Clownfish Emergency Need Advice ASAP

[reefer420ppm]

Last night I noticed my clownfish's fins were frayed and that he has a discolored hazy patch on each side of his body. I had already been monitoring the clown because he had exhibited strange behavior within a few days of introducing him to the tank. Originally I had noticed him acting weird when I would put the pumps in standby to feed. He would at times just stop swimming and then sink backwards slowly until he reached the sandbed. He would lay there for a few seconds on his side and then go back to swimming around like normal. He never seemed to do this when the pumps were on though so I assumed it was just some sort of odd clownfish behavior. He would also pick up food and spit it back out a lot but it still seemed that he was actually consuming a good portion of the food so originally this didn't worry me.

I do not have space for a QT tank in my apartment and now I'm beginning to regret even trying to attempt this hobby without one. The tank has been running for a few weeks now and all my parameters are all in check. My guess is brooklynella after doing some research. All the other fish and inverts look fine and have yet to exhibit any signs but I fear that they are in danger as well. I am at work right now and will be stopping by the local pet stores this evening in an attempt to procure some form of treatment. The searches I ran on the topic seemed to point to using a formalin bath as the primary treatment. I doubt I'll be able to find 37% formalin locally today so I was planning to settle for Ich-X or some similar product that contains formaldehyde. I also read that Acriflavine and Metronidazole could be effective in treating for brook. My question is which treatment would you guys recommend for me, considering I have no QT tank and 4 other fish that could potentially become affected? Can I combine any of these treatments or will the medications mix and create undesired complications? Is there any successful method that could eradicate the brook entirely in the display without running it fallow for weeks? Can I even successfully cure this disease without a QT tank?

My tank is a 30 gallon long with a 20 gallon sump. I am running carbon, gfo, skimmer, and refugium. I do not currently have any corals yet.
My stocking is as follows:
1 x cappuccino clown
1 x royal gramma
1 x six line wrasse
1 x blue reef chromis
1 x flame angel
2 x peppermint shrimp
1 x cerith snail
1 x super tongan nassarius snail

 

[savetheocean]

What do you feed?

Post a picture of the clown.

The tanks been up for only a couple weeks and you have added a lot of fish. Can you test the water again and post it. How often do you do water changes? Do you use RO/DI water?

 

[Pelagic One]

Welcome to R2R and the constant world of cycling or dosing something or other!

Many of us would like to offer assistance, so yes, please share whatever water parameters you’ve tested. You’ve more than just attempted this hobby...you’ve taken on the care of some beautiful creatures.

 

[reefer420ppm]

It'll be 7pm before I'll be home and able to run any new tests but from what I ran last night ph was 8.1, salinity 1.026, ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrate 0 alk I believe was around 12, and temp 78. Yes I use ro/di water, I've done 20% water changes every week and clean my filter socks when I do water changes. I don't have an ato but I test salinity with a refractometer and top off with ro/di every night. I had been feeding the clown just hikari mysis, then I started adding some Hikari Marine S and Hikari Seaweed Extreme pellets with the mysis after I added the wrasse and the angel. I'll try to get a pic of him when I get home. I really have a feeling it's brook though based on everything I was reading. Does anyone have recommendations on treating for brook without using a QT system?

 

[reefer420ppm]

Also meant to note that I started with 30lbs of live wet rock and 30lbs of caribsea arg alive sand. Plus I have two marine pure blocks in the sump.

 

[savetheocean]

FW dip to buy time

 

[Big G]

The makers of Ruby Reef Rally and Kick-Ich claim that the combined use of these two products for Ich, Marine Velvet and Brook are "Reef Safe." Some have reported it worked fine; others have had some losses of inverts.

I am a "huge" fan of Ruby Reef Rally used as a bath for a variety of treatments. But I have no experience in using it in my display tank.

 

[reefer420ppm]

Okay thanks I'll keep an eye out for the Ruby Reef Rally when I stop at the store today after work. I think I'd be willing to risk using it in the display if it will solve the problem with all of the fish, especially since I don't have any corals to lose yet.

 

[Big G]

Okay thanks I'll keep an eye out for the Ruby Reef Rally when I stop at the store today after work. I think I'd be willing to risk using it in the display if it will solve the problem with all of the fish, especially since I don't have any corals to lose yet.

Ruby Reef Rally is a great product to keep handy for baths for your fish for a huge variety of conditions. Big fan.
The manufacturer's claim was that you had to use both RRR and Kick-Ich.