Sick clowns? Brook??

[Korrine]

Well my clowns have some issues

Brook maybe?? They are ORA fish, though?? I don't know, but my bigger one has developed a white fuzzy spot on her cheek and it seems as though the gills are inflamed. Like she holds them out a bit.

The smaller clown has white fuzzy spots on the front fins and around his anus in the back. A tidbit above his anus I guess. Gills seem normal for him, though...I'm not a happy camper.

They are still colored right(no fading) and have been eating. They are also active, swimming about the tank. Not rubbing on anything as if to get something off.

Up-to-date water stats
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 15
ph 7.8 hmm low ph.
temp about 78-79 degrees
sg about 1.024


What's your opinion? I can't get a good picture w/my point and shoot camera :mad2: I've tried and tried. Probably about 30 pictures and they were all blurry. Tried sport mode, micro, and regular.

 

[ocellaris123]

Doesn't sound like brook but something to keep an eye out for. Symptoms of brook include heavy sloughing of the body slime, rapid breathing, and labored "erratic swimming."

 

[WDLV]

Pics would be helpful.

 

[Korrine]

I can't get pics w/my point n shoot camera. I think it's lympho whatever though.

 

[Korrine]

they appear fine for the most part. Just have white junk on one's fins and a tid bit on the side. The one was kinda breathing harder...I think.

 

[Korrine]

I did manage to get a few pics of my clowns....man I NEED a DSLR with a fast shutter speed. That would catch the clowns in their wiggly movement, right??

I don't know if these help at all, but it looks like white fuzz. It appears to be growing inside her mouth too Kinda disturbs me.

 

[rmrjwieger]

looks like ick to be

 

[WDLV]

I'd go with fungal infection. If it were me I'd put it in a hyposaline QT and treat for fungus...

 

[traveller7]

I would not lean toward Crypto or Brook based on that picture. Gills look a bit red in the picture. White turt could be bacterial, fungal, or lymph.

Not knowing for sure, I'd lean toward Walt's advice. Hypo, a broad spectrum Bacterial/Fungal medicine, feeding 4 times a day.

 

[Goodwin9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15359677#post15359677 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Korrine
I did manage to get a few pics of my clowns....man I NEED a DSLR with a fast shutter speed. That would catch the clowns in their wiggly movement, right??

Using the flash will decrease exposure time and help reduce the blurriness. Turning off the pumps during photos helps too.

 

[Korrine]

the female clown pictured died yesterday evening. She was even eating fine the day before when I fed them. Very strange. Seems a lot of things I've read they are supposed to stop eating and possibly "flash" against the rocks. I'm not sure wth this is.

 

[1geo]

It would appear that you clown has parasites. What kind is another question. You can only be certain by taking a tissues sample and examining it under a microscope. One chemical will treat both Ich and Brook and that's Formalin. Set up a QT tank and move your fish to it. Do not use the water or anything thing else in the tank the fish came out of. In the QT tank put an air stone, heater, HOT particle filter, light, and nothing else, NO live rock, live sand or anything else alive. If the fish are small I would put some plastic pipe in the bottom for them to hid in. How get some 37% formalin. Put one gal of the QT water in a vessel and to it add 1 cc of formalin. Put your clown in this bath for at least 45 minutes and up to 60 minutes. Keep a close eye out for extreme stress and remove the fish back to the QT tank if necessary. Give one of these baths every other day for 10 days. You fish are now cured of parasites but the tank they came out of is not and you will need to keep it fish-less for 8 weeks to ensure no parasites survive.