Is this an illness or just beaten up?

[snulma1]

So this is the second pair of true percs I've gotten from this LFS, which happens to be one of the better ones in the area. Unfortunately, I ruined the fist pair, by not waiting for ich to clear out of my system from the bad pair I had before them. So I waited over 2 months to get this pair. And then they got treated for internal parasites by the LFS because the male wasn't eating very well.

So I bring them home and they look great, swim around well, and eat like pigs. Here is what he looked like.

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Then I start to notice that the male begins losing some color around his fin after the pectorals (don't know the name of this fin) Its not ripped or torn, just an absence of color. So I figured it was from the female picking on him. Well its not 2 weeks and my male clown looks like this.

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They are both eating well, feeding them Ora Glo pellets, as well as Hikari pellets, and alternating, frozen mysis, and cyclopeze with selcon added to it.

They do occasionally have white stringy poop, but not breathing heavily, and both do the agressive/submissive thing that mated clowns do.

So what is going on with them? Do I need to pull them out and treat them, and if so, for what and with what? Thanks for the help guys!

 

[Eric55]

I've read consistently that white stringy poop is a sign of an internal parasite.

 

[snulma1]

yes, but are the internal parasites causing the loss of color, or is there another disease thats doing that? or is it just cause the female is picking on him?

 

[marc price]

and yet another reason to buy tank raised.

 

[ScubaDiver93]

i agree

 

[snulma1]

What makes you think these are WC?

 

[marc price]

aren't they?
aside from the condition at the lfs, they have a well developed third stripe and a good amount of black between the first and second stripe. unusual for tank raised true percs which usually come in at a younger age and have less developed markings. picasso percs being an exception but they are a special order item from ora. nor do they look like rods onyx which also are currently sold pre third stripe.
truth be told because of the social order of clownfishes, you don't know how old wild caught clown's could be.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

My maroon is doing the same thing, if it is an internal parasite what kind of treatment is called for.May be someone will chime in that can help out.I was thinking the same thing you were, about being wc.( sorry for jumping your thread).