White dots keep appearing on clownfish

[Brad Coughlan]

I can't identify what this is. They are not on any of my other fish (3 others) but I can remember back around 4 months ago my other clown having these, this seems to now be a frequent appearance on this other clownfish. The amount of dots do seem to change, although it is only visible on this current clownfish. The 2 clownfish both host hammer and frogspawn corals, could it be stings?

They are on the other side of the fish as well

 

[vetteguy53081]

I can't identify what this is. They are not on any of my other fish (3 others) but I can remember back around 4 months ago my other clown having these, this seems to now be a frequent appearance on this other clownfish. The amount of dots do seem to change, although it is only visible on this current clownfish. The 2 clownfish both host hammer and frogspawn corals, could it be stings?

They are on the other side of the fish as well

I dont believe this is ich but rather a secondary bacterial infection associated with brooklynella as clown is showing also slight discoloration. Posting a video under white light intensity may help confirm. With brook, the most significant sign is the amount of slime on its body which is noticeable on the fish. 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 and weird swim pattern..
Typical treatment is a formalin which is hard to find, so start with a prolonged 60 minute bath of ruby rally pro then at a lower concentration in a quarantine tank. The longer the fish are exposed to the treatment, the more effective it will be at eliminating this issue.
Since a formalin solution is often not available for 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.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

I dont believe this is ich but rather a secondary bacterial infection associated with brooklynella as clown is showing also slight discoloration. Posting a video under white light intensity may help confirm. With brook, the most significant sign is the amount of slime on its body which is noticeable on the fish. 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 and weird swim pattern..
Typical treatment is a formalin which is hard to find, so start with a prolonged 60 minute bath of ruby rally pro then at a lower concentration in a quarantine tank. The longer the fish are exposed to the treatment, the more effective it will be at eliminating this issue.
Since a formalin solution is often not available for 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.

Didn't expect brook, wouldn't that spread more rapidly than this?

Last time I added anything wet into the tank (2 sps frags) was 10 days ago

 

[Jay Hemdal]

I can't identify what this is. They are not on any of my other fish (3 others) but I can remember back around 4 months ago my other clown having these, this seems to now be a frequent appearance on this other clownfish. The amount of dots do seem to change, although it is only visible on this current clownfish. The 2 clownfish both host hammer and frogspawn corals, could it be stings?

They are on the other side of the fish as well

It looks like this could be an injury....see how the issue seems linear? Could just be a scrape with mucus production. That could become infected with bacteria, and that would require treatment with antibiotics in a treatment tank, but unless you see it growing in size, or unless you see some other symptoms develop (rapid breathing, changes in behavior) I might just wait to see how it develops.....

 

[Brad Coughlan]

It looks like this could be an injury....see how the issue seems linear? Could just be a scrape with mucus production. That could become infected with bacteria, and that would require treatment with antibiotics in a treatment tank, but unless you see it growing in size, or unless you see some other symptoms develop (rapid breathing, changes in behavior) I might just wait to see how it develops.....

Could it be reactions from swimmimg in corals?

the other clownfish had this same problem months ago, it doesn't really happen much now, but now with the other one

I'll see if they are still visible later today

 

[Brad Coughlan]

It looks like this could be an injury....see how the issue seems linear? Could just be a scrape with mucus production. That could become infected with bacteria, and that would require treatment with antibiotics in a treatment tank, but unless you see it growing in size, or unless you see some other symptoms develop (rapid breathing, changes in behavior) I might just wait to see how it develops.....

They are still visible on the clownfish. Nothing on any other fish. So not ich, which I am happy about, maybe it has something to do with the clowns being hosted by 2 hammer/frogspawn corals?

 

[Baby Damsel 219]

these showed up on my clown fish near the mouth, Took about a week for them to go away and then showed up on the top of the fins Fed him high quality food and he got better

 

[Brad Coughlan]

these showed up on my clown fish near the mouth, Took about a week for them to go away and then showed up on the top of the fins Fed him high quality food and he got better

Thanks for the info

I do sometimes feed live whiteworms, but I added more soil to the whiteworm culture and I am waiting for them to come back out so I can feed them more.

What do you feed/suggest feeding?

 

[Raazka]

Thanks for the info

I do sometimes feed live whiteworms, but I added more soil to the whiteworm culture and I am waiting for them to come back out so I can feed them more.

What do you feed/suggest feeding?

Omega-enriched brine shrimp, krill/mysis, High quality marine flakes and pellets and soft pellets always worked great for my clowns. The more you vary the better.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

Omega-enriched brine shrimp, krill/mysis, High quality marine flakes and pellets and soft pellets always worked great for my clowns. The more you vary the better.

Would you recommend soaking food in some sort of supplement, if so which ones?

 

[Raazka]

Would you recommend soaking food in some sort of supplement, if so which ones?

I personally use Vita-Chem marine by Boyd Entreprise, Seachem Vitality and other supplements from Brightwell aquatics are also very good. Using multiple kinds is also recommended.

 

[blecki]

Do you have vermetid snails? I get to play the 'disease or injury or just dirty' game every day thanks to those things, and honestly, your pictures look like they could just be dirty.

 

[Brad Coughlan]

Do you have vermetid snails? I get to play the 'disease or injury or just dirty' game every day thanks to those things, and honestly, your pictures look like they could just be dirty.

I do indeed have vermetid snails

 

[Brad Coughlan]

I personally use Vita-Chem marine by Boyd Entreprise, Seachem Vitality and other supplements from Brightwell aquatics are also very good. Using multiple kinds is also recommended.

Thanks!