Identification help with whitish area's on clownfish.
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Looks like a couple of minor scrapes, but it COULD be the start of Brooklynella. The fish is holding its fins up well, so if it is still eating well, I would just keep an eye on it.
Take a look at the top of this section, second link down. That file gives suggestions as to additional info you can give us to help try and diagnose things.
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Take a look at the top of this section, second link down. That file gives suggestions as to additional info you can give us to help try and diagnose things.
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Her and the Goby have been having a go at it and she has been rock rubbing a little. She is eating very well and zips around the tank when one of my Chromis gets too close to "her" spot. TY for the info
EDIT: Fish only tank as of now, Salinity is normally around 1.024 per my hanna, temp has been stable at 78 degree's, tank is roughly two mo old, I have a whole pile of inverts as part of CUC that are doing well except for nassarius snails dont like my tank for some reason. Ceriths and Astrea's doing just fine and growing. 9 Hermits and 1 blood red fire shrimp that molts on que every 2 weeks. Conch that just added about 2 inches of shell. Small Cyno outbreak but undercontrol and being dealt with. I can have recent parameters soon as I can test
EDIT: Fish only tank as of now, Salinity is normally around 1.024 per my hanna, temp has been stable at 78 degree's, tank is roughly two mo old, I have a whole pile of inverts as part of CUC that are doing well except for nassarius snails dont like my tank for some reason. Ceriths and Astrea's doing just fine and growing. 9 Hermits and 1 blood red fire shrimp that molts on que every 2 weeks. Conch that just added about 2 inches of shell. Small Cyno outbreak but undercontrol and being dealt with. I can have recent parameters soon as I can test
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Yes - you should her to a QT, that is a pretty severe increase for 24 hours. It still doesn’t look 100% like Brooklynella, but that is the worst case scenario. Do you have any medications on hand? Getting new meds tomorrow is going to be an issue!
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No meds...I was considering a FW dip since she is very active, eating well and still chasing chromis gang out of her territory then hoping she holds till saturday morning till I can get a proper QT setup.
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Well, it doesn’t look like any disease that would benefit from a FW dip, but perhaps it will do something? Do you have hydrogen peroxide?
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Search here for peroxide humblefish dip. I’m on my phone and I can’t link to it, but instructions are listed at the top of this section in the treatment options file. It is basically 20ml of 3% household peroxide in a gallon of seawater as a 30 minute dip. Humblefish has all sorts of other advice such as don’t aerate the dip, don’t use plastic, etc but I’ve found that doesn’t matter all that much. I should point out that this is experimental, but I’m doing some research on it currently, and I think it shows promise.
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