Sick Clown...??Brooks??

[btldreef]

Quote:
Originally Posted by levinjac http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks#post_3302571
You dont even need to feed more than twice a week these guys eat algey but its perfectly normal for it not to eat after you treat it
If they're sick, they should be fed small amounts every day. Vitamin soaked mysis is best.

 

[btldreef]

Could be because I'm viewing the video on my phone, but have you given any thought to lymphocytis? Brooklynella usually doesn't just get better like from a dip. Lympho doesn't either, but it does go down and then flare up again if the fish becomes stressed.
 
As to the FW dip argument, you absolutely can safely FW dip a fish for 7 or even more minutes. I dipped a Sailfin tang for 12mins because the ich was so bad when I was given the fish. I dipped even before it went in the QT. It got dipped the next day for another 10 minutes and I repeated this for days because the ich was so bad, but I did not want to resort to copper and hypo didn't seem to be donig enough quickly enough, it was in the gills.
needless to say, the sailfin now lives ich free and happily swims around my 155G as the "queen of the tank"

 

[beth]

Is this fish still having problems? How long have you had the fish? Can you post a picture?

 

[posiden]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Beth http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3302806
Is this fish still having problems? How long have you had the fish? Can you post a picture?
Still trying to catch up here. A lot has been said since I signed off last night. Thank you everyone.
 
 
Beth,
 
I'm glad you stopped by I'll have to be more specific when the lights come on. However, this morning he is down at the bottom of the tank in a high current corner, doing the clown wiggle bobbing up and down. He seems to be feeling better. This is actually the first time I have seen him down low in the tank with the lights off??
 
I have had him for about ?? I'll check and get back to you on this for sure.
 
I will do my best for you on a picture. Maybe I can catch him again and get some good shots. I charged up the camera battery last night thinking it would take me a while to get a good pic.

 

[posiden]

I have had him about 6-7 months now. He has been happy and eating like no other. I saw the white slime (haze) a couple of days ago.
 
 
Edit;
I think I will have to catch him to get good shots of the suspected HLLE.

 

[posiden]

Alright I got sneaky. I nabbed him while the lights were off. I still have him in the net so if more pics are needed I might be able to do so. My camera isn't that great.
 

 

[meowzer]

Are you putting it in a qt??? I can't see anything in those pics....even tho they are good...LOL...

 

[posiden]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3302891
Are you putting it in a qt??? I can't see anything in those pics....even tho they are good...LOL...
I don't know??? As far as the white film on him he looks like that may be gone. I'll know when the lights kick on. I'll see if I can still see the haze on him.
 
On the HLLE these areas are my concern. Not much I can do about HLLE though, right? Just feed vitamins and greens.
These areas look like small pin holes. And the faint line down the body.

 

[meowzer]

yes, good foods, vitamins, excellent water quality....do you have a grounding probe? if not, I'd add one

 

[posiden]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3302932
yes, good foods, vitamins, excellent water quality....do you have a grounding probe? if not, I'd add one
 
No, I don't have a grounding probe. I can grab some titanium wire from work and make one I suppose.

 

[meowzer]

LOL....or buy one....
 

 

[posiden]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3302941
LOL....or buy one....
 
 
The titanium wire is free to me. One of the percs of being an aerospace weldor.
 
I just replaced the impeller shaft on my Cascade 150 with a piece of wire from work also. The old one was just about rotted through.

 

[beth]

It is not brooklynella. Those pics show a lot of shinniness. Is that the fish, or just the picture?
 
It looks a lot like hypermelanization,

 

[posiden]

 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Beth http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3302947
It is not brooklynella. Those pics show a lot of shinniness. Is that the fish, or just the picture?
 
It looks a lot like hypermelanization,
 

 
OK. What is that? I'm gonna have to look it up.
 
No that's how he looks. When the lights came on, I didn't see anything on him. I hope I didn't over look anything cause I let him go. He is eating VERY much. Hitting it like no other. A very hungry fish.
 

 

[posiden]

No, sorry Beth. That's not it. He never had any black spots on him that I saw.

 

[meowzer]

Hypermelanization is caused by stinging of corals....for example frogspawn.....you do nothing for it.....they should adjust

 

[posiden]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3303081
Hypermelanization is caused by stinging of corals....for example frogspawn.....you do nothing for it.....they should adjust
 
Yea I looked it up. Here is the link I hit up for it.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/disease.html

 

[posiden]

Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/379814/sick-clown-brooks/60#post_3303081
Hypermelanization is caused by stinging of corals....for example frogspawn.....you do nothing for it.....they should adjust
Ya know, thinking about it. I thought you of all people.....would be happy for me that my little fish is eating big time for me.

 

[meowzer]

I AM......VERY HAPPY...cause you will be able to get it to eat vitamins too.....altho I am wanting to know what (if anything) is wrong with it

 

[btldreef]

You said it had a white film spot and now it's gone and it's eating and acting normal and the spot is completely gone?
 
My gut says a slight case of lymphocytis.