somethings wrong with my clownfish...

[prosnow]

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]

bump...no clue?

[Bob I]

Maybe look under Lymphocystis

[prosnow]

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

[prosnow]

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]

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

[prosnow]

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]

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.

[prosnow]

well i dont know how i'm going to feed my clown any antibiotics as he wont eat anything but cyclopeeze

[Pan]

i never knew if anything was wrong with my clownfish...never could tell if he was just joking.....

hmm..

if it spreads it's prolly fungal/viral...whatever, or it could be irritated or inflamed area from scratch on rock maybe? or from the coral...it's so hard to tell....every book i have ever read on fish diseases is unclear about a lot of things, or lot of things are related and you guess wrong...etc ...


good luck.