Mayday! Clowns look terrible

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My guess would have been brooklynellosis, especially if mucus shedding. It's a nasty parasite, acts real fast to. Dropping salinity does nothing for this parasite. Only method of treatment is formalin baths, but its also nasty stuff to use and can be dangerous for fish as the warmer your water, the less formalin you use as both formalin & increasing temperature reduces the oxygen saturation of the water. In other words your fish will be screaming, "Must have...oxygen!" that’s before they collapse of course to their death. Every heard the saying sometimes the cure is worse then the disease. Well that's a good example of it here. Did I forget to mention Formalin is dangerous for human to. Has to be used in VERy ventilated area.

Originally Posted by Johnny Reefer

I QT'ed 2 Amphiprion ocellaris last month using Copper-Safe with no adverse effects. When I saw this post I ran to my bottle of Copper-Safe. (Say it ain't so!). Couldn't find the warning about clowns and Copper-Safe you speak of.
It is Mardel's Copper-Safe you are refering to? Cheers,

I have also used Copper-Safe on clowns many times without death. If you lost them it could have been may factors mainly the major one probably being to late.

I have read in the past claims that copper use with clowns could effect the reproduction in the fish, but has been no proof of this, that I know of. Knowing copper is made to be your last option in treatment cases anyway. But again you have to wonder if the cure is indeed worse then the disease/parasite.

Originally Posted by BCOrchidGuy

I've always been a fan of Cupramine, it's safe, it's effective and it's always in my cabinet. Doug

IMO, I am not a fan of Cupramine compared to CopperSafe. I have found myself that Cupramine seems to be more harsh on fish while treatment. But the main reason I'm not a fan of Cupramine is the way it falls out of solution making it so easy to over dose (happens alot) and requires A LOT of monitoring during the whole treatment time to keep the dose even & safe. Where as CooperSafe you can measure, dose, it does not fall out of solution and will stay in water for up to a month. Did I happen to mention as well, that Coppersafe is less then half the price compared to Cupramine.