pufferpoison
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Ok first, a friend gave me a few fish that were in his tank. He seems to have caught what he thinks is brook disease. He can't keep any clowns in there without them dying, all other fish show no symptoms and eat normal. I put 2 Perc clowns, a six line wrasse and a royal gramma in a qt 10G tank. It already has been cycled. It has an AC50 filter and a MJ600 in it alone with some pvc pipe for hiding and a bare bottom.
Treated all fish with formalin .5 CC per half gallon of water for 45 minutes. Next day dipped the clowns again. Wrasse carpet surfed, royal gramma is doing fine, lost one clown other seemed ok. Redipped the remaining fish again. This clown was eating until about 4 days ago. Game him another dip and added him directly to my 90G tank. He still won't eat and his orange has a black tint to it. He stays in one spot right by the bubble coral on bottom, but whe i take my mag float around the bottom he swims all over and acts fine except he won't eat and has a black tint to him. None of my buddies fish have died and he has like 10 fish all together, they're all eating and looking good. My royal in QT is eating and looking good. I have a perc in my nano tank and he eats like a pig no matter when you feed him or what you feed him.
I don't know what's wrong with this clown or if it was brook or something else, but it doesn't seem to affect any other fish, he was in QT for 4 weeks and still alive, You would think that the formalin dip would have cured if it was brook. Also i lost a few fish to the same thing about a month and a half ago from the same tank from the LFS. All my other fish are fine, the clowns would just stop eating and swim at the bottom and then be dead. They have never shown any signs of scratching or anything like that. They didn't stay at the top like they were short of breath or anything. The food i'm trying to feed the clown now is brine, mysis and emerald entree mixed up and soaked in kent garlic extreme and selcon. I'm desperate here, the guy's still alive but he won't be for long if he doesn't eat. I have been feeding heavily and shut off all PH so the food stays right there and he doesn't even try to eat. Other fish are a regal tank, yellow tang, green manderin, lawnmower blenny and a firefish. All look good and eat like pigs.
I need to do something before this clown dies too. ANYTHING ANYBODY HAS TO OFFER WILL BE VERY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!
Treated all fish with formalin .5 CC per half gallon of water for 45 minutes. Next day dipped the clowns again. Wrasse carpet surfed, royal gramma is doing fine, lost one clown other seemed ok. Redipped the remaining fish again. This clown was eating until about 4 days ago. Game him another dip and added him directly to my 90G tank. He still won't eat and his orange has a black tint to it. He stays in one spot right by the bubble coral on bottom, but whe i take my mag float around the bottom he swims all over and acts fine except he won't eat and has a black tint to him. None of my buddies fish have died and he has like 10 fish all together, they're all eating and looking good. My royal in QT is eating and looking good. I have a perc in my nano tank and he eats like a pig no matter when you feed him or what you feed him.
I don't know what's wrong with this clown or if it was brook or something else, but it doesn't seem to affect any other fish, he was in QT for 4 weeks and still alive, You would think that the formalin dip would have cured if it was brook. Also i lost a few fish to the same thing about a month and a half ago from the same tank from the LFS. All my other fish are fine, the clowns would just stop eating and swim at the bottom and then be dead. They have never shown any signs of scratching or anything like that. They didn't stay at the top like they were short of breath or anything. The food i'm trying to feed the clown now is brine, mysis and emerald entree mixed up and soaked in kent garlic extreme and selcon. I'm desperate here, the guy's still alive but he won't be for long if he doesn't eat. I have been feeding heavily and shut off all PH so the food stays right there and he doesn't even try to eat. Other fish are a regal tank, yellow tang, green manderin, lawnmower blenny and a firefish. All look good and eat like pigs.
I need to do something before this clown dies too. ANYTHING ANYBODY HAS TO OFFER WILL BE VERY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!
