Hurt Occelaris

[Oscar Spain]

Hello everybody. My male Occelaris has got an injury. I realized four days ago and it is not improving. The fish feeds well and its behaviour is normal. In fact the pair has started spawning and the male takes good care of the hatch. Today I have had the male in 1015 water for almost 2 hours an have given reef dip to the injury. I hope it helps. I have been waiting a long time for them to start spawning. I don´t want it to die. I attach some pictures. Any ideas or suggestions about the cause and treament?. Thank you in advance for your help.

November 19

November 24

 

[CuriousJohn]

hi. im sorry to hear about your hurt clown. umm i wish i could help but im only 14. i no little about saltwater tanks. ive had my tank for a year. i got it for christmas. its 20 glalons. i have 2 occelaris just like you.....wait. i think your fish has some kind of skin disease. kinda like cotton mouth accept on the body. do some research on it. i think that if it gets bad your supposed to scrape off the white stuff to stop it from spreading. but please, before you take my advice, do research on it because i am only guessing. i have 1 question. what kind of anemone is that. the green with the grey tips. thats my favorite color combination.

 

[littleshark]

Does it affect the clown in anyway? Maybe you should remove the clown and QT it. The green thing with purple tip is not an anemone. Its a frogspawn (Type of coral)

 

[Oscar Spain]

Thanks you two. The coral is Euphyllia. It´s a good candidate to substitute a real anemone. I really like it. Littleshark, QT stands for quarantine?. The clown´s behaviour is normal. If it doesn´t improve soon I will put the fish in a separate tank. So far I don´t know what else I can do.

 

[Tylt33]

I'm not sure I would recommend dipping it in a lower salinity tank. While that helps with Brook and Ich, if it's a flesh injury it could further aggrevate it and stress the fish. I would continue to monitor the fish and his behavior, make sure that he is eating, and make sure you're giving him a high quality food and probably fortifying it with Vitachem or something of that nature. Make sure you keep your tank parameters on.

And John, that coral is known as "Frogspawn" (scientific name Euphyllia Paradivisa), and is quite beautiful and easy to keep.

 

[chrisstie]

You might want to look into Melafix\Pimafix.. i'd say more melafix for this one but they are one of the very very very few medications that i would actually trust to add into the tank (OR if you can catch him you can treat in Quarantine) .. it helps with any bacterial and some fungal infections - i think pimafix helps more broad bacterial infections but that looks more like a flesh wound that will need time to heal.

You can also treat both at the same time if you're not sure which but it may be worth a try to speed his recovery along

 

[Oscar Spain]

Thank you again. I have already ordered those two medicines to treat my clownfish. They are not available in Spain or at least I don´t know where to get them, so I have ordered them in the USA. I don´t know how long it will take. I tried with the low salinity bath because I didn´t know what happened to him and I felt I had to do something. I hope it heals soon. I am giving him vitamins and it keeps on feeding well. The female so far is OK. I attach some pictures I have taken tonight.

 

[Tylt33]

I'm wondering if the female took a bite out of him? The bite mark looks like it is almost the same size as her mouth.

 

[Slakker]

I don't think this is a disease or parasite...it looks like an injury. Maybe you have a crab or shrimp in there that could have attacked it?

 

[Oscar Spain]

I can´t say it for sure but I don´think the female bite the male. She is quite shy and peaceful. I have some lysmatas but I don´t think they did it. There is a crab I want catch but it is far from the place where the clowns live. If something bite it I don´t know it yet.

 

[Slakker]

Keep in mind that crabs move, and so do clowns...maybe the clown drifted off one night, maybe the crab snuck up on the sleeping clowns...or perhaps something else happened...it's tough to say what caused that, but I definitely think it looks like a wound.

 

[AquariaOCD]

Oscar,

Tu tienes una "pm".

gracias................
Kameron