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12/19/2014, 12:36 AM
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Protruding Gill on Snowflake Clownfish
Hello,
I just received a shipment of two snowflake clownfish on Tuesday Dec. 16th. Upon receiving them I immediately noticed during acclimation that the black and white snowflake had a very red and protruding gill hanging out from underneath the right gill flap. It is eating fine and swimming around. It does have rapid breathing even after a few days. I'm not sure if this could be due to stress of a new home. I started Seachem Paraguard after 24 hours of them being in the QT tank. I will attach a couple of pictures and hopefully someone has some clue as to what this is. Tank Info Tank is 20G Bare Bottom 1 sponge filter 2 HOB filters Has a little bit of rock Marinepure 1.5 inch spheres 1 nano Koralia power head Tank Readings Ammonia =0 Nitrites=0 Nitrates=5 Salinity= 1.024 Temp= 80.4 pH= 8.1 Tank inhabitants 1 electric blue hermit crab 1 electric orange hermit crab 1 Snowflake Clownfish orange and white 1 Snowflake Clownfish black and white ~~~~//> The one with the bad gill |
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12/19/2014, 01:14 AM
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I think that happens when they were raised (fry) and didn't have enough oxygen...besides that it will be ok.
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12/19/2014, 01:17 AM
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So... This big huge red gill will always hang outside its body? Won't that be a problem if it scrapes it on rock or fights with a tank mate who nips it? And I'm still a bit concerned about the rapid open mouth breathing.
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12/19/2014, 02:01 AM
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That looks like a gill injury of some sort.
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12/20/2014, 01:28 AM
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Will an injury like this heal?
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12/20/2014, 07:45 AM
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Your picture is not detail enough. Better picture of the gill is needed for us to tell. I know that it is hard to get a good detail picture. However, but with picture as it, it is impossible to say what the problem is.
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12/20/2014, 09:47 AM
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12/20/2014, 09:37 PM
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Hopefully this video on YouTube can show a little more detail
http://youtu.be/YXIDXwgLyJQ Both gills are very red and hanging out from underneath the full plates. |
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12/20/2014, 09:59 PM
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This is another video. About 30 seconds. You can clearly see the exposed gills and rapid breathing.
http://youtu.be/CmxQYzx0GmU |
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12/21/2014, 10:33 AM
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Can anyone see the links to my videos that I have posted? Whenever I view this thread in the forum without being logged in they aren't showing up. After I log in I can see the YouTube links....?
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12/21/2014, 12:37 PM
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I can't see the links
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12/22/2014, 07:02 AM
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I am logged in and I can't even see your post. I got email notification of your post, but when I log on I cannot see your post at all.
I see your post on this tread numbers 1,3,5 and 7. Irishdolpnin's Post is post number 8
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