Spyderturbo007
New Member
Can someone please help me, please. Background:
55g tank that used to have 3 fish. Two Snowflake Clowns and 1 Purple Firefish. The Firefish was added August 2012 after 4 weeks of QT. The two clowns were added late November 2012 after 5 weeks of QT. No fish have been added to the DT since November of 2012.
Two weeks ago I attended a frag swap and purchased 4 frags and added them to the DT after a dip in CoralRx.
Friday night the fish ate and went to bed. Yesterday morning before the lights came on everything looked fine. Then around 3pm my wife called and said that the female clown Bonnie was laying on the sand breathing heavily. I ran home and tested the tank and all parameters were in line and there was no ammonia. All the other fish appeared normal.
I had to go back to work and when I arrived home around 9pm, Bonnie had died.
I asked for help in another forum and someone said it was Brooklynella and I needed to pull them out and perform a Formalin treatment. I ran out and purchased another 20g QT, HOB, heater, air pump, etc. I also got some Rid Ich Plus (11.52% Formalin). I didn't have enough salt water mixed to fill the QT or perform the dips, so I started mixing last night. It's still mixing and heating up as I type this post.
Can someone confirm this indeed Brook? The other two fish look fine. What do I do? The other clown will be easy to catch, but I'll have to tear apart the tank to get out the Firefish. I don't mind doing that, but I want to be sure that it is indeed Brook before ripping everything apart.
I didn't know you could get Brook from a frag, and the other fish look fine which is why I'm confused. Plus, would it really take 2 weeks for it to kill them if I brought it in on one of the frags?
Here is a picture of Bonnie before she died. She did have a splotch on her side.
Thank you and sorry for the long post.
55g tank that used to have 3 fish. Two Snowflake Clowns and 1 Purple Firefish. The Firefish was added August 2012 after 4 weeks of QT. The two clowns were added late November 2012 after 5 weeks of QT. No fish have been added to the DT since November of 2012.
Two weeks ago I attended a frag swap and purchased 4 frags and added them to the DT after a dip in CoralRx.
Friday night the fish ate and went to bed. Yesterday morning before the lights came on everything looked fine. Then around 3pm my wife called and said that the female clown Bonnie was laying on the sand breathing heavily. I ran home and tested the tank and all parameters were in line and there was no ammonia. All the other fish appeared normal.
I had to go back to work and when I arrived home around 9pm, Bonnie had died.
I asked for help in another forum and someone said it was Brooklynella and I needed to pull them out and perform a Formalin treatment. I ran out and purchased another 20g QT, HOB, heater, air pump, etc. I also got some Rid Ich Plus (11.52% Formalin). I didn't have enough salt water mixed to fill the QT or perform the dips, so I started mixing last night. It's still mixing and heating up as I type this post.
Can someone confirm this indeed Brook? The other two fish look fine. What do I do? The other clown will be easy to catch, but I'll have to tear apart the tank to get out the Firefish. I don't mind doing that, but I want to be sure that it is indeed Brook before ripping everything apart.
I didn't know you could get Brook from a frag, and the other fish look fine which is why I'm confused. Plus, would it really take 2 weeks for it to kill them if I brought it in on one of the frags?
Here is a picture of Bonnie before she died. She did have a splotch on her side.
Thank you and sorry for the long post.
