Flame Angel Behavior???

[jessicarabit]

I got the angel from here & all seems well with her activities & eating (mixture of all kinds of flakes w/spirulina, shrimp pellets, freeze dried brine shrimp), but her eye(s) gets cloudy & if you look really, really close where here gills are on the side, you see a very light 'film' or something that looks like the cloudy whitish stuff on her eye(s). Also, she love going into 'caves' in the LR or in between where the LR meet & she like lays there??? Sometimes she seems to be looking for food, other times is like she 'playing dead'. As soon as I go over to the tank to look at her, she wiggles out. Lastly, at times....very seldom she shakes her body...kinda wiggles it real fast. Not like she's scratching, but 'twitchy' like. Is this normal???
Now I'm know almost for certain my clown doesn't have anything, but she likes to take her body & rub up very aggressively against this conch shell she has made her home. I have tested her by removing it & she doesn't behave like this. I think it's a sigh of territory or aggression towards the other fish. Oh, this behavior has been seen in her for 3 or 4 months. Could it be a connection to the Angels behavior...they tend to hang around each other???

 

[beth]

Sounds like you might have a bacterial problem with the angel which could well be a secondary infection.
There's nothing effective you can do to treat the fish in your reef tank. If you have a QT, then you could treat the fish using antibiotics.
It is so important to treat fish before they go in to your tank. Please look at the FAQ section, if you haven't already.

 

[jessicarabit]

What is a secondary infection??? I have a QT & I have Penicillin....will this treatment be effective??? Do I have to worry about my firefish & clown fish being infected by the Angel??? I still don't understand why she wants to lie down in the rocks...I've seen her do it already today.