Leech !!!

[Wrassy]

I noticed a transparent bodied parasite on one of my clown fins it anchored like a flat fish with 2 black eyes and black body pls help in getting it out, must I isolate the clown or wat? help urgent.

[Tanzy]

http://www.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/archi...2002/03/4/69656

Try to catch the clown with the pod on it and in a separate tank, pull that bugger off and crush it!

[Wrassy]

use what to pull it off? it stick on well, I might hurt the fish.

[Tanzy]

Just yank it out with a pair of forceps or tweezers. Clowns are pretty tough fish so don't worry. My clowns get bone deep cuts from my purple tang without any problem.

[hotsoup]

Hi Tanzy,

Any medication to cure it?

[Tanzy]

Don't know but there's one reefer here who is quite partial towards using cyanide.

[Creetin]

wrassy, it sounds like a parasitic isopod... see if it looks like any of this:

isopods

or if it has big black eyes, it might look like in the pic...

[hongqixian]

I noticed a transparent bodied parasite on one of my clown fins it anchored like a flat fish with 2 black eyes and black body pls help in getting it out, must I isolate the clown or wat? help urgent.

It will not stay there forever. When it is done ###### blood mostly at night it will go off into the rocks and sand to hide during the day. Then it will attack again.

[PLataX]

yah aft fluid/blood ######, the sucka will chao into the rocks just to suck some other unsuspecting fish....u must catch the fish with the isopod and give them both a freshwater bath ASAP......the sucka cannot tah-han the dip....sure die....

[Wrassy]

Aiyoh So horri... the pod that i describe not this one lah

Its flat the pic you show is so fleshy. When i crush its like nut shell cracking sound and got blood. today saw a smaller one on my other clown...

the earlier clown died this morning...

dunno izzit becoz of the sucker.

then for my still alive clown, I isolate and got the sucker out but the clown like sei sei leh

cannot balance properly and looks dizzy like that stay close to the filter inlet why??? why??? tel me why??

[Tanzy]

Is your tank properly cycled?

I'll measure salinity, pH, temperature, ammonia, nitrite levels to know for sure what is the problem. Might be nitrites.

[Creetin]

ironically mi newly bot flame also kena a parasite (i tink). its this round thingy on the back fins, dark brown in color...best part is the flame dun wana let me catch him (yeah now i know when they say its diff to catch ani fish in ur tank)....resort to the bottle method...pepsi, i hope u can help!

once i catch that brown piece of c***, i am gonna kill, kill, kill!

[Creetin]

mi pepsi method worked well. i had the flame just now and proceeded to remove the parasite. or so i tot.... it didnt seem like a parasite, i squeezed it and erm a small white lump came out. After that put the fish back. he is swimming as normal, and the flesh is torn cos of wat i did. now i am thinking whether i did the right thing. it seems like a growth on his body and i pulled it off - it must really hurt!

[PLataX]

Thats y i ask u guys to use freshwater dip.....won't leave injury marks....

[Creetin]

erm can anyone identify this illness? pimples or acne issit?

[Wrassy]

Bot a mandarin to eat the bast**d and seems my tank is normal again... bad news is my mandarin vanish into thin air

Dunno the sebae anemone got eat it or not? any one can deduce an explaination for the mandarin's disappearance?

[Creetin]

erm Wrassy, the mandarin has this reputation for being particularly picky about food and a difficult fish to keep well fed. It needs lotsa rock for grazing too... I hope ur mandarin is into eating brine shrimp/other food preparations in ur tank, otherwise it will starve...

[Wrassy]

Now I wana feed it also no chance cant find it in my tank anyway

[hongqixian]

" Now I wana feed it also no chance cant find it in my tank anyway "

Did you find out what it ate before you bought it?

[PLataX]

Most likely it starved to death...and the pests got to him....damm crabs & bristle worms or maybe u've got a power predator....like mantis shrimp or pistol shrimp...

[Wrassy]

i have no mantis or pistol shrimp lah i check liao so sad dunno where it goes if it dies sure can see what rite?

[Dinosaur]

i have no mantis or pistol shrimp lah i check liao so sad dunno where it goes if it dies sure can see what rite?

Not the case normally. Unlike fishes in river and open sea, when marine fish are dying, he will normally 'park' itself within rocks and get stuck there. If you do not remove in time, it will decompose there and hence affect your water quality.

Unlike tropical fish, they are not use to be feed. So when you buy new fish, it is important to find out if it is already eating. If not you have to qurantine them seperately, allowing them to get use to feeding.