Black spots on A. ocellaris ?

[LJA]

Some background:

Tank is 1 year + established, clown was the second addition of 3 and has been in the tank for over 10 months.

Other inhabitants are a Coral Beauty angel and psudochromis.

There are about half a dozen black spots on eat side of the clown, mostly in the tail, and end 1/3 region, with a few closer to the head. I can't get a picture because my camera can't focus that close up.

The black spots are about the size of a pencil tip and are only on the orange parts and not the stripes.


I can give more information if needed.


Any idea what this is?

 

[lorawalters13]

Has your clown been hosting anything? My clown has black spots all over him from getting too lovey dovey with his frogspawn. My understanding is the frogspawn stings and leaves hyper-pigmented marks (i.e. black spots) on the clownfish.

 

[LJA]

I've considered that an option but I have not seen it become hosted by anything in my tank. It was however chased into my frogspawn about 2 weeks ago by my psudochromis.

I thought this might be what it was just wanted to make sure.

 

[spleify]

One of my clowns gets this too. I don't think it is anything to worry about. This might sound weird, but what do you feed your fish? I started noticing this when I switched foods. I don't know if there is any direct correlation or not just a guess.

 

[joem1cha3l]

both of my percs host my forgspawn and also have the black pigmented marks on them

 

[LJA]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14689285#post14689285 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spleify
One of my clowns gets this too. I don't think it is anything to worry about. This might sound weird, but what do you feed your fish? I started noticing this when I switched foods. I don't know if there is any direct correlation or not just a guess.

I feed them about 5 different frozen foods and spirulina flake food.