Clownfish help

usnavyame

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I bought 2 clownfish about a week ago. They do not eat at least when I am around. I do see them picking at the rocks but they spit the food out. I have some brine shrimp in garlic to see if that helps. I did notice some lumps on the tail part of the smaller pic. I tried taking a picture but it still is hard to see. It is not wait spots like ick but lumps. I have no idea what is causing the lumps or why they will not eat. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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Have you tried feeding them pellets? My clowns love the Spectrum pellets that you can get at your local LFS.
 
Hi it could be Lymphocystis the white lumps, its actually quite common.
My black occie developed it and its now completely healed after a month.
I feed Brine, Cyclopeeze and ocean nutrition formula 1 and 2, they go wild for it.
 
I'm having the same issue, I never see my clown eat. He's been in there for a little over a week, so I assume he's eating something. I don't think he would still be alive if he hadn't ate for a week, right? Also, he always sticks to a back corner in the bottom of the tank, he almost never comes out. When I first got him, he was out and about swimming around, now he just hovers in his little corner. He looks plump and healthy, and he's active, he just never moves and I never see him eat.
 
Here is an update. I put some garlic in the brine shrimp and one of my clowns loved it. The other clown with the growth on him which is now on both sides did not eat. They both swim around the tank fine. Here is another pic of the clown that has this growth. In the pic it is white and is right after the middle white stripe
 

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