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That is a YouTube video of the sick clown. He is doing much better but still acting weird. Itching gills on bottom of tank (in video) coughing/yawning, Less appetite. Possibly red gills. I think the brine shrimp have boosted his immune system to where he is somewhat better. Previous symptoms : increased respiration rate, less active. I started prazipro today canceled hyposalinity.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMO4XaYmnc

ahg thats making me thirsty for a beer. Neat Idea. Glad to see you want small fish dont want to see the tang police blog after you.

Has anyone seen a problem with hermits eating or bothering corals? I haven't yet.

My house only needs one in the basement in summer months.

I'm suprised radiology didn't swipe that bracelet I don't trust them stinkers bunch of slow fat firemen grrrrr!!

Ok not a bad idea. That way I can try something other than hypo. Looks like he will pull through. Eating like a horse all the sudden

Here is the 8.4 stuff not sure if its safe for QT during hypo

Oh and thanks Tracy for recommending different food. He won't touch frozen brine.

The fish just ate 20-30 live brine shrimp! I'm going to diagnose him as acclimation and shipping shock along with being picky eater. I won't lie though I did dip him in formalin and it may have helped. It nearly killed him too though so no more dips I'm going to fatten him up and boost immune with live shrimp. One question can I boost ph safely with this 8.4 stuff. My ph for the quarantine tank tested 7.6 ammonia was fine. I am going through with hyposalinity and slowly lower it every day.

I had pods. Havnt seen one ever since I added six line. It's not aggressive....yet. My bristle worms hide so I have no idea if he eats them. My worms stay small so they either starve to death or something keeps em in check. I want a large bristle worm for cleanup in my sump.

That's not a sucky picture! Picture of month time!

Thanks for the offer. I might try some prazi even though its probably too late. I'm just going to pick some up at LFS.

Healthy clownfish still eating like a pig sick clown still not eating and still not as active. color seems better. also don't think it's brook now. Red spot looks much better but still there. Breathing rate more rapid than healthy fish. Ill be suprised if he is alive in the morning. I'm starting slow process of hypo salinity now. I read that hypo only cures MI so I'm just shooting in the dark at this point.

I took out a piece of rock to pick off a bubble algae and noticed a brittle star! I was so pumped and figured I would save it by placing it back in the tank and my tang swam over and gobbled it up then burped

Here is all i know on the spider. most of this you probably already know.They aren't as aggressive as in the movies lol.Afraid of people they run and only bite as a last resort (if teeth even developed enough) They are rarely fatal and identification often mistaken. My wife works in the ER almost 10 years now and has only seen one real bite despite the 100s that come in claiming they have been bit. These people usually get diagnosed with a skin cyst or herpies not saying I would want to live with them either hehe but I would kill them with a newspaper and possibly treat the outside. I would worry about overspray, setting a bucket unknowingly on the poison spray trail, a poisoned bug crawling in the tank to seek the light then dying and what treesprite said.

Whahoo neat *high five Lola!*

If a human has hole in intestines then they need major surgery then infection is likely. :(

It seems They love that food machine. This needs to be manufactured for consumers to buy.

I have two 10g QT tanks. The fish came in the mail in the same water bag so both have to be treated now and both have to be considered infected. Im not a fan of any kind of dip but if you see a poor helpless fish not eat and begin to gasp for air its time to try something other than feeding live food and taking away stressors to boost immune system. I copy and pasted this "TREATMENT METHODS: Formalin is the only treatment that is effective against this parasite and it can be used with scaleless fish also, but at half the recommended dosage. ALL fish should be placed into a quarantine tank for no less than 6 weeks, never added straight to your show tank. The same can be said of anything that is "wet"." Although I am going to research more on hyposalinity as the treatment. This blogger reccomends the formalin dip then hyposalinity to kill off the swimmers still in QT. That sounds like an aggressive way to handle the disease. It looks like hyposalinity will be an easier, but longer more healthy way for the fish to recover. It looks like he may be wrong and that hyposalinity alone can be the cure. Thanks for that cyclops idea ill give that a try!! Thanks chuck this will be my last order off saltwaterfish com their customer services is terrible

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I bought 2 clownfish and got them in the mail a few days ago. One is eating like a pig. the other ate 1-2 brine shrimp the first couple days and did not eat yesterday. When the sick one came in the mail, had good color, swimming normal but had a red spot near mouth. I attached pictures of the sick fish when first arrived. I placed them in my 10g quarantine tank immediatly and emailed fish store. Of course they emailed me back and said ORA diagnosed this as an abrasion and to do nothing. That made me angry because I knew darn well it wasnt and expressed that in my email. Today I did a bunch of research. Googled red spot lower jaw etc. Pretty much the reefcentral fourms all lead to dead fish or fourm with no ending. Luckily today I found a very good blog on brooklynella. This morning I woke up for work and checked on the clowns. Healthy fish still healthy and sick fish is starting to get slightly white or cyanotic lips with first signs of minor trouble breathing. Fish still has energy and not lethargic yet. My wife is not a fish person so I didnt trust her with doing a Formalin bath. Im at work for 24hours and need to buy time so I very kindly asked her if she felt comfortable doing a freshwater dip. She did it and stated that the red spot detached itself and sunk to the bottom of the container. This is good news. Ill keep yall updated. I will also have to treat the healthy clown and QT water for swimmers so it will be a long journey before they see their tank. Im going to follow the directions to this blog and consider any advice you all may have. Im also looking for some live food to feed fish. I live in frederick. http://www.chucksaddiction.com/brookynella.html

Love that hat! Gettin ready for peakness already?!

Keep fightin it bub! Yeehaw!

I go by the theory if it ain't broke don't fix it. Sounds like you are doing a good job!