Black Percula Clown sick... what to do

Cfellini91 · Nov 21, 2018

My smallest black clown is acting pretty lethargic. Since the recent death of my BTA this little guy has been sleeping on the rock the past couple days. He will swim a little when I walk up to the tank but will settle back down and almost sleep vertically. I put some food in the tank this morning and he had little appetite and swam a little to check out the food. It looked for a moment as if he was rubbing up on some rocks but it didn’t look like prolong contact was made. I moved him from my tank to a 3g QT with live rock, sand from the tank and current tank water. I will start copper treatment in the QT. Any ideas? Help? Suggestions?

Information on my tank
24g/6g refugium,
I do a 20%water change on the tank every Monday, yes I did it yesterday.
Water parameters (maintained consistent the past week exc. calcium levels as anticipated, test every other day)
Temp 75
Salinity 1.024
PH 8.4
KH 9
Phosphate >.25
Nitrate >10
Mag 1400
Calcium 420

The only new members to the tank in the past month have been a peppermint shrimp and a diamond goby. The diamond goby was in the tank 16hrs before jumpingout, that was two weeks ago. The peppermint shrimp was put in the same time and I banished him simply because he ate my BTA. Deaths- BTA dies after being sick for 10days.
Other live stock in tank
1 Black Percula Clown
1 fire shrimp
1 mandarin goby
2 green clown gobys
6 snails
1 hermit

All other fish are normal and healthy. No visible signs on the fish that I can see.
Here is a video

EmdeReef · Nov 21, 2018

How many days has it been? That could be perfectly normal behavior for a clown, he may have found a new nesting spot instead of the nem.

If there are no spots on its body I wouldn’t treat with copper, if you do treat with copper you will have to remove all rocks and sand from the QT.

Is there any skin peeling or anything? I couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary in the video.

@HotRocks @Big G?

Big G · Nov 21, 2018

Have all the other fish, corals, inverts in the DT been treated prophylactically with copper and a dewormer like Prazipro/General Cure?

Cfellini91 · Nov 21, 2018

EmdeReef said:
How many days has it been? That could be perfectly normal behavior for a clown, he may have found a new nesting spot instead of the nem.

If there are no spots on its body I wouldn’t treat with copper, if you do treat with copper you will have to remove all rocks and sand from the QT.

Is there any skin peeling or anything? I couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary in the video.

@HotRocks @Big G?

It’s been three days. These clowns haven’t hosted in the nem. In the QT he chills on the floor and sleeps appearing sick. I am not seeing any peeling skin, patchy skin, nothing wrong with his eyes, just odd behavior.

The rocks and sand were in the tank when a few drops of copper were put in, what will happen?

Cfellini91 · Nov 21, 2018

Big G said:
Have all the other fish, corals, inverts in the DT been treated prophylactically with copper and a dewormer like Prazipro/General Cure?

I have not put any copper in my tank with my corals and I have not used any deworming products.

Big G · Nov 21, 2018

Sorry, I miss spoke. What I wanted to know is if you have treated any of the other fish in the tank with copper and Prazipro/General Cure, and if your corals and inverts have been QT'd for 76 days to starve out Ich/velvet/Brook?

Cfellini91 · Nov 21, 2018

Big G said:
Sorry, I miss spoke. What I wanted to know is if you have treated any of the other fish in the tank with copper and Prazipro/General Cure, and if your corals and inverts have been QT'd for 76 days to starve out Ich/velvet/Brook?

The place I buy them has a great QT procedure and I’ve bought them not thinking to put in QT. Everything else seems fine. Tonight my GF added the copper and noticed the edge of the fins are getting translucent. Then he floated up on the top as if dead. Then went berserk. And now is chilling vertically upside down.
Aside of copper what else should I be doing?