Need some ID help please

j.d.moulder25

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Lets see if I can do this without pics, I 'had' 2 perc clowns in my tank. They started getting this white cloudiness or splotches on them. Watching them closely, they started breathing rapidly within a couple of days and looked like their color was coming off of them. 1 of them died about 2 weeks ago. A week later my other clown developed the same thing. I pulled him to a QT tank but he still died shortly after.
Now my tomato clown is developing the white spotches on him and he seems somewhat stressed. I have a mandarin goby and 3 anemones in the tank also but they dont seem to be developing anything. Has anyone else had something like this?, whats it called and cured? Need I be concerned about the other livestock? I looked through several pics on fish diseases but cant make heads or tales of them. All my parameters are good and I have a sterilizer in the tank so my thought is it cant be ick. Any ideas?
 
one thing I forgot to mention prior was that I also bought 3 turbo snails about 4 weeks ago and all 3 have died. Dont know if this will help with ID or not.
 
no tank raised per the LFS or so they say. Ive bought from them before and havent had problems so I dont have a reason not to believe them. But the pics look exactly like what the others did. The tomato clown has 3 anemones it lays in so white patches could be from stinging. Will it hurt to treat him anyway if theres a chance he doesnt have it?
 
Stinging from anemones or other corals usually produce black spots on the fish.
If you think the others had Brook, I would treat the Tomato.
Was he in the tank at the same time or did you add him later? Brook is very common in wild caught Clowns...they frequently have internal parasites as well so watch for white stringy feces
 
Guess Im in for a fun time. You mention the whiute feces, I noticed that on the tomato the other day and thought it was odd but just ignored it. Actually when I woke this morn I seen he had ick by the small white spots he developed overnight. I gave him a freshwater dip and I have him in QT right now getting copper treatment. One other thing I noticed was that he had a small white lump on the bottom of his side fin. The location of it, i thought perhaps it was a piece of 'bone' exposed from his fin, I wonder if that had something to do with whats been going on.
 
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