SICK maroon Clown, please help me.

[yiliyang]

Hello:

I just realized both of my maroon clown fishes are sick. They eat ok and all, but there are white stuff growing on them. It is not ICK. I have ick in the tank, but that is not what this is. I have photo of their spots. The spots only appears under the pectoral fin. If the fishes hold the pect fin to their body, you will not see anything.

There are 2 other fishes in that same tank, but they are not sick at all.

The white spots are too big to be ick. It almost look like the spot came from underneath their skin.

If you have seen this, please help.

Yili

 

[GSMguy]

cleaner shrimp and a cleaner gobby keep my maroons clean

 

[cschweitzer]

Could be internal parasites...look through some sites on common clownfish diseases. How long have they been in your tank? Were they wild caught? Where'd you get them from, LFS, online site, friend, etc?

Somewhere on rareclownfish.com I think someone went through this. Does it actually come out of the scales? Did it make a bump on them when forming or did it just show up? Do clownfish get flukes; if so could it be them?

 

[yiliyang]

Thanks for replying. The gold banded one I got about 3 month ago from someone leaving the hobby, it came with a RBTA. The smaller one come from a petsmart. They looked fine for the last couple of month. The spots only formed in the last week or so. I have not introduced any new live stock at all.

The wounds do look like they come out of the scales, it looks like there are cotton covering them. Disgusting to look at.

I am going to monitor them for a couple more days, if things gets worse, I will fish them out and medicate them in a 5 gal plastic tank I have.

 

[GreatGems]

I have the same problem

I have the same problem

Hello Everyone i am new here i have baught a pair of Clown about 1 month ago took them how did everything right when acclimatizing them with in 1 day they had the same thing as these the next day there where dead.

Now just yesterday i baught 2 more acclimatized them made sure my tank conditions where close to My LFS Just today i notice this little white spot on the one very small. Now i have 3 Blue Green Chromis, and one Cleaner Wrasse. Witch have been in there for more then 3 month Problem free.

My Tank is a Fish only tank 37 Gallon Tall Tank with 20 pounds of live rock. Water quality is Top notch.

If anyone has this problem and has treated it please let me know