What is it?

[triggreef]

It doesn't look like ich to me. Tank contains 2 maroon clowns, one dogface puffer, one blue damsel, one red coris wrasse. All were introduced after an 8 week fallow period. about 2 weeks ago.

First pic shows a spot that showed up about a week ago one the large maroon clown. Unsure of what it is took no action. About ich size but its fuzzy looking.

Today I find a mess on the same clown. One large spot just under dorsal fin. several on same side near tail but smaller and almost in a bunch. A few others on breast fin and other side of body. The big spot almost is like if you had a tiny bit of that coral glue and part stuck to the fish and gets smaller as it stretched before breaking. but fuzzy. Sorry no other way to describe it. There's also some similar on the opposite side of his face on the edge of his lip. Only spot I can see on the smaller clown is right in the middle of his bottom lip. I took about 100 pics to try to get good ones but this is the best I can do. Some of these pics have spots on the glass so don't look too hard at one spot on the fish unless you see it in multiple pics. Fish still eat and act normal. None besides the clowns are showing these puffy spots.

I'm really about to pull the fish and bleach this tank to start over. I just have no where to hold these fish, I have two qt full of others right now mid treatment.

 

[triggreef]

 

[triggreef]

And one cloudy eye on the smaller clown can be seen, third to last pic. That just showed up this morning too.

 

[triggreef]

Bump for some help please. One day later the fuzziness has gone away from the spots & they are now smaller flat sort of cloudy patches now. Still eating & seemingly un affected.

 

[rancoo]

I had this same problem and never figured it and and both of my clowns died.

 

[triggreef]

It almost looks like the spots have healed about 80% from the first day it should up. Now just a little discolored where they were. Very strange. Still eating, no scratching, normal breathing, no signs on other fish in the system.

 

[triggreef]

And just a couple days and new ones. It should be noted this is about a 4" clown so the spots seen are quite large, sesame seed or bigger.

Also today, spread to the rear of his adipose fin. And seems to eat away at the fin some. about 3/16" gone overnight.

Any help appreciated. If there's anything half way safe I'd like to try it in the display. All there is for inverts is colt, green finger leather, anemone, and some hitch hiker clams on the rocks. I'm about to give melafix a shot. He is still eating well and whatever it is doesn't seem to have any appetite for my other fish thankfully. I would think if it were brook they'd be dead now for sure.

 

[DrPat]

I have had a similar if not the same white lesions appear on a pair of breeding tomato clowns,without any pathological developments . Although I never had fins affected, It always appeared when the clowns would prepare the spawning site and fan out sand. it would eventually spontaneously disappear . Without any losses. If you want to treat do it in a QT and not the DT. I WOULDN'T BREAK DOWN THE dt BECAUSE IT MAY VERY WELL REAPPEAR IN THE NEXT SETUP.If all is well then I would watch it If YOU MOVE THEM TO A qt copper power would be my first choice . Antibiotics a second

 

[Triton_Z]

I would suspect some sort of parasite and they are rather large. They don't look like flukes due to the size and solid coloration. A temperature and pH matched FW dip would likely be an effective way to remove them, however they may now be in your DT and could very well re-infect your fish.

A short duration formalin dip would be a more aggressive treatment, but I have found FW dips to be very effective for external parasites and flukes.

Either dip would provide some temporary relief and slow down the infestation, which at this point, I think is needed given the visible increase in spot count on the clownfish.

What infestation are you coming back from requiring a 8 week fallow period? Ich? I agree the spots on your clowns are not Ich or Brook from the pictures posted.

 

[triggreef]

I'm just going to watch and wait and see at this point. No new ones have popped up and the old spots are getting smaller each day. The smaller clown had a cloudy eye for a day but it was clear the next day and there are still no spots on him. Wierd since they are basically in contact with each other 24/7. I'm not sure I could get the clown out unless I can grab him at night since he sleeps in the nem.

Triton, yes it was a fallow for ich but I only went 8 ish weeks and added corals and such during so it was not a good fallow. But still no ich showing so, so far so good I guess other than this wierdness.