Emergency! Blue discolor on my cousin's clownfish

[SeZMehK]

My cousin sent me a picture of his clownfish. It has this blue/purple discoloring on it. Seen in the picture. I measured his salinity at 1.023. No idea what this is. Please help. Thanks!

 

[vetteguy53081]

My cousin sent me a picture of his clownfish. It has this blue/purple discoloring on it. Seen in the picture. I measured his salinity at 1.023. No idea what this is. Please help. Thanks!

Need a clearer picture although can see the bruising which may have emerged from a lesion or but can also be stinging from a mushroom coral or anemone.
Raise salinity to 1.024.
Is fish eating and breathing normal?

 

[SeZMehK]

Need a clearer picture although can see the bruising which may have emerged from a lesion or but can also be stinging from a mushroom coral or anemone.
Raise salinity to 1.024.
Is fish eating and breathing normal?

He has no corals/anemones. From what I see and what I'm told, doesn't eat and it started to just lay there on the sand. He only has one other clownfish.

 

[SeZMehK]

 

[RedReefer]

I don't know what's wrong with the fish, but I doubt he will make it through the night in that shape.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I agree, I’m afraid that fish seems moribund, actively dying. There is an issue where clownfish shows type of bruising, but that doesn’t look purple like this does.

 

[SeZMehK]

My cousin said his fish were fine yesterday. No issues, eating, swimming around. This started this morning and now it's breathing hard in the sand.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

My cousin said his fish were fine yesterday. No issues, eating, swimming around. This started this morning and now it's breathing hard in the sand.

That is really fast for a bacterial infection, but not sure what else it could be.