Cjud7982
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So today I was looking closely at my fish while I did some tank cleaning and noticed that my female clown looks to have gotten hit by one of my tangs. I've seen minor injuries and scrapes on all my fish at one point or another from little scuffs to just minor rub ins with rocks or corals. But this one concerns me a bit more.
The tank is a 180 gallon, and my tangs have been housed with these clowns since day one of this tank and have never shown any aggression towards each other. I am just guessing that the clown may have spooked one of the tangs, wrestled for food, or possibly protecting eggs, idk but she took a slice.
It is a pretty clean cut, no swelling, no redness, doesn't seem to bother her at all, eats like a champ and otherwise normal clown fish activities.
I always have meds on hand because all my stuff is qt'd and treated, so my first thought was make sure she's eating good. Mixed up some reef frenzy, mysis, and clam bits, rinsed and soaked in selcon. Thankfully she was ate normal and took all the biggest pieces, even pieces too big for her to swallow . Next I reached for my methylene blue and mixed it into an airated bowl of tank water and was getting ready to catch her for a good ol dip cleaning. However, this is not an easy task in a getting mature 180 lol. It can be done certainly by waiting until night time and scooping her in her sleep. But then I wondered if it's worth the stress and potential damage from netting and everything else that comes from capture.
So I guess my question is, does this cut look or sound bad enough for immediate isolation/hospital? Or just keep observing and feeding good food and let it takes its natural course.
I took a picture in black and white because i don't have a gel filter for my phone yet and know how much we all love washed out blue id and fish pics haha!
Any thoughts would be appreciated. And FYI I searched on here for similar, but none of them stated the outcomes of if the fish lived or not, or healed on its own with or without intervention.
The tank is a 180 gallon, and my tangs have been housed with these clowns since day one of this tank and have never shown any aggression towards each other. I am just guessing that the clown may have spooked one of the tangs, wrestled for food, or possibly protecting eggs, idk but she took a slice.
It is a pretty clean cut, no swelling, no redness, doesn't seem to bother her at all, eats like a champ and otherwise normal clown fish activities.
I always have meds on hand because all my stuff is qt'd and treated, so my first thought was make sure she's eating good. Mixed up some reef frenzy, mysis, and clam bits, rinsed and soaked in selcon. Thankfully she was ate normal and took all the biggest pieces, even pieces too big for her to swallow . Next I reached for my methylene blue and mixed it into an airated bowl of tank water and was getting ready to catch her for a good ol dip cleaning. However, this is not an easy task in a getting mature 180 lol. It can be done certainly by waiting until night time and scooping her in her sleep. But then I wondered if it's worth the stress and potential damage from netting and everything else that comes from capture.
So I guess my question is, does this cut look or sound bad enough for immediate isolation/hospital? Or just keep observing and feeding good food and let it takes its natural course.
I took a picture in black and white because i don't have a gel filter for my phone yet and know how much we all love washed out blue id and fish pics haha!
Any thoughts would be appreciated. And FYI I searched on here for similar, but none of them stated the outcomes of if the fish lived or not, or healed on its own with or without intervention.
