Does this Clown have Brooklynella? Now what?

[SumpinFishy]

I'm a little worried. I can't tell for 10o% but think my clown had brooklynella. Wife says she noticed Saturday busy weekend and so she points it out to me last night. Sunday 10pm not much I can do.
I cycled up my qt and have it running and warming and making sure it is as close to optimal (ph and alk are low 7.2ph, 7.4alk) need to figure out what's next, so forgive me i have 20 questions. FORMALIN... where can you even get this. I see are version on Amazon but look like it's for preserving dead stuff. I try to find fish care but anything that comes up does not have fornalin. BRS search brings up Seachem Paraguard.
so this AM I took photos, under display lighting there is what appears to be white dust on him. Under normal light there but not as easy to see. If it started Saturday, shouldn't he be in really bad shape by now?
So what would you do? Proactively QT and treat? With what? I read article about move all fish to QT and make DT fishless Oxford 6 weeks.. ugh, how could I even catch them all? Without draining and removing rock.. I could never get the goby without doing this.
Should I just have QT ready if clown gets bad move him? Then treat, with what? Should I start adding something to the whole DT?
Do you ever just add Paragaurd once in a while as preventative?
100 gallon and 30 gallon sump, i just have nightmares of having to treat the tank and due 30-50% water changes all week running my RODI 24/7 and churning through 100s of gallons and salt... lots of salt...
The thought is making my head spin.
So looking for advice. Thank you all

sorry tried to get good photos, kinda hard to see.
and just as a side note. I did a sump clean Friday and did stir up some dust made the tank and hint cloudy for an hour or so... but if it was dust from that I would think 3 days later it wouldn't be on him.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I'm a little worried. I can't tell for 10o% but think my clown had brooklynella. Wife says she noticed Saturday busy weekend and so she points it out to me last night. Sunday 10pm not much I can do.
I cycled up my qt and have it running and warming and making sure it is as close to optimal (ph and alk are low 7.2ph, 7.4alk) need to figure out what's next, so forgive me i have 20 questions. FORMALIN... where can you even get this. I see are version on Amazon but look like it's for preserving dead stuff. I try to find fish care but anything that comes up does not have fornalin. BRS search brings up Seachem Paraguard.
so this AM I took photos, under display lighting there is what appears to be white dust on him. Under normal light there but not as easy to see. If it started Saturday, shouldn't he be in really bad shape by now?
So what would you do? Proactively QT and treat? With what? I read article about move all fish to QT and make DT fishless Oxford 6 weeks.. ugh, how could I even catch them all? Without draining and removing rock.. I could never get the goby without doing this.
Should I just have QT ready if clown gets bad move him? Then treat, with what? Should I start adding something to the whole DT?
Do you ever just add Paragaurd once in a while as preventative?
100 gallon and 30 gallon sump, i just have nightmares of having to treat the tank and due 30-50% water changes all week running my RODI 24/7 and churning through 100s of gallons and salt... lots of salt...
The thought is making my head spin.
So looking for advice. Thank you all

sorry tried to get good photos, kinda hard to see.
and just as a side note. I did a sump clean Friday and did stir up some dust made the tank and hint cloudy for an hour or so... but if it was dust from that I would think 3 days later it wouldn't be on him.

No doubt it is. The most significant sign is the amount of slime on its body which is noticeable on the fish. This mucus generally starts at the facial area as well as gills and spreads across the body producing lesions as it progresses often confused with ich and can turn into secondary bacteria. Other symptoms will be lethargic behavior, refusing to eat and heavy breathing from the mucus.
Start with a prolonged 60 minute bath of ruby rally pro then at a lower concentration in a quarantine tank. The longer the fish are exposed to the treatment, the more effective it will be at eliminating this issue.
Since a formalin solution is often not available for use, temporary relief can be achieved by giving the fish a FW bath or dip in water same temperature as display tank. Even though this treatment will not cure the disease, it can help to remove some of the parasites, as well as reduce the amount of mucus in the gills to assist with respiration problems.
Treatment is best done in a QT tank using either quick cure (more effective but now harder to find) or Ruby Rally Pro. Ruby takes a little longer and initial treatment generally takes 2-3 days to really start going to work.
With the advanced stage of this- I recommend immediate quarantine of all inhabitants and leaving display without fish for 4-6 weeks.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

It does look like it could be Brooklynella, but a clear video helps us diagnose that (hosting to Youtube is one way to share videos).

 

[SumpinFishy]

Thanks. Yep, Did not get to the LFS in time and back, he passed. Hate that. Wasn't an expensive Clown, but hate losing one. Keeping QT running and have treatment. Watching the rest. Started adding Metroplex and Focus to feedings. Fingers crossed its a singular incident

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Thanks. Yep, Did not get to the LFS in time and back, he passed. Hate that. Wasn't an expensive Clown, but hate losing one. Keeping QT running and have treatment. Watching the rest. Started adding Metroplex and Focus to feedings. Fingers crossed its a singular incident

Sorry to hear.

I’m not sure where you heard to mix focus and metro - but that doesn’t work against brooklynella AND you need to calculate the proper dose at 1% metro in the food. Too much metro is bitter and the fish won’t eat it. Oral Metro is really only effective against internal flagellates.