my clown has black spots / bruises

[plankton99]

Over the last few weeks my clownfish has developed black spots/bruises. They are not black spots like black ich but rather under the scale dark spots. Is this a disease or is he simply getting stung by the anemone or by my torch coral. She is the female of a mated pair that hosts in this anemone and the male (which is smaller) has no black spots/bruises. See pic below.

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[somdinwong]

been hanging in the zoas/paly's

 

[DOTZ]

It's normal. Mine developed a few spots over time and they never went away. I don't have a nem in my tank so I doubt that's it.

 

[plankton99]

Thanks, she seems healthy other than the black spots.

 

[fox2589]

i would say torch stings..-Drew

 

[zooty]

my naked clowns get the same spots when the rub in zoas/palys

 

[plankton99]

my naked clowns get the same spots when the rub in zoas/palys

what are palys?

 

[cdsheid]

Just had the same thing.

Just had the same thing.

I have 2 clowns in a 30 gal nano that had the identical thing. I was told it was indeed black ich. I was advised to do a fresh water dip with formulant added to the water. You want to by a gallon of water of the shelf at room temperatur and the required amount of drops to the water. Leave fish in the water for 5 to 10 min. You be the judge on that. The fish will look like their dying mainly because they are slowly but they will survive. My local lfs guy told me that he accidently forgot about one for 2 hrs and it lived. But instantly their going to fall on their back and look dead. I was real worried so i tapped the jug and he moved i would not do this as they will already be stressed enough. But took them out and immediately noticed fewer spots. Couple days later all spots gone and they have not came back yet. But i did this one week ago today. You be the judge whether you think you need to or not. but again my spots looked identical and they can transfer to the other fish. You may just be lucky they havent yet i had to dip both of mine. Good Luck.

 

[plankton99]

I have 2 clowns in a 30 gal nano that had the identical thing. I was told it was indeed black ich. I was advised to do a fresh water dip with formulant added to the water. You want to by a gallon of water of the shelf at room temperatur and the required amount of drops to the water. Leave fish in the water for 5 to 10 min. You be the judge on that. The fish will look like their dying mainly because they are slowly but they will survive. My local lfs guy told me that he accidently forgot about one for 2 hrs and it lived. But instantly their going to fall on their back and look dead. I was real worried so i tapped the jug and he moved i would not do this as they will already be stressed enough. But took them out and immediately noticed fewer spots. Couple days later all spots gone and they have not came back yet. But i did this one week ago today. You be the judge whether you think you need to or not. but again my spots looked identical and they can transfer to the other fish. You may just be lucky they havent yet i had to dip both of mine. Good Luck.

I don't think this is black ich. I've seen that before and this does not look like that. Others think that it is stinging from zoas or torch coral...

 

[cdsheid]

idk

idk

:spin3:Yeah i have zoas and palys i guess it could of been those and they happen to go away right after doin the dip. I had just never seen them really get that close. But again I just treated them for the easiest one because i really dont know who to post pics yet. I was also told they could be another parasite very rare but it is seen the cause black legions just like these. I forget what i was told the name of it was. But their a parasite that release from the sand attach to the fish then die and fal off. So it appears your fish gets better. but when they fall off and hit the sand they explode and create more. Again i dont think its that but if its a continuing problem you may have to look more into it. Hopefully you kill it :uzi: or get rid of the spots some how good luck.

 

[Doni]

It appears to be just a physiological response to an irritant. If you remove the fish (or coral), the spots will slowly disappear.

Here is a photo of a clown I had back in 2005. It had continually developed the dark spots over a years time due to a coral (possibly euphyllia).
The spots did not affect the fish at all as it was very healthy and spawn every two weeks!