Dark spots on clown

[J Rog]

The other day I started noticing one of my clowns starting to get little dark blotches on his or her skin.. Do we know what this is?

 

[Big G]

Is the fish kept with corals or BTAs? Sometimes they get stung and leave those marks.

 

[J Rog]

Is the fish kept with corals or BTAs? Sometimes they get stung and leave those marks.

No BTA. Just a torch, rock nem, and a couple of zoas at the moment. It’s a new tank (finished the cycle around Halloween..

 

[captc07]

I have heard that zoas can do that to clowns.

 

[Maritimer]

If she's tried to guest in the torch, as they will sometimes, she could collect some of that hypermelanization as a result of torch-stings. (Torch-burns? (>__<))

They're not uncommon, or particularly threatening - just keep an eye on her.

~Bruce

 

[4FordFamily]

If she's tried to guest in the torch, as they will sometimes, she could collect some of that hypermelanization as a result of torch-stings. (Torch-burns? (>__<))

They're not uncommon, or particularly threatening - just keep an eye on her.

~Bruce

Agreed.

 

[J Rog]

If she's tried to guest in the torch, as they will sometimes, she could collect some of that hypermelanization as a result of torch-stings. (Torch-burns? (>__<))

They're not uncommon, or particularly threatening - just keep an eye on her.

~Bruce

Thanks! I haven’t seen her try. Although on my old set up I had a pair of clowns that hosted a gold torch. Never saw any stings on them but these clowns are smaller and much younger then those were so maybe the olds ones built up a tolerance possibly..