Lymphocystis on my clownfish?

VeL

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A month ago I transfered my clowns back to the DT after they've spent near 8 months in QT. They've been through copper (1 month), chloroquine phosphate (1 month), hyposalinity (1 month) and like 6 weeks of prazipro treatement. The long treatement was to eradicate the "supposed ich or another crypto" that kept reapearing... or at least I thought so. Anyhow, after all that treatement and after the clowns seemed okay i left them for 1 month in the QT for observation. No symptoms what-so-ever, they even laid eggs shortly before moving back to DT. Display was left fishless for 3+ months.
Few days ago however I noticed a spot of discoloration on one of the clown's body. It seemed that there was scale loss due to some injury. Couple of days later it looked like there was some fungus around that spot. Meanwhile the clown feels good from what it seems, he eats well and no other white spots but these shown on the picture. The other clown is completely okay too.
These white spots seem quite big and like poping out underneath the scales with irregular shape. To me it looks like lympho. What I thought to be crypto in the QT may have been viral lympho and that would explain why after proper treatement white bumps re-appeared from time to time (usually on the same clown). What do you think?

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When those spots go away, do they come back in the same location?

I have 2 maroon clowns that had very similar spots. They would go away here and there and sometimes I could also see areas that looked almost recessed where the spots were, like they were scarred. Several times the white spots went away. Several times the white spots came back at the same exact spot they were at before.

I believed some of the fish they were with had ich, although the clowns never scratched or showed other signs of ich. I treated them with the rest of the fish they were housed with. But I also believed an angel died from a bacterial infection, which is when I started treating. I used TTM, treating with prazipro and maracyn plus at the same time.

I'm still using ttm just to house them until a large qt is fully cycled. During transfers I have been looking very closely at them and I have not seen anything on the clowns. Even the spots that looked like they were scars are gone.
 
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