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FAQs about the Diseases of Clownfishes: Amyloodinium/Velvet
Related FAQs: Clownfish Disease 1,
Diseases of Clownfishes 2, Diseases
of Clownfishes 3, Clownfish Disease 4, Clownfish
Disease 5, Clownfish Disease 6, Clownfish
Disease 7, Clownfish Disease 8,
Clownfish Disease 9,
Clownfish Disease 10, Clownfish
Disease 11, Clownfish Disease 12,
Clownfish Disease 13,
Clownfish Disease 14,
Clownfish Disease 15, & FAQs on Clownfish
Disease By: Environmental Stress,
Nutrition,
Social/Behavioral/Territoriality,
Trauma/Mechanical Injury, & Pathogens: Lymphocystis,
Infectious Disease (Bacteria, Fungi...), Protozoans:
Cryptocaryon/Ich,
Brooklynella (see article below), & Mysteries/Anomalous Losses,
Cure, Success Stories, &
Clownfishes in General,
Clownfish Identification,
Clownfish Selection, Clownfish
Compatibility, Clownfish Behavior, Clownfish Systems, Clownfish
Feeding, Clownfishes
and Anemones, Breeding
Clowns
Related Articles: Clownfish Disease,
Brooklynellosis, Clownfishes,
Maroon Clowns, Marine
Disease,
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Diffuse fine spotting, rapid shallow breathing,
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Clown Disease & Treatment: Oodinium
Hello Anthony!
<cheers Thanassis>
Summer holidays are over and here I come with my first problem:
My mail Ocellaris has Oodinium, while the female shows no signs yet.
<this is very dangerous with clowns... fast progressing>
The clown does not get close to the cleaner shrimp, so it can not clean him from
the parasites. I am thinking of giving a FW dip with Methylene blue to the clown
and then move him to my quarantine tank, where I will move the cleaner shrimp as
well. Is it a good idea?
<yes... very good. You may medicate with formalin too>
I am also feeding food soaked in liquid garlic.
<very nice>
Any other actions I could take?
<this is exactly what Id do... no worries. Keep in QT for at least 4 weeks...
and do as many small water changes as possible by siphoning (parasites) from the
bottom of the bare glass aquarium. DO check out the excellent articles on these
parasites by Steven Pro on reefkeeping.com magazine>
Thanks as always, Thanassis
<by the way my friend... I will be relatively close to you later this year: I'm
giving a presentation in Milan Italy in November for GAEM. (also in Germany in
December). Perhaps we can take a slow boat to visit each other <G>. Ha! best
regards, Anthony>
Help confirming fish disease.
Dear WWM Crew,
My wife and I recently received an order from a mail order company containing a few corals and a pair of Percula clowns. We placed them in their own 10 gallon tank to "wait and see". Well our luck would have it (mostly bad) that one of the clowns broke out with something I believe may be marine velvet yesterday and is now totally covered with a white film, it's dorsal fins are clamped down against its body, and it's swimming, although active, appears odd.
<Does look like Velvet, Amyloodiniumiasis>
Its Percula partner now also has a small patch of this film on one of its pectoral fins but otherwise appears normal. I'm enclosing a picture in the hopes that you can help identify the disease. I am planning to quarantine these two fish apart from the corals and begin with freshwater dips and lower the SG in their holding vessel as well as upping the temperature a bit to the range of 80 degrees. Please let me know what you think of my plan of action. As always, your opinions are highly regarded and appreciated.
Sincerely,
Mike Frazer
Certified Percula Killer.
<This is also very likely a wild-collected specimen... Not nearly as tough as the captive-produced ones... Quite often have real troubles with cumulative stress, epizootic diseases... and really should only be attempted by folks who have a "special need/desire" (e.g. to culture, harden them for aquaculture, set-up biotopic exhibits...). Do read through WetWebMedia.com re marine diseases, treatments... and Clownfishes. Bob Fenner> |
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Sick Clown, Brooklynella
now after further observation, I've concluded that my poor clown's got Brooklynella.
in which case what's your preferred treatment - dips, copper, other???
from my reading I understand that the grim reaper could come very fast.
<Possibly but doubtful that this is Brooklynella... Please use the search tool on the bottom of our homepage: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/
with the genus name... and read about this disease and its hosts, mainly the Clownfishes. Bob Fenner> |
Tomato Clown woes
Good morning,
I purchased a 3-4" Tomato Clown from my LFS about a week ago. My LFS store held her (I assume, based on size) for me 10 days previous to that, and I checked her several times during that period.
<That is a good procedure, but not a replacement for a stay in a proper quarantine tank.>
She looked healthy and ate voraciously when I took her home. After adding her to my 75 gallon, she seemed healthy, active, and ate well (Omega One flakes and Ocean Nutrition Formula One frozen). However, about 3-4 days ago I noticed a few patches of a white/gray sheen on her skin/scales. It was only noticeable when viewed from certain angles. She continued to eat well and remained active. I watched her carefully for the next day, and the sheen turned into "rough" looking scales, with a white-ish color. Thinking that it might be water quality issues (although all tests looked good: 0 NH4, 0 NO2, 0-2 NO3, pH
8.2, salinity 1.0215, Alk 3.2 meq, Ca 350), I did a 20% water change. It was nearing time for a scheduled change anyway. Unfortunately, things have gotten worse. This morning she seemed interested in food, but just mouthed it and spit it out, and the white/rough patches look larger. She also seems less active and is holding her fins semi-closed. After reading through your FAQs, I was immediately drawn to Brooklynella, but most accounts of that suggest that the fish would have been dead by now.
<It is a fast progressing disease.>
Are they any good web photos of a Brooklynella infection?
<You maybe able to find a picture somewhere, but by that time it maybe too late. Your description definitely seems parasitic in nature, either Brooklynella or
Amyloodinium. Both can be effectively treated with Formalin baths and removal to a
separate quarantine/hospital tank. Please search through our website, www.WetWebMedia.com for more details on the suggested treatment.>
I'd appreciate your diagnoses and treatment advice.
Thanks very much, John H.
<You are welcome. -Steven Pro>
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