Bruise on clownfish? Or something else? Burn maybe?

[MikeD]

Bruise or burn or something to be worried about? It's not cottony and fuzzying (if that's a word) up. The pair has been rubbing up against my torch coral frag and my elegance coral over the last few weeks when before they wouldn't have any of it! Behavior is the same, actively eating and swimming around. It's just the one 'bad' side. Any opinions? Sorry for the bad pics, it's so hard to catch fish in action with the camera (any tips) and these are pretty much the best of about 50 I had to take.

Thanks,

Mike

Cute couple huh?

I hope he'll be okay!!! BTW, they've been in there for about a year now with the same inhabitants, a green chromis that never grew, a lawnmower blenny, a yellow damsel, and a pajama cardinal.

 

[MikeD]

Bump - anyone? Should be okay if the clownfish is behaving normally?

 

[Slakker]

I would certainly be worried about it, but have no idea what it could be.

 

[RightWinger210]

Reminds me of a mark left by an anemone sting on a Lamark Angel, although it wasn't "fuzzy" keep an eye on if it is, it could be something bad, like a fungus or something like that.

 

[redvipe2010]

How long have you had the clown? Did you QT it?

I've never seen a clown and a chromis do that before. Great shot!

 

[MikeD]

Clown was QT'd and I've had it for about a year now. The two clowns and the chromis are best friends it's so funny!!! The chromis sometimes tries to act like them with going near the corals and feeding and just about anything.

 

[redvipe2010]

Sounds like it has been stung. That relationship with the clownfish and chromis is super!!!! I love looking at that pic!

 

[kurt72]

i put up a post up 2 months ago for my female maroon with what looks like the same thing, and got no reply. :mad2: but i am not bitter.

anyway, i couldn't find anything in the clownfish book by Joyce D. Wilkerson, nor online. I was freaked out, but whatever it was, it went away. i am thinking making it's a scrape, or a burn? i would just keep an eye on it, and if it appears to get worse, qt. is the fish behaving normally?

 

[MikeD]

Yes, fish is behaving normally. Funny thing is I don't have an anemone yet. Just a torch, an elegance and some hammer frags that I see as a culprit - oh I have som galaxea too but I have never seen them by it. Can corals sting a clownfish worse than an anemone or do you think that it can just affect them more because it's a 'different' type of sting?

Mike

 

[redvipe2010]

I would bet it is the elegance coral. It is my understanding they have one heck of a sting. I would do some research on the elegance.

 

[MikeD]

They do hang out around that elegance... and the torch... Their two favs!

 

[redvipe2010]

I don't think the torch would do that. Clowns have been known to host a torch coral.

 

[RightWinger210]

From the pictures it looks like a wounding, caused by a bad scrape or bite

 

[MikeD]

When clownfish rub against a host, is it possible to get a bad scrape like that (if it is a scrape) on something like an elegance or other coral simply because these corals have stony parts to them? When I see them brushing up against them, they do so kinda hard - and they aren't squishy anemones!!

Mike

 

[Grunt]

I've had fish that were stung by sweeper tentacles of misc corals. However, my clowns host in frogspawn, hammer, torch and a long tentacle plate, oh and GSP. I'd keep an eye on it just incase it might be fungus or something. Let us know how he does
Cheers

 

[55semireef]

It kind of looked like a bacterial infection but I am probably wrong.

 

[MikeD]

If it's still bad and the behavior changes, I'll QT with melafix maybe.

 

[55semireef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9796626#post9796626 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MikeD
If it's still bad and the behavior changes, I'll QT with melafix maybe.

Good idea.