HELLO! Clown Emergency Please Help

Whats alarming is his fast loss of weight, froma healthy form to a skeleton type fish, up until yesterday he was swimming well against the filter current. Just alarmingly ill looking, and today he laid curled at the bottom of the tank.

A FW dip? huh? That cleanses the fish i assume?

 

Saltwater parasites cannot survive in FW. Their tissue fills up from osmosis and the parasite bursts. This won't kill parasites that are deeply embeded in the flesh, and might not do much for internal parasites, but again; considering the circumstances, it probably couldn't hurt.

 

so just take a tank, fill it with fw, treat it with chlorine remover, and dip the fish in for a few minutes and put him back into the sw?

 

Yes that is how to do a fw dip, but I dont recomend it till you know what is wrong, if its stressed a fw dip is a death sentence. If it is an internal parasite, try some internal medication mixed with food, I forget the name, but I used it once, and it worked well.

 

Just got home, my healthy clown appears to have lost weight too. Still swimming well, but noticed a brown spot on her nose area.
My sick percula clown, got up and swam a bit when the light went on and now remains curled and panting/breathing heavily...
SHIULD I go to the pet store with a water sample and maybe buy some internal medicated food???

 

That's not a bad idea. Good luck. :-/

 

Try metronidazole, mixed with food and garlic gaurd to entice flavor,I would recomend doing this in a qt tank if available.

 

Also if you do a FW dip you should have the water the same temp as your main tank and get the PH the same.

 

I had that same problem, check to make sure your water temp is the same as it was, mine for what ever reason was to cold and he did that. also make sure all water params are in line with the way they were before the move.


just wait it out, it took mine 5 days to bounce out, I thought he was dead to!
good luck
Matt

 

Hate to bring this up...

Don't know life expectancy of clownfish...but 8 years sounds like nice long life for a little fish...Bet would be nowhere near that in wild....:-/

Stress of move may have just been more then the old guy could take...

Hope all works out.