PLEASE HELP Blenny dead now clown on the verge!!!

So my lawnmower blenny died about a week ago...it started off with his tail being paralyzed but he coudl still eat fine...then he started getting worse, showing other signs such as discoloration and trouble reaching food. In the end, he was very interested in food but could no longer reach it. He randomly spazzed out all over the aquarium and is head was constantly stock at about a 40 degree angle. What could this have been? I worry that my tomato clown is getting this also. He is very discolored and lethargic. It also looks like he wants food and is either to week to get it or can't open is mouth wide enough to ingest it. Can a type of worm or protazoan to this to a fish. It was super heartbreaking to see the blenny pass and I really want to save the clown. PLEASE HELP

 

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alright here it goes...I test for the basics...nintrite (0), nitrate (0), Ph (8.4), and ammonia (0) every other day. I have 75-100 lbs. of live rock maybe even more. The aquarium has been up and running for a little over a year. I supplement with calmax part A and B everyday. I also add reef solution(reef and fish maintenance additive) once every 3 days or so. I keep the temp b/w 78 and 79.

My tank is a 90 gallon bowfront tank with 2 hydor koralia's, tom aquatiocs pro series wet/dry filter with built in skimmer(really sucks), current satellite 4x65 watt pc fixture, and via aqua titanium tube heater.

Livestock includes: 1 medium foxface, 5 green chromis, 1 firefish, 2 cleaner shrimp, tomato clown, bristle star, 5-6 hermits, 7 large turbo snails

1 small head of frogspawn, nice colonies of various zooas, xenia, green star polyps, and a couple of ricordea.

I feed the fish Tetra Marine salt water flakes, San Fransisco Bay frozen brine shrimp, and formula 1 w/ gell binder. i soak all the foods in GVH fish food soak. I also supplement the corals with Liquid Life bio plankton.

I use Coralife salt......salinity 1.025...tank is 1.3 years old

 

the clown's tail is also split in some places

 

This sounds kinda similar to a situation I just had last week with a fairy wrasse, who unfortunately died. I hope someone has an idea of what is wrong. I hate to see it happen to someone else.

 

Possibly a bacterial infection of some sort.... I Lost my whole tank to a situation about 4 months ago. Fish got discolored... raggedy looking... Spazzed out with their swimming. Got lethargic... Even though all my params where set... something was off. My key item to fix that was a UV steralizer...

Im not 100% positive that that is what you have... Just throwing it out there. The situation sounds familiar.

Eh well Had to edit, I didnt loose 2 fish, Algae Blenny and Flame Firefish...

 

Thanks for the comments. I have the clown in qurantine right now and am treating him with nitrofuracin green powder. I'll let you know what happens8)

 

I had this happen to a flasher wrasse I had a while back. It almost seemed like it was 1/2 paralyzed and could barely swim but was still eating when food floated by and even seemed to start getting better a few weeks later BUT then came home from work and saw my CUC devouring the little guy one day.

Never knew what happened and since then no problems with any other fish and even got another flasher with no issues as well so I'm curious to get more info on what could have caused this

 

Stung by the Foxface?