Ocellaris Clowns

[Orlando9220]

My clowns look like they’re dying & ive noticed that they’re skin looks a little funny. Could anyone tell me what might be wrong with them?

 

[Phil D.]

Velvet? or Oodinium

 

[Orlando9220]

Velvet? or Oodinium

I don’t understand

 

[Phil D.]

The type of diseases. You can search them up

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Hi,

That looks like it could be Amyloodinium (velvet) or Brooklynella. It helps us to have more information about the fish and your tank:

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However, velvet kills rapidly, so you may not have time to post answers and have us respond - you may need to search on those two diseases here and try to get a treatment started this morning...

Jay

 

[Orlando9220]

Thanks for the help guys but they died this morning

 

[Labora]

Yea ive seen that bleached look before and death is very soon after. Good luck in future