing a water change tonight too. Ph=7.8 nitrite=0 nitrate= 40~ ammonia=.25

hdsoftail1065 · Nov 4, 2018

I can't make out what your talking about in the pic but we can get some members of the reefsquad to help out.

#reefsquad

Stepheng101 · Nov 4, 2018

hdsoftail1065 said:
I can't make out what your talking about in the pic but we can get some members of the reefsquad to help out.

#reefsquad

Here, circled it for you.

Flippers4pups · Nov 4, 2018

How are you testing ammonia? What kit?

Stepheng101 · Nov 4, 2018

Flippers4pups said:
How are you testing ammonia? What kit?

API saltwater test kit.

Flippers4pups · Nov 4, 2018

Stepheng101 said:
API saltwater test kit.

What size QT tank is the clown in?

What other fish are in there with it?

Stepheng101 · Nov 4, 2018

Stepheng101 said:
API saltwater test kit.

I also had moved my royal gramma into the DT, he was fine in the QT. I added the clownfish after I added the gramma to the DT.

Stepheng101 · Nov 4, 2018

Flippers4pups said:
What size QT tank is the clown in?

What other fish are in there with it?

Qt is 10 gal, no other fish is with him

Flippers4pups · Nov 4, 2018

The redness is difficult to see from the picture. Either it could have been a injury or something else. Hard to see.

Uronema or bacterial infection is possible.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-diseases-101.189284/

Has it pooped since getting it?

If so, was the poop white and stringy?

Stepheng101 · Nov 4, 2018

Flippers4pups said:
The redness is difficult to see from the picture. Either it could have been a injury or something else. Hard to see.

Uronema or bacterial infection is possible.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-diseases-101.189284/

Has it pooped since getting it?

If so, was the poop white and stringy?

I have not seen any poop yet, I try to look for it.

Stepheng101 · Nov 5, 2018

Flippers4pups said:
The redness is difficult to see from the picture. Either it could have been a injury or something else. Hard to see.

Uronema or bacterial infection is possible.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-diseases-101.189284/

Has it pooped since getting it?

If so, was the poop white and stringy?

If it is urenuma, and there is nothing else wrong with it after 3 weeks, can I give it a ruby reef rally bath before adding it to the DT? I probably will not get any more clowns or chromis if this one survives. I still have not seen any poop, and it still ignores the food.