tomato clown pair, mama has ich

[rbrusletto]

Let me preface this by saying that I have looked through all the FAQs and have some questions I couldn't find answers to.

I noticed two tiny white spots last night on mama tomato or my pair of tomato clowns while working on the tank. A friend of mine came over and verified it does look like ich. Considering its such a small amount, I am leaving her in the tank to monitor until today when I get home from work. My question isn't about the ich.

Its about the pair.

We have a long tentacle anemone, which mama tomato hosts, papa tomato, sleeps up in the upper corner of the tank, and is never allowed to go to the anemone. Is this normal?

If I have to take mama tomato out and into QT, will it break the pair, and will papa tomato become another mama tomato during the time mama tomato is out away in QTland?

Should I take papa tomato along for the journey through QTland?

If so, is a 10 Gallon too small for the two?

 

[MarinaP]

Clowns rarely get ich.

If so, both need to be treated w/cupramine/sg of ,9 .

 

[kkyyllee]

if ur gonna qt you need to do both, and i would use a 20gallon, a 10 seems too small imo, just feed it well and it can probably fight it off

 

[jpgwold]

I would suggest qt both as has already been said but I think you could manage with the ten. Hope things go well for you though.

 

[rbrusletto]

thanks for the replies, I didn't mention that they are small.. female is maybe 1.5", male 1"


what else could possibly cause white spots on tomato clowns? Its only on the female, which spends most of the time with the anemone

 

[MarinaP]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10333965#post10333965 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rbrusletto
what else could possibly cause white spots on tomato clowns?

Amylo, califlower... Look it up.

 

[fatdaddy]

My tomato clowns host the anemone together. Although when I first added them to the tank with the 'nem, papa ended up living in his own cave for a few weeks while they worked it out. 1.5" sounds very small for a tomato. Maybe they aren't a pair yet.

You didn't mention if there were other tankmates, but You need to QT all fish for 4 weeks to get the ich to die out in the tank. They need a fish to continue their lifecycle, so no fish means they will die out. You can put them in different QT tanks (2-3 10 gallons), but they all need to be treated at the same time to burn out the infection.