travisandsuch
Community Member
We recently discovered that our two clowns have what appears to be brooklynella (see pics). This occurred after receiving an order of new fish, the third order we’ve received in the last several months. I’ve copied the email we went the seller below for further context.
In their response, they diagnosed the brook and argued it was laying dormant in the clowns and emerged as a stress response due to the introduction of the most recent new fish. They recommended copper or formalin to treat. From reading R2R threads, it didn’t sound like copper was effective. We’re concerned about the toxicity of formalin because we have a young child in the house. We’ve read that Ruby Reef Rally Pro could work (we ordered some that will arrive tomorrow) but we wanted to confirm a few things:
(1) Do you agree with the brook diagnosis?
(2) Can Ruby Reef Rally Pro work for brook?
(3) If so, can it be placed directly into our display tank? We have fish and snails, no other inverts or corals (but do plan to add them in the future)?
(4) Is there anything we should/can do in advance of the arrival of the Ruby Reef Rally?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
EMAIL TO SELLER
I'm happy to have a phone call to discuss this, but I think that we did end up with something (we're too new to this to know what) either from the DOA gramma, the McCoskers that we received on Sept. 20 or the Tomini that arrived on Oct. 11. I had previously emailed about the McCoskers, since when it died a few days after arrival it looked like it was covered in ich or something, and was told to keep an eye on the tank. We have been, and didn't notice anything, but we've had the lights turned off until now since we didn't want to invite algae without having a CUC.
Some background on the tank and current situation:
After the gramma died, also covered in a white film, we turned on the lights today to check and our clownfish are clearly ill. Pictures below. We think the Tomini is also showing it on its fins but it's too unsettled by the lights and keeps darting into its cave when we try to approach.
Other than the clownfish, every living thing in our tank was from [SELLER]. We got the clownfish, our first fish, in March from a local fish store and within a few days found they had ich. So we removed them from the display tank and put them in a tank running copper power as outlined on the bottle. During and following that, the main tank was kept fallow with the temp bumped up to 83 for 60 days before we reintroduced the clownfish. Then after observing them and not seeing any signs of ich recurrence, we made our first order from [SELLER] in June. We've then had no signs that we noticed until that McCoskers. I don't want to be accusing you without merit, we just don't understand how our fish could now be showing signs of illness unless it was from one of our [SELLER] orders.
In their response, they diagnosed the brook and argued it was laying dormant in the clowns and emerged as a stress response due to the introduction of the most recent new fish. They recommended copper or formalin to treat. From reading R2R threads, it didn’t sound like copper was effective. We’re concerned about the toxicity of formalin because we have a young child in the house. We’ve read that Ruby Reef Rally Pro could work (we ordered some that will arrive tomorrow) but we wanted to confirm a few things:
(1) Do you agree with the brook diagnosis?
(2) Can Ruby Reef Rally Pro work for brook?
(3) If so, can it be placed directly into our display tank? We have fish and snails, no other inverts or corals (but do plan to add them in the future)?
(4) Is there anything we should/can do in advance of the arrival of the Ruby Reef Rally?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
EMAIL TO SELLER
I'm happy to have a phone call to discuss this, but I think that we did end up with something (we're too new to this to know what) either from the DOA gramma, the McCoskers that we received on Sept. 20 or the Tomini that arrived on Oct. 11. I had previously emailed about the McCoskers, since when it died a few days after arrival it looked like it was covered in ich or something, and was told to keep an eye on the tank. We have been, and didn't notice anything, but we've had the lights turned off until now since we didn't want to invite algae without having a CUC.
Some background on the tank and current situation:
After the gramma died, also covered in a white film, we turned on the lights today to check and our clownfish are clearly ill. Pictures below. We think the Tomini is also showing it on its fins but it's too unsettled by the lights and keeps darting into its cave when we try to approach.
Other than the clownfish, every living thing in our tank was from [SELLER]. We got the clownfish, our first fish, in March from a local fish store and within a few days found they had ich. So we removed them from the display tank and put them in a tank running copper power as outlined on the bottle. During and following that, the main tank was kept fallow with the temp bumped up to 83 for 60 days before we reintroduced the clownfish. Then after observing them and not seeing any signs of ich recurrence, we made our first order from [SELLER] in June. We've then had no signs that we noticed until that McCoskers. I don't want to be accusing you without merit, we just don't understand how our fish could now be showing signs of illness unless it was from one of our [SELLER] orders.
