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09-30-2007, 05:32 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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   |  Clownfish: Not sure what this is
I woke up this morning to find that a small little , not sure what it is, attached to my clown. It is about 1/4" in size, flat, and clear. I am not sure what it is and how I can get rid of it. Help!! _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
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09-30-2007, 05:35 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 44
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Can you get a picture of it for better observation? _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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09-30-2007, 05:40 AM
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#3 (permalink)
| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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I am trying to get one...I am really upset right now...I will try to get one right now. | |
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09-30-2007, 06:09 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Coral Reefer it is no longer there...I could not get a good picture... | |
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09-30-2007, 07:24 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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A fish louse it what it sounds like to me.. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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09-30-2007, 07:31 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Hey Tangster, thanks...It does not look as if the skin was punctured, i think the "pest" was hitchiking but not attached. What, if anything, should I do? | |
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09-30-2007, 10:39 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Wethersfield, CT Age: 38
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Well with out seeing it ,not positive as to what you have ? It could have been Louse or hookworm or a nematode even a leech and or a host of other parasite.. But it may have dropped of to settle to the bottom to start laying eggs ? Not trying to alarm you but if you could get a photo so it could be seen as to what it is or was for sure to make certain as to how and deal with any of the pest I mentioned above A good treatment for 90% of these type parasites and their eggs is to some of the larger fish and light infestations being one or maybe 3 or 4 then the lice can be picked off with a pair of forceps. Other cases can best be treated with a 10 to 30 minute bath in 10 mg per quart of tank water of potassium permanganate. Or treat the whole tank with 2 mg per liter, but this method is messy and dyes the water But add some carbon and it will pull the yellow looking dye out along with all the DOC's the permangante coagulated .. | |
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09-30-2007, 10:42 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Hey Baxter I posted the above not the boss lady (: I did not realize that she had signed since I had (: | |
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09-30-2007, 11:18 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Cool, thanks Tangster...I certainly hope that it is not worst case scenario... | |
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09-30-2007, 02:34 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
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I treat our tank every so often with a few ozs of permanganate anyway it just cleans it up a tad found it also will help knock out montipora eating pest also. Its safe to use just don't go overboard with it also its great to burn out different alga's .. Like Byropsis | |
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