parasites? Freshwate dip?

[dantodd]

OK, my female clown is looking better with maracyn2 hospital and ad her first formalin dip yesterday along with a freshwater dip.

The "lesion" or parasite on her looks like it is gone and the line along her back is much less apparent.

However; one of her tankmates, a coral beauty, looks bad now. I guess it isn't going to be easy to get this tank healthy again....

I now think it is an external parasite and hope that a freshwater dip will get rid of them. Even if I do get them to drop in a freshwater dip I don't have anything like the number of hospital tanks to be able to get everyone out of the tank to let it sit fallow. If I don't go out and buy a few more hospital tanks am I just inviting a re-infestation if they fish go right back in the tank?

Here is a picture of the coral beauty.

Those are spirulina flakes and he is still eating aggressively. Only the spots I've circled are on him, the rest are on the glass.

 

[TOURKID]

sorry to hear about all the trouble your going thru dan. I dont have an answer to help you. but i did see alot of cheep acrilic tanks on sale at petsmart yesterday.. less than ten dollors. and they had cheep heaters as well. (dicovered is a great place to get cheap, cheaply made items i dont need for to long)

 

[dantodd]

acrylic tanks for $10 is a great price. I guess it's my own fault for introducing the little clown without proper QT.

Painful lesson and I feel bad for needlessly putting the fish through this.

 

[TOURKID]

yeah.. ive been eyeing up my baby maroon DIEING to put him in my reef. you've actually kept me in check. i was so close to doing it yesterday morning.

So I wanted to ask you. can you tell me some of the earliest signs that you noticed for brook? It seems to be 'going around' and I dont wanna dip my guy unless he actually has it.. (although still really healthy looking right now)

and also.. how long was your guy in the reef before everyone started acting funny?

sorry to hijack...

 

[dantodd]

He was only in my tank for about 1.5 weeks before the sickness showed up.

Lee is a great source of info and may have a recommendation on prophylactic formalin treatments. Your little guy is so small it is scary putting him in formalin.

No worries about hijacking but you might be better off to post the question into my brook thread so people will see it in a "brook" context.