help.. please

[bios]

Some days ago a friend ask me suggestions as two clowns dye mistery in his tank other fishes all be well
Analizyng the clowns this what i find 100 of those every fish literally eaten them from inside
150X
Become crazy to find something about it.. but Nothing

 

[melypr1985]

Whoa! Where did these come from? Skin scrape? Intestines? Gills?

 

[bios]

Hy mely pass few time when he gave the fishes to me and they where everywhere

 

[Flippers4pups]

I suspect a form of "red bug" similar to that that eats on acropora coral. A form of copepod or micro amphipod. If the clowns died from something else, these are opportunistic feeders that may have just went for the clowns carcass after death.

 

[melypr1985]

i agree. If time passed between the clown dying and the sample taken, then it could be an opportunistic creature just eating a dead clown. Curious what @Humblefish thinks about it though.

 

[bios]

I also tought to them
But Two clowns a pair all died togheter few time each other fishes took out from tank in water in fridge.. something is not clear
Other point they was inside the fishes
Also copepods have only one eye in the center generally

 

[Flippers4pups]

Micro amphipod. There are 8000+ sub species in saltwater. No telling which one it is. Being clowns are from the damsel family and typically sleep off the sand bed, suspect dead clowns most likely died of something else. Getting to what that was should be a priority in the tank they were in.

 

[Humblefish]

Micro amphipod. There are 8000+ sub species in saltwater. No telling which one it is. Being clowns are from the damsel family and typically sleep off the sand bed, suspect dead clowns most likely died of something else. Getting to what that was should be a priority in the tank they were in.

^^ I agree with this. It's not an intestinal worm; it has the shape of a tiny crustacean.

 

[bios]

thanks..to all you