Flame Angel has large white spot/tissue.

[clabern]

Hey everyone... I just got back from a week long vacation to a pretty bad looking Flame Angel in my tank. I had a tank sitter feeding the tank/looking over things (I have almost everything else automated) and he had mentioned that my Flame Angel had a spot, but I didn't realize it was this bad.

The other 4 fish (Pair of Occ Clowns, Royal Gamma, Green Mandarin) all look perfectly healthy, I've stared them down relentlessly and haven't found any spots.

Could anyone help identify what it is? The only thing I really know of is Ich, but it looks a bit worse than that. It's eating normally, but something's definitely wrong.

I've attempted to get him out of the tank and into my QT, but the moment I put a net/specimen container in the tank he just hides behind the rock till I take them out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[clabern]

After some more research it looks to me that it may be Lymphocystis.

(Looking at http://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/127010/diseased-fish-pictures)

I'm hoping this is the case, since this seems to be a fairly "better case scenario" disease.

 

[eholceker]

Looks like an injury. Your clowns going after the flame?

 

[clabern]

Clowns? No wayyyy. They are the most skiddish things in my tank.

If it's a wound, it'd be due to the Royal Gamma. He's a little angry buster, though I've never actually seen him touch another fish, only do his "scary face" at them.