Sick clown fish and hippo tang

[FishMama15]

Anyone have any ideas?

the tang has been hiding for weeks… I saw her laying on her side in the tank a few days ago and put her in a Qt tank with a clown who was also acting sick and was missing part of her tail. No other fish are affected in my 125 mixed reef. And there are a lot of others. I’ve recently lost a Midas blenny for no reason I could see. Also another clown fish. And an Algae blenny all mysteriously disappeared.
None of my fish have ever been QT’ed. the last time I added a fish was over 30 days ago.

0 ammonia
0 nitrite
10 nitrate
9.2 alk
464 calc
1375 mag

The two fish are in a QT tank that was treated with prazipro 3 days ago. I did a 30% water change today and haven’t added anymore prazipro yet.

Any ideas please?

 

[vetteguy53081]

The clown seems to have secondary bacterial lesions associated with brooklynella which often affects wild caught clowns. Other symptoms will be lethargic behavior, refusing to eat and heavy breathing from the mucus.
Typical treatment is a formalin solution is mixed with in a separate container with either fresh or saltwater. Start with a quick dip in the formalin at a higher concentration then performing treatment in a prolonged bath of formalin base at a lower concentration in a quarantine tank. The longer the fish are exposed to the formalin treatment the more effective it will be at eliminating this issue.
If a formalin solution is not available for immediate 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.
A quarantine system if you dont have one can be as simple as a starter tank kit from walmart which has most of the essentials

 

[Uncle99]

Consider a potential ICK infection.
Close up, I see some “marks” but may just be on the glass.
The tang increases that potential. Other fish dying is another potential sign.
If he’s listful, slow, rapid respiration and not much hungry, maybe hypo them at 1.009.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

Well, I don’t see Brooklynella. I do see one spot, but if that is ich, it isn’t enough of an infection to make the fish act this sick.

Losing the tang and the Midas are wild cards, could be related, but perhaps not.

The other clown looks pretty good, but this one is thin, breathing fast and I saw mucus feces in the first video. To me, that means a systemic internal infection, super difficult to treat….could be bacterial or protozoal.

Jay

 

[FishMama15]

I don’t think it’s brooklynella either as the other clown doesn’t have anything going on and neither do any of the other fish. It’s been over a week since I first found the clown having issues. Unfortunately with the things going on I haven’t been able to work on the fish until now.

 

[FishMama15]

Consider a potential ICK infection.
Close up, I see some “marks” but may just be on the glass.
The tang increases that potential. Other fish dying is another potential sign.
If he’s listful, slow, rapid respiration and not much hungry, maybe hypo them at 1.009.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the hippo now has ich on top of water was originally happening because her immune system has been weakened. But none of the other fish do. Not even the clown.