Fish sick in QT, can i add another?

[moneymm]

2 weeks ago I got a pair of clowns: one med black and one nano orange (ocelleris).

4 days ago the black one died after a miserable 8 days. I never was able to diagnose him.. I tried everything, FW dips, all different foods, adding two air stones. He was always gasping for air at the top and never ate once.

My other little guy is still alive and has eaten at every feeding. I have never seen him poop until yesterday there was an inch long stringy poop hanging off him for like a minute. It wasn't really white it looked Orange to me.. But maybe that's just my crappy qt lighting... And it was gone after a min, this was 5 min after he ate also.

10 days ago or so I treated the tank w/ prazipro as I thought that might solve the other fishes problem, but it was during the tank transfer process. So the fish only received treatment for 2 days max. (if he did have a parasite issue, im not sure those two days would have treated it)

He has been acting normal swimming around , staying in his pvc 90% of the time. until today he has been on the top corner of the tank all day.

I just treated the QT with prazi pro now.

I was excited and planning on going to get a new clown(black snow) today. (b/c the black one died last week and i want to pair them together at the same time.

Do i have to hold off? I know this probably sounds impatient, but i mean i did TTM, and plan on a 4 week QT period, but if i treat him and do a full QT, then you are talking waiting 8 weeks for my pair of clowns are joined.

 

[Cujo13]

If it were mine I would make sure my current fish was healthy and parasite free before I added another fish to the equation. Stringy poop is a common sign of an internal parasite.

 

[Newsmyrna80]

^agree Find out what's going on with this one and get it healthy.

 

[GroktheCube]

I'd recommend against it.

A few months ago I broke down my DT to treat all of my fish for ich (got it from an un-QTed invert). I figured that'd be a good time to add a few new fish.

Big mistake.

One of the new fish had velvet. Miraculously and after much consternation I was able to save all the original fish except for two suicidal flasher wrasses (one of whom hit the lid of the bucket I was using for a diagnostic FWD and managed to sever an artery in his gill, the other managing to find a miniscule gap by the HOB filter and land on the floor), but lost all of the new additions but one. I'm pretty sure that I could have saved them too if I had been QTing them alone in an environment where they could have gotten more one-on-one TLC, not had to face competition for food, etc.

The next time I get fish, I won't be repeating the same mistake.