What is this?

[hilde123]

This just showed up on my clownfish in the last few days, Im thinking it may be Lympho. It seems like it may be bothering him as he seems less active than he used to be. He has been in my tank for about years and still is eating very aggressively when I add food. I must say, I think he is going senile, I have about 3 LTAs and one large RBTA and he seems to have taken a liking to a nice bed of GHA that is growing. While I do have a trace amount of phosphate (yes I am working on it), it is nowhere near enough to affect the fish, all SPS corals are doing great. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated:

 

[MrTuskfish]

I can't tell from the pic; but lympho is easy to diagnose. It has a texture like miniature cottage or cauliflower--weird analogies, I know. Usually, it doesn't bother fish, but being in the way of pec. fin movement, it might. IF it is lympho, just good water & diet will help it disappear, its a virus and not contagious of deadly. If it isn't lympho, pleas describe what it looks like. Does it look like a parasite or a growth on the fish? I've seen and removed isopods that looked similar.

 

[hilde123]

Here are a few more pics, hopefully they help show the condition a little better. Upon closer inspection it is clear that there is a lump under the skin where the root meets the body with a white tip that is external(as seen in the pics). It is just aft of the gill. I was thinking it could be an isopod, but I did not think they burrow like that and I didn't think they had a bright white head? That pic makes my tank look like it is full of GHA, its not that bad though the clown just thinks its a green anenome, see a pic of the overall tank below.

 

[MrTuskfish]

Isopods come in countless shapes and sizes.

 

[hilde123]

So you think it is an isopod? Do they burrow?

 

[MrTuskfish]

If it doesn't have the texture of lympho; an isopod would just be another guess. I sure don't know for sure what it is. Lympho is the most obvious guess; but its easy to tell by the texture described in the post above.

 

[hilde123]

Must have been lympho because it finally receded and went away on its own. Thanks for your help everyone.