This appears to be an outbreak of marine ich. Fish will have to be quarantined and treated with copper based medication - Chelated form, not ionic copper. For Australia, best medication would be Copper Power or if none, Aquasonic Oodinex but be careful with oodinex. For copperPower, treat at therapeutic level 2.0-2.25 For a FULL 30 days (do not interrupt this 30 day period) monitored by a reliable Copper Test kit such as Hanna Brand- No API brand. Also monitor Ammonia levels while in quarantine with a reliable test kit and add aeration during treatment using an air stone.Came home and found that my clownfish has dots on his head and white specks on his body, I can’t figure out if it is velvet or brooknella. Can someone also please recommend treatment for the fish?
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Now that I see other fish, it looks more like secondary bacterial lesions associated with brook. Im surprised the other clown has not been affected. 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. For secondary bacterial lesions, you can as you asked use formalin. Is it aquasonic formalin you have? If so, it formalin based and will work. Typical treatment is
Thank you very much, there is a pet store near me which sells aquasonic formalin so I will be going to get that and start treatment. I have just set up a quarantine tank and have been letting the heater run for the past couple hours; will also be getting some microbacter7 or dr Time since the tank isn’t cycled.
Yes as you dont want to risk overdose. Follow package directions precisely
I am familiar with velvet but what is Brook?Came home and found that my clownfish has dots on his head and white specks on his body, I can’t figure out if it is velvet or brooknella. Can someone also please recommend treatment for the fish?
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I thought I saw that you had sourced formalin? That will work better than metronidazole for this issue. I can help you with dosing if you tell me the concentration of the formalin that you have.
Velvet
velvet is a dinoflagellate and Brooklynella is a ciliate. Velvet causes rapid breathing followed by death in a few days, seen in most fish species. Brook usually affects wild clownfish, but can spread to other species. Causes cloudy skin with peeling mucus, rapid breathing and death within a week or so.
Sorry for the confusion, I just did a 60 minute bath at 0.66ml per gallon of formalin a couple hours ago, do I just dose formalin again directly to the qt system or do another bath in a couple days?
The dip you gave was 175 ppm. That good, but putting the fish back into the same tank allows them to get reinfected. You can also dose formalin as a static bath. Do you have full formalin? That is labeled as 37% formaldehyde in water. If you have that, a static bath is 25 ppm daily. The calculation is the net volume of tank water, in US gallons, multiplied by 25 and divided by 264. That works out to be 0.95 ml per ten gallons. Always double check your formalin calculations and follow all safety precautions when using it.
