sebae clown treatment

clarkiiboi

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I dont have a picture of my actual fish, but I tried the best I could with a pic of a healthy clarkii I had saved in my computer, since they both are similar in the face. I circled the effected areas, and labeled as 1, 2, and 3.
The fish started to losing all interest in food Sunday, its now day 4 and will not eat. It has been hiding alot lately and less active. Today is the day that all the signs showed up. In the area that I circled and labeled as 1, the nostriles seem to be swollen, and below the nostriles, I guess you could say its upper lip, has turned blotchy and red in color. In the areas labeled 2 and 3, in the corner of his mouth, both sides, seems to look as though its seperating from the "cheeks". Also his breathing seems very rapid. One other thing I did not circle, since that is more of a frontal shot is on one side right at the beginning of his first stripe seems to be a scratch, maybe from the rocks? Not sure, but the was the very first thing I noticed a few days ago. I dont know if that is relavant to everything else, or just a secondary problem.
At the moment I am trying to get into my HT, but would you say I'm probably dealing with a bacterial infection and Maracyn 2 would be a good choice to work with? Thanks, sorry so long
 

clarkiiboi

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I called the LFS and they will not be getting Maracyn 2 in till Tuesday, the only other product they have is called ParaGone.....I dont know anything about it, has anyone used it before in a reef tank for bacterial infections? Thanks
 

clarkiiboi

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Well I called a not so LFS and they have the maracyn2, I'm going to pick it up in the a.m., I hope I am right after all the reading that I've done here, that it is bacterial......I will check back tomorrow afternoon to see if so. Also, does this treatment need to be done w/o hypo or in conjunction with?
 
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simm

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If you dont QT him then I believe melafix might work as well. Should be reef safe. I have used it. I dont believe you have to hypo with it however hypo would be a good solution.
 

clarkiiboi

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I believe its been in the main tank for about 3 months. Ph 8.3, Amm 0, trItes 0, trAtes 40, 1.025 (swing arm). It looks worse today, actually lookes like the nostiles are still swollen, but also peeling (white in color) back towards its eyes, the only way I can discribe its mouth is for you to make a fishy face....the space between its nostriles and upper lip looks sunken in now (still red in color) or maybe its just its upper lip is sticking way out. I got him caught and in a 10 gall. HT that has been running for 6 months probably, did water tests in there and its exactly like the main tank. I'll get film and scan the pic tomorrow, because whatever it has its hitting it hard and fast. Still not eating either. Thanks all.
 

clarkiiboi

Active Member
Bumping b/c I see Terry B is on......I truely believe that its a bacterial infection and I got the Maracyn 2 tablets. My question is: I thought I read from here that you should "double" what the instuctions for use says.... is that just day 1 or all 5 days? Thanks
 

clarkiiboi

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Thanks Terry, I did double it yesterday (day1) I just wasn't sure about the other days. Also I'll countinue for 7 days, didnt know that, so thanks again. Update: everything I described about the look of this fish earlier is not what it looks like today. Its got cloudy eyes now, and the whole face area is just white and almost looks as though its peeling and/or deteriorating. I'll keep you updated and hopefully will have good news. Also, my scanner isnt working properly or I would of had the pic up.
Thanks again all.
 

beth

Administrator
Staff member
That almost sounds like brook, but that isn't likely since you've had the fish for awhile.
Just before each dosing with Maracyn2 do a water change. The med will leave a residue in the water column, and, to maintain water quality, you don't want an accumulation of med in the water.
 

clarkiiboi

Active Member
Thanks Beth, I didnt know about the water changes either, its a 10 gall, how much you think I need to change? I read a post here on brook about a month ago----I will look under your posts, I remember that you made a new thread from a member questions and I think I can get his/her name from there also....I hope its not that, but I will definately look into it, and definately get a pic up, even if I have to go to the "in-laws" to scan it and save to disk, I will get a pic up by Sunday night!! Thanks again.
 

clarkiiboi

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Whys that? I still have my other fish in there. I would QT first anyways, but I'm leaving that tank empty for a few weeks. Though it did me no good, with the clown, to put in QT. Seeing that this didn't show up till way later, after it was in the main tank. What causes Brook? Is it diet, water quality? How is it prevented?
 
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