Black spots on

[yanni]

Hey all!!

my two clowns (perculas I believe?) have recently developed these black spots on them, that my partner noticed. I’ve had them for over a year now, and they had these black spots once before maybe 8 months ago? when they were trying to host an elegance, but I haven’t seen the dots since. I attached photos to see, although they may be blurry, the clowns are little ***** who don’t like posing hahaha

i have xenia, ricordea, red monti, GSP, a small lobo, and some assorted zoas in the tank. recent additions include a lawnmower blenny (a week ago) that had no spots on it prior to adding, a conch snail(a week ago), some turbo snails(two weeks ago).

I haven’t seen them hosting other corals in the tank, so I’m not sure if they’re stings. Maybe they are, i can’t watch the tank 24/7, but I spend a lot of time around the tank.

parameters are
Nitrate: 15
Phosphate: 0.02
SG: 1.025
Alk: 10
Calc: 400
Mag: 1300

 

[fishguy242]

#fishmedic

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

That does look like hypermelanization from a coral sting. I can’t say why that would just start now though. There aren’t any diseases that look like this though, so in the absence of other symptoms, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Jay

 

[yanni]

That does look like hypermelanization from a coral sting. I can’t say why that would just start now though. There aren’t any diseases that look like this though, so in the absence of other symptoms, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Jay

Ahh okay that’s good. They’re still eating a ridiculous amount, happy and swimming around. I wonder what stung them tho…weird. Thanks man, appreciate it

 

[dedragon]

That same thing happened when mine tried to host in my elegance coral, they probably just attempted it again without you seeing

Side note- I think these are actually ocellaris and not perculas but doesnt matter, still nice fish.

 

[yanni]

That same thing happened when mine tried to host in my elegance coral, they probably just attempted it again without you seeing

Side note- I think these are actually ocellaris and not perculas but doesnt matter, still nice fish.

Ahh okay, I couldn’t exactly remember the type of clowns they were hahaha. I haven’t had the elegance in the tank for about 1.5 months, this is a new rip cleaned tank haha