Clownfish - anything wrong with it?

[southfla79]

Unsure if something is wrong with my clowns. Have had a pair for about 7/8 months now and just noticed what looks like small white spots on them. Kinda hard to see in the pics, couldn’t get better.

1.026 - Salinity
480 - Calcium
Magnesium
Nitrites/amonia - 0
Nitrates - 5 or 10. Hard to tell
Phosphates - 0
PH - 8

Forgot to add the pair have been eating fine.

 

[Jekyl]

Can you please repost in white lighting along with a video?

 

[southfla79]

Is this better? I tried circling the area. It almost looks like salt is on them.

 

[Jekyl]

Need someone with a better trained eye than me. I can say that a hospital tank and most likely copper is going to be needed.

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[southfla79]

Thanks Jekyl. Gonna be fun trying to get them out of the main tank

 

[Lavey29]

Looks like brook setting in. Formulin is the treatment for all the fish and fallow the tank 45 to 76 days.

 

[southfla79]

What's Brook and what do you mean by fallow? Take everything out of the tank?

 

[Lavey29]

What's Brook and what do you mean by fallow? Take everything out of the tank?

Google clownfish disease also know as Brooklynella. Fallow means no fish in the tank.

 

[southfla79]

Unfortunately a fallow tank isn't an option> i don't have another one to house the rest of the fish/zoas/inverts and anemone. Is there any safe medication that can be put in the tank for treatment?

 

[eliaslikesfish]

people will probably disagree but I’ve taken my inverts out of my display and dosed my display tank with cupramine when one of my fish had ich, I got a hanna copper tester and made sure it was dosed to the correct level and left it like that for 3 weeks. mind you I had an assortment of soft corals and a hammer coral at the time. I then used cuprisorb and let that run in high flow for another 3 weeks tested using the hanna tester and did water changed weekly until it measured .05ppm. added back my shrimp and snails and have since added anemones and more LPS with absolutely no issues or deaths, not even the snails. (this was all 8 months ago now) no issues yet

 

[Lavey29]

Unfortunately a fallow tank isn't an option> i don't have another one to house the rest of the fish/zoas/inverts and anemone. Is there any safe medication that can be put in the tank for treatment?

Just fish need to be removed. There are some in tank treatments but very poor effectiveness generally.

 

[vetteguy53081]

If this clown is not breathing heavily, place in a clean bucket with fresh water same temperature as display and give it a 5 minute freshwater dip. This is an accelerated case of brook and has developed into secondary bacterial lesions often confused with ich. The heavy mucus which has infected the eyes have also set in. The FW dip will offer temporary relief and follow up with treatment will be needed immediately.
Treat with Ruby Rally pro which is safe to use and along with aeration added via air stone. Monitor water quality closely.
What other fish are in with it and how are they. . . looking- eating - breathing?

 

[southfla79]

Tank has Yellow Mimic Tang, Coral Beauty, 4 Pajama Cardinals, 1 Starry Blenny, Pink/Blue Goby and 2 blue neon gobys. None of the others are acting/looking strange. Everybody's eating fine.

The two clowns don't appear to be breathing heavily. Aside from those spots, they act normal. For that Rally Pro....that would go in the bucket with the fish? I assume back to salt water after the 5 minute freshwater dip?

Is brook usually fatal to clowns and can it spread to others? I ask because we tried to take the clowns out of the tank a couple months ago but weren't able to catch them.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Tank has Yellow Mimic Tang, Coral Beauty, 4 Pajama Cardinals, 1 Starry Blenny, Pink/Blue Goby and 2 blue neon gobys. None of the others are acting/looking strange. Everybody's eating fine.

The two clowns don't appear to be breathing heavily. Aside from those spots, they act normal. For that Rally Pro....that would go in the bucket with the fish? I assume back to salt water after the 5 minute freshwater dip?

Is brook usually fatal to clowns and can it spread to others? I ask because we tried to take the clowns out of the tank a couple months ago but weren't able to catch them.

I could see just a hint of rapid breathing in the clowns. At first, I thought this was ich, but the cloudy eyes and rapid breathing point more towards brooklynella. With the clowns being mostly affected (some of the other fish may be affected later on) that also points to brook.

 

[Jekyl]

Tank has Yellow Mimic Tang, Coral Beauty, 4 Pajama Cardinals, 1 Starry Blenny, Pink/Blue Goby and 2 blue neon gobys. None of the others are acting/looking strange. Everybody's eating fine.

The two clowns don't appear to be breathing heavily. Aside from those spots, they act normal. For that Rally Pro....that would go in the bucket with the fish? I assume back to salt water after the 5 minute freshwater dip?

Is brook usually fatal to clowns and can it spread to others? I ask because we tried to take the clowns out of the tank a couple months ago but weren't able to catch them.

Very fatal and can be.

 

[southfla79]

Well trying to get the clowns out didn't work. too much rockwork and they're too quick. Is it safe to use that Ruby Red stuff in the display tank with the other fish, anemone and inverts (snails and hermit crabs and starfish).

 

[Jekyl]

Well trying to get the clowns out didn't work. too much rockwork and they're too quick. Is it safe to use that Ruby Red stuff in the display tank with the other fish, anemone and inverts (snails and hermit crabs and starfish).

Lowering the water level, catching at night with a flashlight, or using a bottle trap might work for you.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Tank has Yellow Mimic Tang, Coral Beauty, 4 Pajama Cardinals, 1 Starry Blenny, Pink/Blue Goby and 2 blue neon gobys. None of the others are acting/looking strange. Everybody's eating fine.

The two clowns don't appear to be breathing heavily. Aside from those spots, they act normal. For that Rally Pro....that would go in the bucket with the fish? I assume back to salt water after the 5 minute freshwater dip?

Is brook usually fatal to clowns and can it spread to others? I ask because we tried to take the clowns out of the tank a couple months ago but weren't able to catch them.

Start with a 60 minute bath with aeration added via airstone then do normal treatment in the tank as Ruby rally is reef safe

 

[vetteguy53081]

Well trying to get the clowns out didn't work. too much rockwork and they're too quick. Is it safe to use that Ruby Red stuff in the display tank with the other fish, anemone and inverts (snails and hermit crabs and starfish).

Yes

 

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