somethings wrong with my clownfish...

prosnow · #1 04-16-2006, 07:49 PM

he seems to stay in one spot allll day, (back left corner of the tank) and has some sort fungus growing on his side, it almost looks like its eating a hole in the side of him, and some similar marks around his face...hes not scratching or anything, and i'm 99% sure this isnt ick...

all tank specs are good, salinity is 1.025, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate barley noticable, he does eat, but only cyclopeeze,

i've tryed taking a picture but its just not turning out...

any ideas? or somewhere i could look?

prosnow · #2 04-16-2006, 09:06 PM

bump...no clue?

Bob I · #3 04-16-2006, 09:43 PM

Maybe look under Lymphocystis

prosnow · #4 04-16-2006, 10:59 PM

no, its not that...i think is Brooklynella, what the best way to deal with this, i've just qt'd him

prosnow · #5 04-17-2006, 01:38 AM

well done a bit more reading and i'm pretty sure he'd be dead if it was brook, so i'm thinking just some sort of bacterial infection, any suggestions on what to do???

i have crabs · #6 04-17-2006, 01:40 AM

get some selcon and garlic if its a bacterial problem,but by chance was the clown hosting in some type of coral?

prosnow · #7 04-17-2006, 01:42 AM

not that i know of, i only have a hammer coral and xenia...could the hammer coral of stung him or something?

i have crabs · #8 04-17-2006, 01:45 AM

ive been seeing latley that a lot of clowns get dark blotches when hosting in frogspon's/hammers/torch corals,so it might just be irritating them but i dont really know much about it for shure.