Clown sick?

fowler279 · Sep 4, 2020

Have had this Orange Storm for almost 2 weeks. Hes barely eating anything. He does move around the tank but mostly stays in a few spots. Seems to be breathing heavy but since hes mostly white its hard to tell if he has any spots on him. He ate a little bit of PE Mysis a few days after i got him but hasnt really eaten since. Have tried all kinds of foods pellet, flake, SA Pellets, and PE Mysis. At times he worries me a bit and i just chalk it up to me being a little paranoid but he doesnt seem to be doing any better after being in the tank for almost 2 weeks. The other Clown i got with this one is fine and eating like a pig. Moving all over the tank and appears healthy. Any ideas on if this is Brook or Ich or something else? Or just still stressing over the move and not used to the environment still? Tomorrow im ganna run back to the LFS where i got him to get some of the food they were feeding and maybe some garlic but the heavy breathing still has me a bit worried. Thanks

vetteguy53081 · Sep 4, 2020

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If it is a white film/mucus you are seeing on the clown, it is brooklynella which typically affects clowns.
Star with a freshwater dip and use ruby rally to treat it. Ruby rally works very well.

fowler279 · Sep 4, 2020

Fixed the video. Thats kinda the issue. I dont really see anything on him at all. Mostly just heavy breathing and not eating. Dont see any film or mucus at all. Hes not rubbing on rocks or anything either.

Jay Hemdal · Sep 5, 2020

The video is sorta working for me. As you mentioned, the fish's color is going to make a visual ID of any disease very difficult. Brooklynella will show as rapid breathing, with white mucus on the skin. Amyloodinium often shows as just rapid breathing, sometimes a dust on the body. Cryptocaryon will have many white spots (hard to see on this fish).

One thing I noticed - the body of the fish looks shrunken/smaller than it should be for a fish with a head this size. To me, that implies long term dietary issues, or possibly developmental issues (seen in some TR clownfish).

Do you have the option to move the fish to a quarantine tank?

Jay

fowler279 · Sep 6, 2020

I have tried looking as closely as possible at the clown and dont see any kind of bumps, mucus, or anything that leads me to believe its one of those. I have had him for almost 3 weeks now and he has eaten 1 time that i have seen. He ate PE Mysis in the first few days but hasnt eaten since then. I was reviewing pics today of when i first got him and his has gotten much smaller as you mentioned. So he was eating at the LFS but not since i brought him home. I went back to the LFS where i got him to see what they were feeding and they feed all kinds of different things main thing being Brine Shrimp. So i got some of that and some Garlic Power to try to entice him to eat but still no luck. At the advice of another LFS i added some metroplex just in case he does have some kind of parasite. I do not have a QT tank to move him to right now but heavily thinking about picking one up.