Coraljunkie
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I lost a really small picasso clown now my onyx looks horrible, she's in a medical tank with cupramine along with my other fish but I'm not sure what it is.
Help identify this disease
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Coraljunkie
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one of her sides has color missing and her entire body is covered in specs
Coraljunkie
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Coraljunkie
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Luckily she's still eating. I'm trying to figure out what exactly it is that she has. My display tank I'm going to keep fallow for 14 weeks just to be safe. She's not gilling hard or anything. Is this a bad case of ich or could it possibly be marine velvet?
Mike Johnson
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Your fish have Brooknynella. Sorry. Here's a very good article:
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/disease.html
Look on the same link on how to treat it. It's, sorry to say, a common disease for clown fish.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/disease.html
Look on the same link on how to treat it. It's, sorry to say, a common disease for clown fish.
Mike Johnson
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I hope to stave off bashing from a misdiagnosis. After examining the thread carefully, you are dealing with Marine Velvet not Brooklynella. Don't know what I was thinking. I guess I was going by the first picture alone.
Velvet (Amyloodinium):Symptoms - Because velvet can be such a fast killer, key behavioral symptoms will often prelude visible ones. A fish with velvet may breathe heavy, seek relief by swimming into the flow of a powerhead and act reclusive (velvet makes them sensitive to light).
If visible symptoms do manifest; velvet appears the same as ich, except the fish will usually be covered in “dust.” This dust may look gold colored if viewed at the right angle and under the right spectrum of light. Velvet is often misdiagnosed as ich and is the main “tank killer” in our hobby. It can wipe out all your fish in less than 72 hours and cannot usually be “managed” as ich sometimes is.
Treatment options - Chloroquine phosphate is the treatment of choice for velvet, but copper also works if symptoms are caught early on. Tank transfer and hypo does not work with velvet. A freshwater dip or formalin bath is recommended before treatment begins, due to the severity of this disease; however these would only provide temporary relief and will not eradicate velvet.
Velvet (Amyloodinium):Symptoms - Because velvet can be such a fast killer, key behavioral symptoms will often prelude visible ones. A fish with velvet may breathe heavy, seek relief by swimming into the flow of a powerhead and act reclusive (velvet makes them sensitive to light).
If visible symptoms do manifest; velvet appears the same as ich, except the fish will usually be covered in “dust.” This dust may look gold colored if viewed at the right angle and under the right spectrum of light. Velvet is often misdiagnosed as ich and is the main “tank killer” in our hobby. It can wipe out all your fish in less than 72 hours and cannot usually be “managed” as ich sometimes is.
Treatment options - Chloroquine phosphate is the treatment of choice for velvet, but copper also works if symptoms are caught early on. Tank transfer and hypo does not work with velvet. A freshwater dip or formalin bath is recommended before treatment begins, due to the severity of this disease; however these would only provide temporary relief and will not eradicate velvet.
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Coraljunkie
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Thanks for your help
sirrealism
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Man I am sorry coraljunkie. That sucks. Hey mike does velvet bother clams?
Coraljunkie
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Thanks, I'm just gonna treat all of my fish for everything over the course of a month or so and keep the display tank fallow until 7 June. Hopefully whatever it is will die off in the display by that time because if I put my fish back and they start getting sick and dieing off I'm just gonna shut the tank down. A tank without fish is pointless to me.
It's quite possible the fish has both. Many clowns being sold today are in incredibly poor shape.
Coraljunkie
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If it is brook. How can I get that out of my display tank?
Coraljunkie
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Whoops nvm, I had the time to read through the link Mike gave me, thanks again everyone.