Blizzard 123
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So my smaller male clown appears to have lateral line disease. They are also bullying my blue green chromis now. What should I do about the lateral line disease?
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Bma1972
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Lateral Line on a clown not common. Can you attach pictures. I would feed well with Seachem Kanaplex. Mix it with a frozen or gel food. It will help with secondary infection. My guess is that it is probably a scrape or cut that is infected and running down the lateral line. LLD would be recessed and pitted. If your running carbon pull it out for now. Of it would happen to be LLD it will get better with time. Feed quality food and get some good pics up.
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Read this
http://www.aquaworldaquarium.com/Articles/TonyGriffitts/MF_HLLE_Article.htm
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http://www.aquaworldaquarium.com/Articles/TonyGriffitts/MF_HLLE_Article.htm
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Blizzard 123
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ok thank you I will try to get pics up. I will try to find the seachem kanaplex.
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It seems kanaplex is not reef safe. The clown is not in qt.
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Well the pictures came out blurry very hard to see but on his head a little indent or scratch is visible
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it is kind of the black splotch
Bma1972
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I use it all the time. I have a 220 gallon that I run carbon in and I had a six-year-old Sailfin tang and a very large hippo Tang about 10 years old that I treat the food not the water that's the key. I put just one small scoop on Frozen mysis shrimp let it soak in and then Target feed the fish. I've been doing this for years I've never had any problems I only used to treat the secondary bacterial infections will not cure lateral line disease. To treat the lateral line disease I feed well and do big water changes frequently of about 20%
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Blizzard 123
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I don't know why the clowns have lateral line my nitrates are about 0. They are new so perhaps was issues from store? Or maybe it is a infection or cut but it is on both sides in exact spots. So kanaplex is reef safe just put it on food and target feed? I only have a small mushroom coral as of now but I also have a very large aneneome will it be ok?
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How should I target feed? Should I use a turkey baster? I'm not sure how to do it never done it before.
Mishri
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he doesn't have lateral line disease. I wouldn't feed him kanaplex or anything else unless an actual infection appeared. -it's likely damage from fighting, possibly running into rocks while chasing chromis.. bacterial and fungal infections look like growths coming out of the wounds, cottony or bumpy.
if your clowns are bullying chromis your tank is too small. mated pairs of clownfish always get very territorial. they'll usually stake out about 10gallons-20gallons of tank space as their own. (maroon clowns and clarkii will go to about 40 gallons of space). They'll bite you too if you put your hand in their space.
if he does somehow have lateral line disease... (I highly doubt) feed a variety of frozen foods.. live black worms maybe (you can order them online).. ignore the people who say garlic(a lot of ppl say this for HLLE).. it can help if a fish isn't eating, it's an appetite stimulant, but has no nutritional value to fish.
if your clowns are bullying chromis your tank is too small. mated pairs of clownfish always get very territorial. they'll usually stake out about 10gallons-20gallons of tank space as their own. (maroon clowns and clarkii will go to about 40 gallons of space). They'll bite you too if you put your hand in their space.
if he does somehow have lateral line disease... (I highly doubt) feed a variety of frozen foods.. live black worms maybe (you can order them online).. ignore the people who say garlic(a lot of ppl say this for HLLE).. it can help if a fish isn't eating, it's an appetite stimulant, but has no nutritional value to fish.
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Blizzard 123
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ok I don't think space s a issue the tank is about 100 gallons the reason the clowns bully him I think is he likes to swim with them but they don't want him near them. He willl probably learn in time. In case I do need to target feed kanaplex would it be ok? and How should I do it? for now I will just watch for any change. Thanks
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I do notice a brown tint on the edge of my foxface fins? Still trying to figure out what it is.
Mishri
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I wouldn't target feed kanaplex. I'd hospital tank him at that point... or use a reef safe antibacterial/antifungal. there are a few out there.
sounds like your chromis needs a few friends.. they like to shoal. 3-6 is usually a good number in that size tank. they'll shoal more if you have more aggressive fish in there too.. with few fish they'll spread out.
sounds like your chromis needs a few friends.. they like to shoal. 3-6 is usually a good number in that size tank. they'll shoal more if you have more aggressive fish in there too.. with few fish they'll spread out.
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yeah I was considering that but this guy was by himself at the store and I don't know if I will have the room for 5 or 6 chromis. I also heard they will kill each other off until 2 or one remains. As for the reef safe bacterial and fungal treatments what would you recommend? Just in case a infection occurs or the brown on the foxface fins is a fin rot.
Mishri
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melafix and pimafix are reef safe. my dad kept 6 chromis in his 120 gallon for years without any deaths, they liked to stick together once he put a foxface in there.. so yours should do fine. they might only pick on each other with no other active/aggressive fish in there.. i dunno.. but i've seen others keep them for awhile too.. (I never kept them, i don't like the way they look)
-there are a lot of types of bacteria out there though, so frequently you'll need to try different meds to knock it out. do some searching on what fungal and bacterial infections look like on fish though before dosing, no sense in medicating unnecessarily.
for your fox face i'd switch to daily feeding a 3"x3" piece of algae.. or around there.. whatever is easy to tear off. once he gets big you'll go up to larger.. whatever he can finish in 15-20 minutes. they would naturally graze all day.. so daily or even twice daily on smaller amounts isn't a bad idea.
-there are a lot of types of bacteria out there though, so frequently you'll need to try different meds to knock it out. do some searching on what fungal and bacterial infections look like on fish though before dosing, no sense in medicating unnecessarily.
for your fox face i'd switch to daily feeding a 3"x3" piece of algae.. or around there.. whatever is easy to tear off. once he gets big you'll go up to larger.. whatever he can finish in 15-20 minutes. they would naturally graze all day.. so daily or even twice daily on smaller amounts isn't a bad idea.
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ok thanks will look into those. If only I had the room I don't think my filtration could handle that many as of now but always wanted a group of fish just thought would kill each other guess depends on size of shoal. Maybe a possibility in the future.
Mishri
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filtration is usually from your live rock.. you are a little light on the live rock from the pics on your other thread with no sump.. but i think you'd be okay. 2 clowns, a foxface, 6 chromis and a couple cardinals in a 100 gal.. shouldn't be a problem. you've got the ammonia alert badge going for you so should be good.
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ok I think I might try it but I also have a small snowflake in there.
