| First of all how long has your clowns been together if they have paired, is the one that has the "ick" smaller of the two common clowns. B/c if so the larger female will beat up on it without us evening knowing she is doing so. ( By stressing him out and staying close to him and making him do what she wants. Not necessarily by beating up on him.) So keep a close eye to see your clowns interactions!! Also from where she has been hitting him he can get an infection. And then develope some white fungus bumps that look like sores. So make total sure that this isnt it.
Since you have invertebrates copper based treatments are out!!
You can also look into a cleaner shrimp. But make sure to get a nice healthy one. Garlic is great but only a preventative. To break it down it makes the disease cysts harder to stick to the fish and also biulds up the fishes immunity!! So once this passes look into it if you want or just feed high quality fare. A lot of good fish foods have prepared garlic in them already..
But if they havent paired yet they might so watch out for it and if they do get the third clown out b/c they will beat on him. |