help with clowns not sure if diseased or not?

texgirl

texgirl

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:sleepy: I bought two percs from saltwater.com I got them friday. They where both swimmimg like crazy until yesturday. THey shipped me a light orange clown and one that was darker I assumed they where male and female. We introduced a frogspawn coral and they started staying on opp, sides of tank. Then I noticed last night that the light one was hovering at top and did not eat. This mourning under the blue lighting I could see a film on the light colored one. It appears to white. I am concerned about mariene velvet. I took the light one out but I noticed that the other one scratched on substrate near frogspawn. no signs of disease, but he is not swimming as much. Thats what the other one did. So should I remove him as well. We did not have any fish in our tank before we got our order Friday. Water test good FLame angel, bicolor blenny and sixline all doing well. we bought them with a cleaner shimp. What advice does anyone have?
 
texasstone5

texasstone5

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I suggest catching the clowns, giving them a 5+ minute dip in fresh water, then keeping them in isolation (with UV sterilizer if you have it). Clowns don't seem to tolerate copper treatment, but don't seem to mind fresh water dips. I use this for new fish, followed by a month of quarentine.
To dip a fish in fresh water, hang a big plastic drink cup containing dechlorinated water in your tank for an hour to equalize the temperature. Then dip the fish in. After 5 minutes, or if it is really stressed and lays down, transfer it to a holding tank with water from your reef. Make sure to dispose of the fresh water and the plastic cup. If it has ick, cysts will fall off the fish and are in the water.
 
schneidts

schneidts

Active Member
Well, it really sounds like your clown has Brooklynella. I'm fairly certain of it. If you look through the stickies at the top of the disease and treatment forum, there's a good pic and description of it. A fresh water dip is terrible advice, IMO. Freshwater dips are a last resort, and will not help you in this case. The correct treatment for Brook is formalin dipping. It needs to be very precise, so make sure you read the sticky in the disease forum. I've got to warn you, though, Brook is very hard to defeat, and is very contagious. You definitely want to isolate those fish to avoid infection in your other fish. Good luck and keep us posted.
 
upsman

upsman

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I also bought 4 percs from this site about 2 weeks ago. within the last 4 days i lost 3 of them due to the same problem. good luck
 
ljn0221

ljn0221

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upsman why did you buy 4 they are supposed to be 2 max unless its a big tank
clowns do not do good with copper imo
 
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