Mucous on devil's hand, toadstool and...female clownfish?

[Edward]

I have some mucous film developing on my devil's hand and toadstool...my toadstool has barely opened the past few days and my devil's hand is starting to open less now too, they're not melting and my parameters are fine so I'm stumped. The same film seems to be on my female onyx clown too, she looks kind of beat up and the only other tank mates she has are her mate and a pearl jawfish who i haven't seen since I put him in the tank but know he's there due to the constantly changing "sandscape". I thought it may be clownfish ich but any significant white splotching seems to have fallen off in the past four hours. She still has some opaque splotches on her and is not acting any different. I just don't want to lose her or my corals. Does anyone have any idea what these could be? I came home from work to check her and try and post something. I'll put pictures up later but I am thoroughly stumped. The film on the corals is newly developing and it seems to be the same color and texture as the one on the female onyx.

Any input is appreciated,

Eddie

 

[jtmac]

sounds like they are just "shedding" the outer layer. they will do that from time to time. My toad was unhappy for like a month or so till it shed its outer layer and now in the last few weeks since it has been happy and growing with full expansion. As far as the clown is it trying to host the toad? she could have gotten it on her that way

 

[MofoCorals]

+1 on shedding. Mine do it all the time.

 

[Edward]

well, she may have. It did look like ich this morning...but it went away in 4 hours? somethings fishy.

Shedding makes sense, I'd never seen it on a larger scale since i've always had such small pieces.

 

[Edward]

when the lights went off last night...she was no where to be seen. when the lights went on this morning, no where to be seen. With the amount of crabs/nassarius snails I have I doubt ill find a body if she did die and is not hiding. but on a lighter note, my corals are now fine. within the next week I may potentially be buying a new onyx clown or selling my male =(