My clown has brown spots on it.

[MOX]

any suggestions or insight of any sort.
also i seem to be killing more than i am keeping i had bought 2 fish in the past 2 months a kole tang that was right out of the bag at LFS normaly i would wait to see how it would act and see if it had ick. but i bought him any ways well hes dead and gone.
next i bought a rainford goby he sat in the Q-tank for 2 weeks i provided him with fresh rosk with pods and other bug for him to eat and also the tank has plenty for him to eat but he has also vanished. PH is good nitrites and nitrates at zero as well as ammoinia. thats all the testing i have done. This is a photo of the clown thanx

 

[Critter]

Check into "Black Ich"... when I had an ich outbreak a couple of months ago, I saw alot of posts about black ich.

 

[Critter]

MOX: how did the black spots turn out?

 

[MOX]

well i have yet to do any thing i did notcie my specific gravity fell to about 2.021 so i did a big water change.
the spots seem to be spreading on him, but i still don't think its any thing like a parasite. i posted this in the fish disease treatment forum with most people telling me that its most likly that my clown is hiting the frogspawn and getting stung. ill keep ya posted.

 

[zooqi]

You could have either black ich but usually it apears on tangs. You also might have a coral that is stinging it. Sometimes anemones do that too. Do you have aiptasia or any type of anemone.
also check this link about black ich.
http://www.petsforum.com/personal/trevor-jones/blackich.html

 

[MOX]

thanks Mo i have done alot of searching all over the net and i am coming up with it being cuased by the frogspawns i have in the tank. he is geting more spots but over all health is fine eating well and the other fish is untouched. not sure if i am going to release the potters angel i bought into the main tank yet.

might it be his diet only eating brine and mysis???

 

[MOX]

well my clown has spots are all over him now. he still shows no sings of discomfort in any way i belive its from the frogspawn in the tank and that seems to be the most common response i am getting from most of the people that replied to my post.

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the rest of the people said it might be black ick and all agreed to treat with a formalin bath. when i set up my new 75 gallon tank i plan on placeing him in the q tank do you think that the spots will go away or is he stained for life lol.

thank you again for your responses.

 

[Critter]

Hey MOX I would have hoped it would have worked its way out by now.. I've never delt with black ich.. but golly, I would of thought it would have worked its way out by now.. I also agree with Mo, when I first put in my anemone, I did notice on the white stripes of my clown black scratches, but they went away in a week. To be honest, when I went through my first and only bought with saltwater ich I used a product called Kick-Ich. Now some say it works some say it doesn't.. but who knows.. all I can say, is I had an ammonia spike from a dead fish, and that brought on the ich, I treated per the instructions of the kick-ich, and within 2 weeks it was totaly gone. It didn't hurt my softies or my galaxian nor did it bother any of my inverts.. star, snails, crabs, cleaner shrimp etc.

If youre going to do formalin, read up on it, there are quite a few wild stories on it. I bought it myself to try but didn't get that far. Good luck!

 

[MOX]

thank you critter but i still think its not ich but not shure enough to put in my potters angel that been in the q tank for a month.
i am going to put every thing in my 55 in to a 75 at that time i will remove the cloawn placing him in a new tank and hope to add the potters angel thinking about waiting and if it is ich just let it die off just to be safe. thanx again sorry you could not make it to the swap it was a good time.

 

[zooqi]

The spots on your clown is the same as the spots on a clown fish in Lycoming College Aquariu (the oldest and biggest clown) and they added another one and nothing on that one. How about trying to post a thread in the clownfish and have them come and look at the pictures here and see what others thing too.

 

[Critter]

Age spots

 

[stykthyn]

not black ich, black ich is raised those just appear to be melanin spots. I kind of like them. gives the fish some character.