Hey guys, so I went against my better judgment and bought a healthy looking false percula clown form the LFS (those in the SF bay area: do not buy fish from there!) I had previously bought two clowns from the same store, and they died after a week or two because of what appeared to be an internal parasite (sluggish, erratic behavior, random bursts of shaking/swimming, stringy white feces, rapid labored breathing).
To save one, I had tried giving it a freshwater bath after it hadn't eaten for a week, didn't really help, and it died the next day. The other one died shortly thereafter on its own.
So now I've got another nano tank, and thinking that the LFS had changed their ways, I got another clown. It started out super healthy, eating flake, pellets, frozen. After about two weeks, however, it started showing similar signs as the clownfish from before, and I was hoping to cure it before it died. I got some medicated food from the LFS (prazi), but it wouldn't eat it. After a few days, it stopped eating, and I was sure it wouldn't make it.
After a week, however, it actually started eating flake again, and after a few more days, it was eating more and more flake. It still refuses to eat the medicated food and has the same symptoms (stringy feces, rapid breathing), but it actually looks like its recovering on its own.
I will continue to try to feed it the medicated food every now and then, but for now, I'm just surprised that it's recovering on its own.
Should I continue down this path and just hope that it recovers on its own, or is medication via QT tank necessary?
Also I learned that the LFS doses the fish tanks with copper, which explains how the fish there don't show signs of disease.
To save one, I had tried giving it a freshwater bath after it hadn't eaten for a week, didn't really help, and it died the next day. The other one died shortly thereafter on its own.
So now I've got another nano tank, and thinking that the LFS had changed their ways, I got another clown. It started out super healthy, eating flake, pellets, frozen. After about two weeks, however, it started showing similar signs as the clownfish from before, and I was hoping to cure it before it died. I got some medicated food from the LFS (prazi), but it wouldn't eat it. After a few days, it stopped eating, and I was sure it wouldn't make it.
After a week, however, it actually started eating flake again, and after a few more days, it was eating more and more flake. It still refuses to eat the medicated food and has the same symptoms (stringy feces, rapid breathing), but it actually looks like its recovering on its own.
I will continue to try to feed it the medicated food every now and then, but for now, I'm just surprised that it's recovering on its own.
Should I continue down this path and just hope that it recovers on its own, or is medication via QT tank necessary?
Also I learned that the LFS doses the fish tanks with copper, which explains how the fish there don't show signs of disease.
