White False Perc Clown

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schroder_reef

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Okay, so I've read about Ich and marine velvet and the other common fishy diseases, and I couldn't find anything that was the least bit helpful...
I have a pair of mated false perc clowns, about a month ago, both of them started acting odd, not eating, hiding behind LR, etc., I thought, no big deal, clowns are weird, they are just breeding or something...
One clown started eating again about a week later. The other clown (male we think) hasn't eaten yet, not actually taken food from us nor have we seen him eat off LR..
The really weird thing... he turns white, almost see through.... he rarely leaves the top of the tank, he breathes funny, oh and the white isn't specks, it isn't salt grain things, its just him, he's white, not orange and black, just white... and he's been like this for 2 weeks. Every once in a while he'll get a little colour back and then he'll go white again.. its weird...
Dr. Sharks, whats the Diagnosis????
Thanks,
Ambie :confused:
 
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schroder_reef

Guest
test for what, alls normal.. nitrates normal, everything is normal and he's the only fish that is weird. the guy at the LFS doesn't have a clue.. I even made him run tests too... But everything is good
Ambie
 
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schroder_reef

Guest
This is a fish we've had for well over 6 months, one of our first, all of our other fish are just fine.. I don't have a hosp tank yet, so I can't separate him, I know, shame on me, but I will soon, and I know soon could be too late and I'd have no one to blame but myself, but thankyou for the opinion. I appreciate it.
 
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h2o

Member
I just ended my hypersalinity (5 wk period) with my new pair false percula. During these time both ate very well although one bullied the other. Like schroder_reef's percula, one of mine also turned milky white, it's not so white that i can see thru, but it's so pale and the fish is so skinny that i can see its bone (one line across the body). I fed garlic soaked brine shrimp and i must thank Terry B and everyone else for telling me about hypersalinity, the white spots are gone. Only problem is just this one percula's pale color and not growing at all, while the other one almost double in size during hypersalinity. Both ate like crazy. Now back in my main tank both act normal, weird though is that old perculas and one of the new ones are swimming in school, except this "percula", he swims by himself - can he be a mutant? an "X-fish"?
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