woah help please. I cant identify this

TOURKID

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Im about to cry :(

I took a long look at my maroon before I left, went shopping maybe 2 hours, and when I got home, I mixed some mysis and emerald entree, fed them, fed another tank, came back to main and

Theres somthing ON my fishes eye.
It is white/clear
I almost thought it looked like a pod, but she keeps trying to rub it on the anemone tenicles and it looks like pieces are coming off it
(a bug, that got stung by anemone?)
(skin peeling it looks like)
But its on the eyeball, it cant be skin or mucus (can it?)
Im in pure panic. Im supposed to leave for 3 days in 4 days and I dont even know what it is or where to begin.

Changes ive made:
Been acclimating tank from pc's to 250 watt mh
I left the screens but today I lowered the light 2 links

I did my regular every sunday water change today. R/O water from lfs

Ive been feeding her slightly different foods. Zoe for one.. along with flake and emerald entree, then the regular stuff

I started using selcon occasionally since 2 weeks ago

Salinity 1.025 refractometer
calcuim.. 410
alk.. 5 (weird test, but its normal range)
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 0
phos - undetectable

uh... blood shrimp, 2 peppermint shrimp, bta anemone, zoas, and polyps

1 more weird thing. I have moon polyps, and after I fed the tank, I came back about 6 minutes later and this hermit was terrorizing a polyp. to the point that its about dead and spewing slime everywhere. (i guess its a far fetch for slime to do this to my girls eye)

Please point me in a direction at least. The light just went out and I fear for the worst in the morning. Am All set to stay home tomorrow if I can help her that quickly.

QT has a baby maroon in it being treated for internal parasites so this could becomw quite an issue for me :(

any advice, guesses or suggestions, pleaseplease do so

maggie
*totally bummed out*

heres the best pic of the eye i can get while in the main tank. she wont leave the anemone.. shes acting like somthings bothering her/ is wrong :( but you can see its rather large....

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I have seen that with ny Niger trigger when I first got him. IT went away in a couple of days although this may not be the case with you.
 
did u ever see another one? Im thinking a parasite now, but i dont know where it could have come from.....
 
I only saw one. It moved around a bit but eventually was gone. It either went off on its own or my niger scraped it off. But it looked just like that by the eye area. WAit for a day and see what happens. If it is a parasite, wouldn't the anemone kill it with its sting?
 
interestingly enough... I guess so.. because i just took a flashlight to the tank, and yes it is gone. shes still acting weird as far as i can tell (nuzzling into the anemone on that side of her face)

Im reading on external parasites now.. but i havent adding anything to my tank but water and food for an awfully long time.. so im thinking its somthing weirder.
 
Your clown should be fine in a couple of days. Maybe the clown thinks its still there or still feels the itch kind of like an ant bite.
 
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