I ended up getting medicine and I treated him for 4 days. By the time I got the medicine though my clownfish was completely fine, and treatement didn't really do anything. My cleaner started acting weird around the time I wss setting up the QT tank so I just moved him to QT keep a closer eye on him. He started acting a bit more normal again and I thought he was just shedding cause he hasn't done it in a while but he died today. Mojito (clown) is swimming weirdly (backwards/sideways) but like is acting the same before treatment.
It was definitely not brook. It ended disintegrating the two corals in the tank, killed my entire CUC minus two hermit crabs, (which have been losing pigmentation and are becoming quite pale), killed my cleaner shrimp (which I think mentioned before) and turned it black, killed the goby within two days, killed my other clown (in my second tank/tank beta) within 12 hours, and absolutely destroyed both actual tanks. You could smell the acidic water from across the room, weird bubbles began to grow on the walls, and random growth grew on the rocks. It even killed the hair algae in the tank. Unfortunately I didn't get pictures before disassembling the tanks. On Feb. 22 I drained tank beta, cleaned everything from the protein skimmer, filter, sand and powerheads. I removed the rock scrubbed it hard, rinsed it in harsh chlorine filled water to kill anything else and dried them for almost three weeks. I refilled with new saltwater and began to recycle the tank. I adjusted my lights so they'd only be on for 6 hours a day sometimes not on at all, turned off any wave makers besides the filter, and added an airstone that's turned on for 12 hours a day. There was no sign of infection in either the rock or the tank so I put the rocks back in and alas a week later there was the acidic smell on the rock and weird growths. I just took the rock out and I'm throwing it away. I did leave one piece of rock in that wasn't previously infected or smelt acidic like the other rocks or show signs of growth to see what it does. The bubbles are back in that tank and while the rocks smell acidic the water doesn't (yet). Originally I thought the bubbles were bits of glue that detached from the corals but they are not. They literally grow bigger and bigger and the more they grow the harder and more white their casing/shell becomes. The growth on the rocks is weird..... to say the least. It covers the entire rock in a white slime with a blue glimmer and then from there giant black spots begin to grow on top of the white and take over. I noticed a clump of hair algae that hadn't been eaten had been taken over by the white growth and then promptly died. The white literally grew on top of the algae and killed it. I tried getting pictures but my camera couldn't focus on it. I dumped my entire tank (tank Alpha) and threw everything away including rock and sand, washed it pretty good, and recycled it last weekend. So fsr there is no sign of re-infection in tank Alpha. I'm so ticked about tank Beta though because it wss almost done cycling and my clown is going stir crazy in his QT tank. Also- there is no sign of disease in the QT. No smells or growth of any kind. The only thing off is the hermit crabs becoming discolored. Literally even their shells are turning pale. About 1-2 weeks before this happened my green star polyps were thriving and flourishing and then one day I looked and a weird growth took over them but they were still out, so i gently cleared off the growth and later they quite literally disintegrated/melted/died. I thought I could ressurect them but I couldn't. My duncan was having a hard time before this but it was the last straw and it also died.
Parameters in QT:
Salinity: 1.024
PH: 7.6 (low I know)
Ammonia: 0
No-2: 0
No-3: 0-5
Parameters in Tank Alpha:
Salinity: 1.018
PH: 7.8
Ammonia: 0
No-2: 0
No-3: 0
(1 week old)
Parameters in Tank Beta:
Salinity: 1.028
PH: 7.8
Ammonia: 0
No-2: 0
No-3: 0
(Almost 4 weeks old)
Tank alpha was roughly 7-8 months old while tank beta was roughly 5-6 months when this first broke out. (I haven't measured calcium, magnesium, etc since it stays pretty stable and all my corals are dead and removed anyways. Any stores near me don't sell phosphate tests and that's the only thing I haven't tested for yet. We're ordering one now.) And it doesn't seem to affect my freshwater at all because I've used the same pitchers, equipment etc, for my fresh and saltwater. (ofc I wash between each use but a rinse doesn't seem to do much)
Any idea of what this could be? I cannot find anything like it on any reef forums and none of the local fish stores can identify it. You probably don't have more of a clue than the rest of us but worth a shot to ask. (Pictures of "bubbles" below)
