possible clownfish disease with pics...need some help

[epleeds]

I have had this clownfish for about 7 years. In the last week or so, she has developed some white scaly things under her chin near her gills. Can anyone identify what this is and if there is something i need to do to treat her.

I have not added any new fish in the last 6 months, only some corals. She has been hosting in my hammers and frogspawn, but its only on one side of her...none of my other fish look affected..

thanks...

eric

 

[Barracuda1]

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It looks like ick but is it lumpy or bacterial like

 

[billsreef]

Can you retake those pictures without the glare? Hold the camera at an angle to the glass, or don't use the flash if possible.

 

[epleeds]

ill take some more tomorrow...

 

[epleeds]

new and better pics...

 

[billsreef]

Looks like the beginnings of brooklynella. Best treatment is formalin baths every other day till cured. To do a formalin bath, set aside one gallon of SW, add 1ml of formalin, aerate heavily, and place fish in bath for 45 minutes to an hour. Usually 3 treatments will suffice.

 

[epleeds]

i take it i need to get the fish out of the reef? and put him in a q/t tank? also, does anyone know how this starts...

 

[billsreef]

Yup, using a QT for the duration of treatment best. It's a ciliated protozoan, it could have hitchhiked in on one of those new corals. There are also a couple of opportunistic ciliates that could present the same symptoms, but fortunately even those possibilities will be taking care of with formalin.

 

[epleeds]

thanks bill. guess i will be setting up a qt for her. never realized that there could be something on a coral that would affect my fish.

thks...