Critter and Disease I.D.

[Seanybaggs123]

Also keep in mind, the DT is likely now contaminated with whatever the white is...brook, velvet, ich...

pulled this from another forum:


Flared Gills in baby clownfish "True Percs"
I have been reading several different forums from some very old post and they have many different reasoning’s that cause flared gills.
From quality of food being fed to the baby clownfish.
Poor culling. Which I am assuming this has something to do with the rotifers.
How does a person do “Poor Culling”?
Genetic
Injury. What type of injury could cause “flared gills”?
Water quality.

The reason why I am asking this is because I have found 3 out of 15 baby clownfish “True Perc” that I just put up for sale from my one and only batch that has made it so far. I still have eighteen babies that are still a little too small to be put up for sale. I am waiting for them to get at least ¾” to 1” before I will sale them.
They were born back in June - 2013.

Isn’t there a medication for Flared Gills?

Gosh I hope that's all it is...

I can't be 100 percent certain it wasn't microbubbles (no bubble trap in sump) or sand (where he slept). Either way, going to leave the tank as is (hopefully with the 2 fish I have) for at least 60 days just in case.

I guess for now I should maintain pristine water quality, test, and observe the fish until something new develops?

 

[Brian Kennedy]

With a fish host, the parasite cycle will not break. Check out the disease forums. They are very well organized.

 

[Brian Kennedy]

Microbubbles are not the cause.

 

[Seanybaggs123]

Microbubbles are not the cause.

I just meant that it could have been microbubbles resting on the fish and not white spots