ID!!! Possible Hole in the head disease on my Clown Fish (HELP)

llovsbarbie

New Member
A few weeks ago we realized that one of our fish possibly had ICH so we took all of our fish out and treated them for a few weeks for ICH. While being treated, my clownfish started acting funny. Scared that the treatment was hurting them, I placed them back in the main tank. Well two weeks as gone by and they are till acting funny. The female is constantly swimming almost as if in a rage. Up and down and back and forth towards the glass. I noticed what may be hole in the head and lateral line disease. There isnt any huge holes, but there is a now noticeable line going down along both sides of both fish. I have never noticed it before so dont believe it has always been there.
What treatments and medication do you recommend? I plan on going out to the LFS tomorrow and would appreciate any advice.
Sorry no pictures, camera is acting up. Thanks.
 

meowzer

Moderator
, they need good foods, vitamins, excellent water conditions, and no stress
moving them back and forth is not a good idea.....you have ich in your main tank now...you need to leave that tank empty for 6-8 weeks for the ich to die out w.o a fish to live on
keep all the fish in your qt, you need to do hyposalinity on them.....do not medicate...
read the sections at the top of this forum on HLLE, and ich, and hypo
 

llovsbarbie

New Member
None of the fish had any signs of ICH, but I had treated them for two weeks just in case. We had a fish have it and pass away a few weeks prior and once we had the chance to set up a QT we placed all surviving fish and treated them with ICH X.
The water reads
PH: 8.4
Amm: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
I feed them TetraCichlid mini granules and frozen shrimp.
We plan on going out to get some vitimans.
I really dont want to have to stress them out again by placing them in the QT tank. None of the fish shows signs of ICH, and other than the clowns, all the fish are acting normal. The clowns at first show little interest in food, but now are eating everything they can.
 

beth

Administrator
Staff member
Are you able to post a picture of the clown?
That med is pretty useless for ich. You may well still have a problem with that, since ich is highly contagious?
 
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