black spots on my clowns PIC

[Purple Penguins]

my one clown had these spots appear 2 months ago and they never spread, till today I noticed they really spread along with the other clown having some now as well, these clowns do not host anything, the spots are not raised and the clowns act perfectly normal, eating is great, and poo looks normal, if any thoughts please let me know

thanks
ang

 

[kevin2000]

That looks like melanistic response as a result of coral stings - common in clowns. No big deal.

 

[hubris007]

Yup. I'd say the culprit is likely there in the background.

 

[Purple Penguins]

hmmm.. wonder what they are trying to host when Im not looking

 

[rossthefishman]

I've got a pair of false percs that have the same thing. Each one has one small black spot one them, and they don't seem to be bothered by it. All I have in my tank are some mushrooms and a few polyps. They wouldn't sting them would they?

 

[Purple Penguins]

this tank has no mushrooms, it just has zoas, polyps, lps and soft, leathers, I know lps does sting them so it very well could be my torch, it is up near the to left corner of my tank where my clowns like to sleep, pic is tank about 10 mins ago...

 

[J. Montgomery]

I've seen false percs host in torch corals.

 

[Purple Penguins]

I have also seen them host in torch, however these two have never hosted anything, they even had a bta in their tank with them for 8 mths and would never go near it so I moved it to a diff tank with a perc, so who knows maybe now they are finally trying to host somthing, like the torch, but I have still not seen it

 

[FroMan]

My clowns have shown the same marks. The last time I pulled them out and treated for parasites. They were in QT for ~2 weeks. None of my other fish are showing any similar of marks or distress..

Only recently have the started to show up again. THe marks seem to be discreet and are not spreading.

I do have two ricordia along with a torch coral. Will the rics sting too?