Clown fish sick?

IUSTINIAN75 · Feb 22, 2022

I have a clown showing some signs of something but not quite sure what It could be… thought to have some professionals eyeball some pictures and help a brother out. Was thinking FW dip 5 min but I’ll wait for expert advice first.
My first guess was some sort of rot I noticed it’s right fin torn up as it still is about two weeks ago and since then her top fin more closed than companion bottom two fins are closed most of the time.
I hope someone has some knowledge on what I should do next.

bcournoyer5 · Feb 22, 2022

is it eating? ive any had fish rot when Ive had extremely high nitrates and ammonia a few years ago when i got into the hobby. since your corals look good im guessing its not that in my opinion. Fish rot happens when water conditions are bad. maybe an internal issue?

SlugSnorter · Feb 22, 2022

IUSTINIAN75 said:
I have a clown showing some signs of something but not quite sure what It could be… thought to have some professionals eyeball some pictures and help a brother out. Was thinking FW dip 5 min but I’ll wait for expert advice first.
My first guess was some sort of rot I noticed it’s right fin torn up as it still is about two weeks ago and since then her top fin more closed than companion bottom two fins are closed most of the time.
I hope someone has some knowledge on what I should do next.

Params?

Other symptoms? is it eating?

Are you sure its not the male and getting beat up by the female? or two males fighting to become female?

IUSTINIAN75 · Feb 22, 2022

I’m not sure on the fighting… I’d say that’s a rough beating if it is lol! parameters are good as far as nitrates and ammonia I do 20% water change weekly to keep up with nitrates but other than that amonia is 0 and nitrates stay around 10-20 until Sunday when their around 30ish

SlugSnorter · Feb 22, 2022

IUSTINIAN75 said:
I’m not sure on the fighting… I’d say that’s a rough beating if it is lol! parameters are good as far as nitrates and ammonia I do 20% water change weekly to keep up with nitrates but other than that amonia is 0 and nitrates stay around 10-20 until Sunday when their around 30ish

Corals seem to be okay. Clowns will beat the **** out of each-other at times so keep an eye out for that and any other symptoms, not eating, flashing, itching, heavy breathing, etc

IUSTINIAN75 · Feb 22, 2022

Ohh and it’s swimming fine and eatting just as normal only thing I do notice faster breathing from time to time and my skunk cleaner tried to jump onto it almost once a day trying to perform an exorcism almost pinning it to the sand and but fish then just swim away after few seconds but the shrimp isn’t doing any damage that I see

rmorris_14 · Feb 22, 2022

Are his eyes cloudy or does it just look that way in the photo?

SlugSnorter · Feb 22, 2022

IUSTINIAN75 said:
Ohh and it’s swimming fine and eatting just as normal only thing I do notice faster breathing from time to time and my skunk cleaner tried to jump onto it almost once a day trying to perform an exorcism almost pinning it to the sand and but fish then just swim away after few seconds but the shrimp isn’t doing any damage that I see

thats a skunk being an butt and wanting to clean, but shouldn't be an issue, any weird mucus? how fast is the breathing? keep a very close eye, fish can go a week or two barely showing signs of sickness before suddenly it strikes.