Sick Clown!!!help Plz!!!

[porksoda]

Well i looked in my tank today and i have a clown fish and the front of its face is like a white color and it cannot even swim anymore it can barely swim, my powerheads are just blowing it around when it gets in the current of the powerheads. Well and if you can tell me how to help my clown let me know. i have a lil 3 gallon pico. Should i put it in there? Well thanks,

Porksoda

 

[steve-s]

What tank is the clown currently in? Do not use the pico.

More detail on whitish color on the fish's face. Solid, like a splash of milk, cottony, excess mucus or something else?

How long have you have it?
How was it acclimated?
What tank mates?
Please post all test numbered results for all test kits you have?

 

[porksoda]

Well it is in my 55 gallon now and it kinda looks like a splash of milk you could say. I have had it sense last summer. It had a partner but i died like 2 days earlier.

 

[Meche]

The partner was the same type of clown fish?

Have you added anything to the tank recently? What else is in the tank? Any corals or inverts? Have you tested your water for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, kH (hardness/alkalinity), and specific gravity (salinity)? If so, what are the numbers?

Steve is really good at figuring this stuff out, but you need to give him all the details.

Good luck.

 

[steve-s]

Excellent questions/observations Meche!

Toxic water poisoning/parameters or Brooklynella could be a possibility. Too hard to nail down without more history on the fish/tank mates etc.

Was this fish or the recently deceased ever treated for anything?

 

[Salty D-O-G]

Toxic water poisoning/parameters or Brooklynella could be a possibility.

What r these?

Jerry

 

[Meche]

Jerry,

Check out the library section for reef fishes. Here is an article on Brooklynella I found there.

 

[steve-s]

What r these?

Jerry

Toxic water could be just about anything amiss with water quality. From a severely skewed water parameter to something potentially introduced. generally excess turbidity in the skin is high ammonia or low pH though. Unless anew tank, it's often caused by neglect, something inappropriately added to the tank or something air borne accidentally getting into the tank.

Jerry,

Check out the library section for reef fishes. Here is an article on Brooklynella I found there.

Read here instead, the treatments there are "suspect".
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/brooklynella.html
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/formalinbaths.html

 

[Salty D-O-G]

Thanks Steve and Brett, I thought it was something else. I learned about 27 years ago that a flea bomb will kill a fish quicker than anything I know. Thats why I still hate dogs and cats LOL.

Jerry