jskidds2294
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Upon getting the clownfish we treated with PraziPro for 1 week and a 5-day treatment of Ich-x. The clownfish were alone in the tank so they did not need to be qt. They were eating well and showed no sign of disease.
Upon receiving the tang we did a freshwater dip, a 1 month qt separate from the clownfish, and 2 weeks PraziPro treatment. She was eating minorly but not much. The main tank started to have a lot algae so I figured moving the tang to that tank to let it naturally graze would increase its natural grazing habits. Since it did not show any signs of any outward parasites since doing the freshwater dip I figured it would have no problem since it was also treated twice for internal parasites.
1 Week after adding the tang to the tank the tang, while it did start eating a bit more, randomly died after showing no sign of illness at all. After it died half of its body turned grey and I assumed that was from the fan it got sucked onto after it died. The next day both of my clownfish were on the substrate heavily breathing and barely swimming. I proceeded to do a 50% water change even though there was no ammonia readable in the tank. The larger, I'm assuming female clownfish, proceeded to die before I was able to help it. It had no sign of injury or parasites externally on its body and its body was not grey. All of its fins were intact and its eyes were not clouded over. It showed no sign of not eating before this and had no white feces. The other clown while it was heavily breathing and not swimming lived and we took it out of the tank and added it to a qt tank after giving it a dip in 37% formalin for 30 minutes. We then added the recommend aquarium dosing of 37% formalin to the qt tank and added the clownfish. Now the clownfish is swimming along the bottom very slowly and still showing signs of, not as bad, but relatively heavy breathing. It has no signs of any external parasites or bacterial infections, its eyes are completely unclouded but it is not eating at all therefore we cannot check if it has white feces. It is not showing signs of stress like hiding in corners or anything like that.
Does anyone know what is wrong with it? We researched Brooklynella and while it doesn't have slopping skin it is the only thing that we were able to find that fit the bill even partially and that's why we treated with formalin. The reason I didn't post a picture of the clown is because it has nothing out of the norm externally.
These are the results for the tank where this happened in -
Ammonia showing 0 on liquid test.
Nitrite is 0.1 on liquid test.
Nitrate is in between 5 and 10 on liquid test.
This was the fluval liquid test kit. Nitrate is in between the lowest to 2nd lowest and the rest are all the lowest.
Salinity is 1.024.
Upon receiving the tang we did a freshwater dip, a 1 month qt separate from the clownfish, and 2 weeks PraziPro treatment. She was eating minorly but not much. The main tank started to have a lot algae so I figured moving the tang to that tank to let it naturally graze would increase its natural grazing habits. Since it did not show any signs of any outward parasites since doing the freshwater dip I figured it would have no problem since it was also treated twice for internal parasites.
1 Week after adding the tang to the tank the tang, while it did start eating a bit more, randomly died after showing no sign of illness at all. After it died half of its body turned grey and I assumed that was from the fan it got sucked onto after it died. The next day both of my clownfish were on the substrate heavily breathing and barely swimming. I proceeded to do a 50% water change even though there was no ammonia readable in the tank. The larger, I'm assuming female clownfish, proceeded to die before I was able to help it. It had no sign of injury or parasites externally on its body and its body was not grey. All of its fins were intact and its eyes were not clouded over. It showed no sign of not eating before this and had no white feces. The other clown while it was heavily breathing and not swimming lived and we took it out of the tank and added it to a qt tank after giving it a dip in 37% formalin for 30 minutes. We then added the recommend aquarium dosing of 37% formalin to the qt tank and added the clownfish. Now the clownfish is swimming along the bottom very slowly and still showing signs of, not as bad, but relatively heavy breathing. It has no signs of any external parasites or bacterial infections, its eyes are completely unclouded but it is not eating at all therefore we cannot check if it has white feces. It is not showing signs of stress like hiding in corners or anything like that.
Does anyone know what is wrong with it? We researched Brooklynella and while it doesn't have slopping skin it is the only thing that we were able to find that fit the bill even partially and that's why we treated with formalin. The reason I didn't post a picture of the clown is because it has nothing out of the norm externally.
These are the results for the tank where this happened in -
Ammonia showing 0 on liquid test.
Nitrite is 0.1 on liquid test.
Nitrate is in between 5 and 10 on liquid test.
This was the fluval liquid test kit. Nitrate is in between the lowest to 2nd lowest and the rest are all the lowest.
Salinity is 1.024.
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