Current Quarantine Protocol

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

@Jay Hemdal @winxp_man hello just an update
I still haven't seen the clown eat, he refuses pellets flakes or frozen. I have been loading his tank with baby brine shrimp live but not sure if hes eating those.
The last time I saw him eat was probably 16 days ago in my DT. He's been in quarantine for 9 days now with 4 rounds of metro and 2 round of prazi but still refusing to eat. He hasn't pooped anything at all. Swimming around though a tiny but lazy but he'll have random twitches from time to time.
Honestly im not sure whats wrong anymore im thinking I just move him back to my DT tomorrow and see how he does there, maybe he'll be happier with the other paired clownfish? What are your guys thoughts? Below video from today

I would NOT move the fish back to the DT. It's stiff body swimming tells me that it has some active disease, possibly Brooklynella, but more likely coccidia (which coincides with it not eating). The latter is not treatable though....

You might consider euthanasia, given the length of time it has gone without food - sorry!

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-euthanasia.979258/

 

[winxp_man]

I would NOT move the fish back to the DT. It's stiff body swimming tells me that it has some active disease, possibly Brooklynella, but more likely coccidia (which coincides with it not eating). The latter is not treatable though....

You might consider euthanasia, given the length of time it has gone without food - sorry!

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/fish-euthanasia.979258/

Jay I don’t think it’s anything brook related. The two of the three maroons have tried to help all did this sadly and they never had a record of brook. The third one I thought was Brook, being it had slim coming off of it. BUT turned out to not be Brook under the microscope. The slim was odd, long strings, but the fishes body was okay not that brook powder. I decided to still do 2-3 Ruby rally pro dips with her at 3ml per gal. She then got over that, and was still not eating, I was going to start tube feeding, but decided to give her one last try with a different life food type. When she started her no eating mode, she ended up going after brine shrimp, then stopped eating even brine. So after the baths, I tried black worms. And that slowly did the trick.

If black worms, or brine don’t work, the fish is sadly a goner at this point. And as you said euthanasia is the best way.

Clove with a few drops to start. The fish slowly goes to sleep. Keep adding drops I until it’s gone for good. Once there is a good concentration give it 15-20 mintues and you can bury the fish.