Please help!

Domi · 06/27/2017, 03:51 PM

I have got two clowns last week and one of them is doing fine eating the other one appears to be loosing scales and kind of dizzy but still eating. Can you tell me what it is? I have googled a lot and he doesn't have any fungus on him or anything that could appear as Brooklynella. Please help me, I don't want to loose him. Thanks

j.falk · 06/27/2017, 05:38 PM

It looks like it could be lateral line disease.

j.falk · 06/27/2017, 05:39 PM

Domi · 06/27/2017, 05:44 PM

Thanks! Any suggestions how to treat it quickly enough so he doesn't die?

Stolireef · 06/27/2017, 05:51 PM

We need much more information. Give us your tank size, water parameters, how old is tank?

Domi · 06/27/2017, 06:13 PM

25gl, and the tank is functioning over the month now. Ammonia 0 nitrites a bit higher 2.0, but it was lover before I have added the fish.

Stolireef · 06/27/2017, 06:22 PM

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your tank is way way way too small for the Tang. That fish will grow to be over a foot long. Your tank is also way to young for anything but a small fish or two. If you are reading any nitrites, the cycle hasn't completed or it has restarted due to the heavy fish load. Remove the tang and the clown. Add a dead supermarket shrimp and wait until your tank starts showing ammonia. Remove the now stinky decaying dead shrimp, start reading the stickies at the top of this forum and don't do anything other than that for a month. Then, you can add one or two small fish.

Domi · 06/27/2017, 06:26 PM

I do not own the tang it is just a picture that j.falk posted as a sample ... I have two clowns in and nothing else. One of them seems completely okay, swimming around happily, eating. The other one looks like the picture I posted. I don't plan to add any other fish just those two clowns for 25 gallons.

j.falk · 06/28/2017, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Domi

Thanks! Any suggestions how to treat it quickly enough so he doesn't die?

Have you tried doing a partial water change? Sometimes something as simple as that can make a big difference on how well the fish do. Especially if something is off with your water that you are unaware of.

alcimedes · 06/28/2017, 07:18 AM

Random question, but you don't have any stray voltage in the tank do you? (if you stick your finger in the water, do you feel a slight 'buzz' around it?)

Besides stray voltage there are a variety of other potential causes of lateral line disease, this link seemed helpful.

https://www.thespruce.com/head-and-l...isease-2924961

06/27/2017, 05:51 PM	#5
Stolireef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scottsdale AZ Posts: 3,180 Blog Entries: 5	We need much more information. Give us your tank size, water parameters, how old is tank? __________________ I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build. Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0.

06/27/2017, 06:22 PM	#7
Stolireef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scottsdale AZ Posts: 3,180 Blog Entries: 5	I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your tank is way way way too small for the Tang. That fish will grow to be over a foot long. Your tank is also way to young for anything but a small fish or two. If you are reading any nitrites, the cycle hasn't completed or it has restarted due to the heavy fish load. Remove the tang and the clown. Add a dead supermarket shrimp and wait until your tank starts showing ammonia. Remove the now stinky decaying dead shrimp, start reading the stickies at the top of this forum and don't do anything other than that for a month. Then, you can add one or two small fish. __________________ I want to burn twice as bright and half as long. Oh, and a full tank crash is just an excuse for a new build. Current Tank Info: 125 Rimless Leemar, Apex, Trigger 30 Elite Sump, Vertex 180i Skimmer, 2 X Gen4 Radion XR30W, BM Doser, 2xMP40WES, 2xTunze 6095, Sicce Syncra 4.0.

06/27/2017, 05:38 PM	#2
j.falk Registered Member Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 632	It looks like it could be lateral line disease.

06/27/2017, 05:39 PM	#3
j.falk Registered Member Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 632

06/27/2017, 05:44 PM	#4
Domi Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 7	Thanks! Any suggestions how to treat it quickly enough so he doesn't die?

06/27/2017, 06:13 PM	#6
Domi Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 7	25gl, and the tank is functioning over the month now. Ammonia 0 nitrites a bit higher 2.0, but it was lover before I have added the fish.

06/27/2017, 06:26 PM	#8
Domi Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2016 Posts: 7	I do not own the tang it is just a picture that j.falk posted as a sample ... I have two clowns in and nothing else. One of them seems completely okay, swimming around happily, eating. The other one looks like the picture I posted. I don't plan to add any other fish just those two clowns for 25 gallons.

06/28/2017, 07:18 AM	#10
alcimedes Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 174	Random question, but you don't have any stray voltage in the tank do you? (if you stick your finger in the water, do you feel a slight 'buzz' around it?) Besides stray voltage there are a variety of other potential causes of lateral line disease, this link seemed helpful. https://www.thespruce.com/head-and-l...isease-2924961