Dark Spots on otherwise healthy clown!!

[HeatherMarieDDS]

I just noticed today that my little dude is covered in these dark spots!! I have no idea what they are or if it is a disease. Can anyone help me ID these? He seems otherwise perfectly fine, it was hard getting a picture of him because he was being his normal spastic self. Also, all of my other fish friends seem fine.

 

[bob1968]

When they get stung from hammers corals they
Get black dots.

 

[tritonman]

When they get stung from hammers corals they
Get black dots.

+1

My clowns swim near a large hammer and I occasionally see a black spot on their body.

 

[Mabyboi]

Definitely spots from a hammer or torch coral, even an octobubble

 

[yamaha16bw]

Hmmm I was just about to do a search on this myself. I notice my 2 clown having the same issue off and on and was wondering what it might be. I have a somewhat large Frogspawn, It wasnt listed but I'd assume same goes for them?

How big of a problem can that be? My clowns have never shown signs of sickness in the 2 years ive had them.

 

[paddyob]

Definitely burns from trying to host corals. Once they adapt to the coral's sting they will stop showing burns.

And agree, LPS are the usual suspects.

 

[badharley99]

Mine has those spots also will they go away if they are not around the coral anymore

 

[yamaha16bw]

Well mine normally stay on the other side of the tank because the have a BTA they host hmmm. Come to think of it I started seeing the spots when my bta split about 2 weeks ago. I wonder if the splitting and trying to host both has anything to do with it?

 

[The Escaped Ape]

I can't see the picture, but my two oscellaris had the same problem. Nothing to do with being stung by a Euphyllia (I don't have one), but they go away and occasionally come back. Nothing to be too worried about I think.