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sabazerehi
02/18/2009, 12:59 PM
so after an ich outbreak i quarantined my pair of black and white clown for over four weeks and treated with hypo, the day i put them back in my main tank i immediately notice a lump on the side of my female clown. it's getting worse and i don't know what it is. it's brownish in color and it looks like exposed flesh or like her brains are coming out of the side of her head or something. she's still eating and physically that's the only thing wrong with her. it started as a lump and then turned into an open wound with stuff coming out of it, sorry it's really hard to describe. she seems like she might be gasping for air a little but i might just be paranoid. there's also the male in the tank and a bicolor fairy wrasse which both seem to be doing great. i took some crappy pics but it'll give you an idea of how it started out. please give me some idea of what i should do, should i do a freshwater dip as a cautionary step? can it hurt? i'm going to try to catch her later and put her back in the qt also. i'm just sick of losing fish even when i'm doing everything i'm supposed to, but i know things never go as planned in this hobby but it is disheartening. here are the pics. thanks for any help

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Octoberfest
02/18/2009, 01:09 PM
is she hosting anything, anemone or coral?

Octoberfest
02/18/2009, 01:09 PM
is she hosting anything, anemone or coral?

sabazerehi
02/18/2009, 01:11 PM
no nothing could have stung her, she's not hosting in anything. nor is she twitching or scratching

Octoberfest
02/18/2009, 01:12 PM
anything that could have hurt her?

sabazerehi
02/18/2009, 01:18 PM
she could've hit it against a rock i guess but would it get worse with time? i thought maybe the male bit her or something at first but it's a pretty bad wound and he's small. i don't think he could've caused that much damage. it started more like a bump and now i can see flesh sticking out, or at least what i think is flesh.

schristi69
02/18/2009, 11:10 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexamita

looks like HLLE

Thoro
02/19/2009, 12:30 AM
My clown developed what looked like HLLE about a month ago but it wasnt on the head it was on the side or lateral line. It turned out my skimmer pump was leaking stray voltage into the tank, so i got a new pump and the fish healed up just fine. I'm not sure if the stray voltage caused it, but since it healed up after I fixed the problem I have to believe that was that cause.

69.nova.ss
02/19/2009, 09:36 PM
its a bite mark my clown got it after it fought with another fish

sabazerehi
02/19/2009, 11:09 PM
ya i've gone through several disease id sites and nothing matches, how long till it gets better? and do i have to worry about it getting infected?

sabazerehi
02/19/2009, 11:50 PM
i got some better pics

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schristi69
02/20/2009, 03:10 PM
Don't let the fish loss get you down. Considering how some of these guys are caught and transported and over/interbred, it is amazing any of them survive the stress. My tank sometimes seems to be a fish black hole. Put them in and they are never to be seen again. But then sometimes, months later, they just pop back up. Just in the last few months I have sent to another dimension 3 peppermint shrimp, 2 rainford gobies, 8 turbo snails, and a firefish. Some critters make it, some don't. Yet I have a Watchman goby and 2 clowns that survived a period of neglect that killed almost every coral I had and looked like a hair algae growth tank. My room took on a green glow when the lights kicked on. :) All you can do is get your stock from the best possible place and do your best.