My fish is peeling!
- Thread starter Amy83820
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arizona tech
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how long have you had the fish? and your water paramerters?
Amy83820
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The fish is new. No, i didn't quarantine. Please, no lectures. I should have....i know. I have a quarantine tank, but it's not set up yet. I tested my h20 and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. I didn't write down the exact numbers, so i don't have them to post. I looked up pictures of Brookynela (sp?), but that's definitely not it. He is not gasping for air. The peeling is from the bottom up. Nothing is wrong with his gills or fins. He is swimming fine. Like I said, the film isn't cloudy. It looks exactly like when you get a sunburn and it starts to peel...all in one piece.
TWallace
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Just because it doesn't show all the symptoms of brook doesn't mean it's not brook. Peeling skin is a sign of brook, and given that it's a clownfish we're talking about, I think a very strong indication of brook. I had clowns that first started with peeling skin, then came tiny white spots similar to ich and stringy poop, then death. I treated with hypo because at the time I thought the white spots were ich. The fish did not respond to this treatment however and died. I'd get the fish out of your tank and into the QT as soon as possible, no matter how hard it is to catch.
Can you provide a picture.
Peeling skin is often just excess mucus generated by the fish in an attempt to shed parasites .. often kind of milky white. Excess mucus production in clownfish is often brooklynella (aka clownfish disease) .. the std recommended treatment for brook is formalin baths.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/formalinbaths.html
Peeling skin is often just excess mucus generated by the fish in an attempt to shed parasites .. often kind of milky white. Excess mucus production in clownfish is often brooklynella (aka clownfish disease) .. the std recommended treatment for brook is formalin baths.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/formalinbaths.html
