Spots on Clown

[NySharkBait]

My clown fish have these black spots on them. Doesn't appear to be Ich. Any ideas?

 

[oldbones]

Sting marks from an Anamone or Euphyllia would be my armchair diagnosis.

My clowns are in a nano with no anemones. I do have a nice Torch coral in there though. After a couple months, they started hosting in the torch but had similar markings to yours for the first few weeks. The build up a tolerance, and likely the coral gets used to the intrusion, and now they can spend all day in the torch with no ill effects.

 

[NySharkBait]

LFS thought same thing. They haven't hosted my anemone yet, so I don't know what could be doing it. Hammer?

 

[lokmar]

My clowns look the same. I came here tonight looking for a reason and am relieved to find it I hope. Mine host in a RBTA thats about 8" in dia. The lazy bums hardly ever come out of it! Other then these spots, about 6-8 of them, they seem ok. They've been like that for more then a month at the very least.

 

[CafeReef]

LFS thought same thing. They haven't hosted my anemone yet, so I don't know what could be doing it. Hammer?

Hammer could cause this yes. I had sting marks on my clowns, they eventually went away after a few weeks.

 

[2smokes]

Black spots means it was stinged by a coral or anemone.My clown also got black spots some times and i didnt had an anemone, so my guess is a coral that does this.

 

[tri4god]

Isnt it ok that the clowns are stung by the anemone? Isn't it natural for clowns?

 

[tri4god]

Isn't it ok for Anemone's to sting clowns?

 

[Grkgod36]

My clown is loaded with them too and he lives in my frogspawn

 

[Bent]

That looks like a Paravortex or Turbanella worm infection, otherwise known as black ich.

What was your QT regimine with this animal?

 

[lokmar]

That looks like a Paravortex or Turbanella worm infection, otherwise known as black ich.

What was your QT regimine with this animal?

I've had all my fish for over a year. I did tank transfer on them all. However, I've added frags here and there. No signs of this on the blue hippo, tomini, scribbled rabbit, or the 6-line wrasse.

 

[Grkgod36]

Highly doubt is black ich , the clown looks fine . Mine looks with marks and I've had him for years . All my fish spent 3 months in qt. everyone healthy and fat!!

 

[Bent]

If you've had them that long it probably isn't disease.

FYI though, TTM won't cure "black ich" since it is actually worms and not crypto.

 

[homerclease]

How long does it take for the black spots to clear... my clowns are showing the same signs...