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I purchased a pair of mated ORA clowns 2/6/18. They were immediately placed in my 10 gallon qt. They started eating the second day they were in there(I don't try to feed on the first day). One of the clowns always seemed more aggressively eating. The other clown just didn't seem to be a typical clownfish, ie eat anything and everything. I started to notice that this clownfish had white string like poo. So after around the 7th day in qt I decided to treat the tank with API General Cure. At this time both clownfish were eating well/acting normal/fine breathing and I was loading the frozen food with vitachem/selcon/viatality. After 24hrs I notice the clownfish is having labored, rapid breathing. 48 hrs later same symptoms but no interest in eating plus isn't swimming much, just laying in corner. At this point the 48hrs of API is up so I do a water change(dropping the salinity down to 1.016) and run carbon. Next 24 hrs clownfish still isn't getting any better, all symptoms are the same. No signs of ich/velvet on body, no liaisons/etc. Today I go with a freshwater dip. Clownfish makes it through dip, back into qt. It's been 6hrs since freshwater dip and no signs of any improvement. I'm at a loss because I don't see any behavior/etc that guides me on what to treat for. All this time the other clownfish is fine, breathing normal/eating/etc.
Kicking around thoughts of maybe treating with prazipro, or KickIch or paraguard(even though I don't think its a external parasite). Anybody with any thoughts of a treatment? Thank you! Rich
I purchased a pair of mated ORA clowns 2/6/18. They were immediately placed in my 10 gallon qt. They started eating the second day they were in there(I don't try to feed on the first day). One of the clowns always seemed more aggressively eating. The other clown just didn't seem to be a typical clownfish, ie eat anything and everything. I started to notice that this clownfish had white string like poo. So after around the 7th day in qt I decided to treat the tank with API General Cure. At this time both clownfish were eating well/acting normal/fine breathing and I was loading the frozen food with vitachem/selcon/viatality. After 24hrs I notice the clownfish is having labored, rapid breathing. 48 hrs later same symptoms but no interest in eating plus isn't swimming much, just laying in corner. At this point the 48hrs of API is up so I do a water change(dropping the salinity down to 1.016) and run carbon. Next 24 hrs clownfish still isn't getting any better, all symptoms are the same. No signs of ich/velvet on body, no liaisons/etc. Today I go with a freshwater dip. Clownfish makes it through dip, back into qt. It's been 6hrs since freshwater dip and no signs of any improvement. I'm at a loss because I don't see any behavior/etc that guides me on what to treat for. All this time the other clownfish is fine, breathing normal/eating/etc.
Kicking around thoughts of maybe treating with prazipro, or KickIch or paraguard(even though I don't think its a external parasite). Anybody with any thoughts of a treatment? Thank you! Rich