Clownfish losing color and not eating

[Colin Gilboy]

i have a 13.5 gal Fluval nano tank and recently I have lost some fish. We lost a blue barred dotty back an a mocha clown we are just left w one clown. I’ve done water changes since but the clown seems to be losing color and not eating. This tank has been up for about 3.5 months and everything was fine up till last week when we lost the first fish.
Salinity 1.026
High range Ph 8.2
Ammonia 0.0
Nitrite and nitrite 0.0

 

[Flippers4pups]

Could be a secondary bacterial infection setting in due to a parasite. Have to narrow it down, but with so many deaths that quickly, I'd say it's velvet.

Did the other fish lose their color as well? Kinda gold color over the whole bodies? Any of them swim into powerhead flow more than usual? Heavy breathing?

 

[Frtdrmrose7]

Just curious are there any new additions to the tank or were all three fish introduced together? I am not an expert and others will chime in who are but I would suspect Brook.

 

[Flippers4pups]

@Maritimer, #reesquad what do you think?

 

[Maritimer]

Velvet's as reasonable as any of "the usual suspects". I don't really see anything here resembling Brooklynella . . . and it certainly does seem skin/surface based, rather that internal, such as some of the bacterial issues we've seen recently.

I'd probably go with a velvet protocol, and possibly antibiotics for secondary bacterial infection. The discoloration along the margins of his fins has me thinking there may be some bacterial involvement.

Velvet protocol here: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/velvet-amyloodinium-ocellatum.217570/#post-2499399

~Bruce

 

[Flippers4pups]

Here's some reading:

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/how-to-quarantine.232/

 

[Colin Gilboy]

Thanks you everyone. I will do my best. Much thanks

 

[Colin Gilboy]

Just curious are there any new additions to the tank or were all three fish introduced together? I am not an expert and others will chime in who are but I would suspect Brook.

No new additions the only two I added together were the clowns an a week or so later the dottyback. They were fine every since