Issue with Ocellaris Clown

Krazyandy

Krazyandy

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The tank is a 20g reef. The inhabitants are 2 ocellaris clowns and a purple fire fish. I have a problem going on with one of my clowns, Ive had them for a little over 3 weeks. One of the clowns slime coat is doing some weird thing. It start about the size of a dime and now it is peeling back around from where it started. It hasn't affected its eating, swimming, and seems just as active as the day I bought it. I tried looking into this on google and anything I could find people associated slime coat problems with brooklynella. Its gill movements are normal and has not been lethargic and this has been going on for about 4 days now. All of the other fish in the tank are perfectly fine even the other clown. The clowns have been getting a little aggressive at each other, could that have done this just by nipping at each other? Could a coral have stung it to do this? this clown keeps trying to host my hammer coral and my horn coral. If its not that could the heater have done this? love to hear what others think. Ill post tank parameters as soon as I can.

(The affected area is the back lower portion only on one side of the larger clown)

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I don't know what it is but the fact that it's acting normal is good. The only thing I think you can do is sit and wait to see if it heals itself or gets worse.
 
Looks like the beginnings of Brooklynella to me but it's difficult to tell and after 4 days with visible brook it would be dead.
 
That's what is making me clueless because it should be dead by now if it had it and that all the other fish show no signs of this and all are physically healthy looking. Could the heater caused this or a coral sting?
 
Usually coral stings show up as black spots on clownfish. They also generally increase slime coat when getting stung by coral (and anemones). It looks like something white is sticking out of the clown in that spot. Is it there or is they just the photo?
 
That would be it's slime coat, it's just peeling off like if you have bad sunburn. He is swimming in the current a little but i don't know if that's due to breathing issues or trying to get this stuff off
 
He seems to be getting worse, would a freshwater dip or a saltwater bath in bifuran plus help this issue?
 
If it's brook the only thing that will help is meth blue and honestly once they show signs, 99.99999% of the time it's too late. If you really want to try something a dip on paraguard might be worth it since it covers a wide spectrum of illnesses, otherwise you're just shooting in the dark.
 
So an update on the clown, he is still alive and eating. He seems to be in decent health, but the slime coat isn't an issue anymore. Last night I gave him a 40 minute bath in bifuran plus. Now in that area where slime coat originally started coming off, it seems to be blood underneath his scales? Any ideas? I'll post a picture as soon as possible
 
Whoa never seen that before is he hosting something . Brooks definitly looks like bad sun burn peeling but yea would probably he dead already. If something is irritating skin fish will produce heavier slime coat to help protect them. Most time its black blotches but not all the time . Good luck hope he recovers fully
 
He is currently in another bath of bifuran plus to help with a bacterial infection if it's that. On hand I have prazipro, pimafix, and melafix. Should I put any of that you guys think in the display to help him out? The display is a 20 reef with sps and Lps and I DONT have a quarantine tank set up.
 
madjoe said:
Whoa never seen that before is he hosting something . Brooks definitly looks like bad sun burn peeling but yea would probably he dead already. If something is irritating skin fish will produce heavier slime coat to help protect them. Most time its black blotches but not all the time . Good luck hope he recovers fully
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He sometime goes into my hammer coral but other than that no
 
Krazyandy said:
He is currently in another bath of bifuran plus to help with a bacterial infection if it's that. On hand I have prazipro, pimafix, and melafix. Should I put any of that you guys think in the display to help him out? The display is a 20 reef with sps and Lps and I DONT have a quarantine tank set up.
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I have used melifix in reef with no issues besides skimmer going nuts. Hard to say what to treat with not knowing what caused it melifix wouldnt hurt imo maybe someone else can chime in . Im hopeing he just rubbed and cut on something and not a parasite or something
 
madjoe said:
I have used melifix in reef with no issues besides skimmer going nuts. Hard to say what to treat with not knowing what caused it melifix wouldnt hurt imo maybe someone else can chime in . Im hopeing he just rubbed and cut on something and not a parasite or something
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I'll try dosing some melafix tonight and see how it affects him tomorrow. Did you follow the instructions or use a smaller dose that instructed?
 
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