ravechild
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I think my Ocellarius Clown is sick.
His mouth is always open and appears to be swolen. No growths or white spots around it. His "cheeks" appear to be sunken in. His gills appear slightly swolen but he shows no signs of laboured breathing. He hasn't been eating right, just catches whatever floats by but makes no effort to goto the food, and he is starting to get skinny.
He has been like this for over a month now.
In the tank I have: 2 ocellarius clowns (including the one that is sick), 1 3-striped damsel, 1 blue devil damsel, 1 neon dottyback, 1 yellow tang, various snails and hermit crabs, 1 sandsifting starfish, some zoos, some gsp's, some mushrooms, a hammer coral, a branching octocoral, and a tube anemone.
It is a 55gal tank that has been running for around 1.5 years.
I feed them alternatly with marine flake and marine frozen blend (both always soaked in garlic gaurd) and sometimes some seaweed on a lettuce clip. I also feed marine snow to the tank (approx 1 tbsp daily).
I have had this clown for nearly a year now and there haven't been any recent additions besides a few pieces of dry base rock.
I have tried treating with antibacterial tabs (according to the package directions) in my QT on the advice of my lfs (they thought it may be a bacterial infection). He is still in the QT being treated with coppersafe in the case that it may be some form of parasite. but he still shows no sign of improvement.
Water params are as follows:
Temp - 81.5-82°
SG - 1.023
PH - 8.0
Alk - 4.5
Calcium - 420
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 50 (I know high but I am working on getting this down, I almost fell over when i saw it)
Phosphate - Undetectable
Thanks in Advance.
His mouth is always open and appears to be swolen. No growths or white spots around it. His "cheeks" appear to be sunken in. His gills appear slightly swolen but he shows no signs of laboured breathing. He hasn't been eating right, just catches whatever floats by but makes no effort to goto the food, and he is starting to get skinny.
He has been like this for over a month now.
In the tank I have: 2 ocellarius clowns (including the one that is sick), 1 3-striped damsel, 1 blue devil damsel, 1 neon dottyback, 1 yellow tang, various snails and hermit crabs, 1 sandsifting starfish, some zoos, some gsp's, some mushrooms, a hammer coral, a branching octocoral, and a tube anemone.
It is a 55gal tank that has been running for around 1.5 years.
I feed them alternatly with marine flake and marine frozen blend (both always soaked in garlic gaurd) and sometimes some seaweed on a lettuce clip. I also feed marine snow to the tank (approx 1 tbsp daily).
I have had this clown for nearly a year now and there haven't been any recent additions besides a few pieces of dry base rock.
I have tried treating with antibacterial tabs (according to the package directions) in my QT on the advice of my lfs (they thought it may be a bacterial infection). He is still in the QT being treated with coppersafe in the case that it may be some form of parasite. but he still shows no sign of improvement.
Water params are as follows:
Temp - 81.5-82°
SG - 1.023
PH - 8.0
Alk - 4.5
Calcium - 420
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 50 (I know high but I am working on getting this down, I almost fell over when i saw it)
Phosphate - Undetectable
Thanks in Advance.
