brooklynella

[Hammbone]

My clownfish had what I think was brooklynella. I treated them with formalyn for 4 days, they recovered and I put them back in the main tank only to watch them come down with brooklynella again.
I have placed them in the QT and treated them again. They are doing well. I plan on leaving them in QT for 4 to 6 weeks now.

I have other fish in my main tank that all seem to be unaffected and doing great. I have a hippo tang, yellow tang, male watanabei angel, clown fairy wrasse, orange lyretail anthias, banded cave goby, neon cleaner goby, an LTA & a RBTA, 2 cleaner shrimp, 7 peppermint shrimp, 2 sea cucumbers, anemone crab, 2 porcelain crabs, lots of hermit crabs & assorted snails, etc. This is all in a 110G tank with about 200G total volume.

I have turned on my UV sterilizer.

My question is: Will the brooklynella remain present in my main tank? Will the other fish be carriers even if they are not affected by it? How do I know if and when it is safe to put my clownfish back into my main tank?

Thanks, Jim

 

[Hammbone]

Anyone have an answer for me?

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

Brook needs a host fish to survive, it is more common in Clowns but other fish can host this parasite..You really should remove all the fish, give them 3 formalin dips 2-3 days apart and place them in qt for a month so your tank can go fallow..This should kill of the Brook

 

[Hammbone]

That's what I was afraid of. Unfortunately, my QT is 20G and the clownfish are already in there. I have no way to QT this many other fish.

Jim

 

[smooth_9]

is that it I wanted to read more.

 

[Hammbone]

Well,
I can tell you that all my other fish still remain unaffected and healthy. They are all still in my main tank.
I think I will just wait 4 to 6 weeks and try reintroducing my clownfish.

Jim

 

[Fountainhead]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7978979#post7978979 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hammbone
Well,
I can tell you that all my other fish still remain unaffected and healthy. They are all still in my main tank.
I think I will just wait 4 to 6 weeks and try reintroducing my clownfish.

That's what I'd do in your situation. It's still possible that you other fish will keep the Brook alive in your main tank (yet remain unaffected) but at least you'll be sure that the clowns themselves are fully free of Brook before you re-introduce them.

 

[Brian J]

I had brooklynella in my 65 g fish-only tank. not sure where which fish it came from.
Within a few days of seeing symptoms (after misdiagnosing and treating for Ich) it wiped out all my fish (coral beauty, 2 clowns, engineer gobi, 2 cardinals, and a royal gramma. The only fish that survived was a watchman gobi, that didn't show any signs of the disease. I gave him a FW dip, and put him into quarantine with a few hermits that also survived. Two weeks later he is still doing fine. I tore down the tank, bleached everything, and set up 2 additional quarantine tanks for my 90 reef and to restock my 65. Not taking any more chances, everything going into my tanks now will go through a 72 day quarantine period. it's a long time, but it will pay off in the end.

 

[ThRoewer]

I had brooklynella in my 65 g fish-only tank. not sure where which fish it came from.
Within a few days of seeing symptoms (after misdiagnosing and treating for Ich) it wiped out all my fish (coral beauty, 2 clowns, engineer gobi, 2 cardinals, and a royal gramma. The only fish that survived was a watchman gobi, that didn't show any signs of the disease. I gave him a FW dip, and put him into quarantine with a few hermits that also survived. Two weeks later he is still doing fine. I tore down the tank, bleached everything, and set up 2 additional quarantine tanks for my 90 reef and to restock my 65. Not taking any more chances, everything going into my tanks now will go through a 72 day quarantine period. it's a long time, but it will pay off in the end.

Brooklynella isn't that virulent. Generally it requires some form of body contact to spread from one fish to another. It also doesn't affect health and well established fish as much as stressed out fish with a compromised immune system. That's why you encounter it mostly with fresh imported fish and in particular with Anemonefish.

My suspicion - based on your description - would be that you actually had a Amyloodinium (velvet) outbreak.