Help Confirm please, Brook with no new additions

[Lost in the Sauce]

I stated above, sanity checking my diagnosis of Brooklynella on a clown. #fishmedic

There have been no fish additions to this tank system for at least 6 months and everything was quarantined.

(Stress event) Catastrophic failure of the main tank 3 weeks ago caused everyone to move into smaller tanks around the house. Last week I noticed scratching and slightly increased breathing on some of the residents of the small tank, started Prazi treatment.

Yesterday notice the male clown not looking quite right. This morning he looks like this.

I've got Formalin on hand, bringing a hospital tank up to temp now.

Unsure how brook could take foothold in an established system after this long..

 

[fishguy242]

any other fish in tank ?

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

any other fish in tank ?

Ooh yeah. Various Wrasses, OS Tang, coral beauty. Both clowns. Essentially everything but the tangs and triggers.
The Wrasses yawning and scraping is what made me originally believe we were dealing with flukes.

 

[fishguy242]

@Jay Hemdal

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Had a similar experience over the past 6 weeks due to the same issues. Pair of Skunk clowns just were ragged looking @ the fins, loss of color, semi high respiration. I feared flukes also (went through it about 6 months ago). Ultimately seemed to be a major stress reaction due to overstocking, I got them back in the large tank and they are improving by the day.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I stated above, sanity checking my diagnosis of Brooklynella on a clown. #fishmedic

There have been no fish additions to this tank system for at least 6 months and everything was quarantined.

(Stress event) Catastrophic failure of the main tank 3 weeks ago caused everyone to move into smaller tanks around the house. Last week I noticed scratching and slightly increased breathing on some of the residents of the small tank, started Prazi treatment.

Yesterday notice the male clown not looking quite right. This morning he looks like this.

I've got Formalin on hand, bringing a hospital tank up to temp now.

Unsure how brook could take foothold in an established system after this long..

Can’t see clowns well in video but tell tale signs are:
Rapid respiration
irritation
Loss of appetite
Discoloration around face area
Mucus around gill area

flukes:
Cloudy eyes
Yawning behavior
Scratching against objects

a 5 minute freshwater dip will offer temporary relief and treatment will be formalin based med such as quick cure. If no quick cure, ruby rally pro will work but take longer

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Not sure how the video isn't clear.

I also have formalin on hand and am setting up a 75ppm dip.

 

[MnFish1]

I stated above, sanity checking my diagnosis of Brooklynella on a clown. #fishmedic

There have been no fish additions to this tank system for at least 6 months and everything was quarantined.

(Stress event) Catastrophic failure of the main tank 3 weeks ago caused everyone to move into smaller tanks around the house. Last week I noticed scratching and slightly increased breathing on some of the residents of the small tank, started Prazi treatment.

Yesterday notice the male clown not looking quite right. This morning he looks like this.

I've got Formalin on hand, bringing a hospital tank up to temp now.

Unsure how brook could take foothold in an established system after this long..

Something is 'not right' there is definitely a mucus difference on the fish (i.e. an irritant). I think this looks similar to Brook - especially given the 'stress'. I would treat for brooklynella - assuming all of your other parameters are perfect. NOTE - Sometimes parameter changes from a tank failure (power, etc) - cause injury - which causes the same mucus issues seen here. @Jay Hemdal? I personally would consider strongly brook.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

This is tough to ID from a video. I don’t see mucus sheets like classic Brook. A skin scrape under a microscope is the go-to diagnostic in these cases.
I would do the 75 ppm formalin dip for 45 minutes with good aeration and see if flukes drop off, and then, does it give the clowns any relief (that might take a day to see).
Jay

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

After the video this morning, the mucus started literally dripping/sheeting away from the clown

I performed a 1 hour formalin 75 ppm dip then into a hospital tank with 25 ppm.

It looked A Lot better after and still does. Breathing has slowed back to Just Elevated.

The tank it was in had been hit with Prazi 8.24. and again yesterday.