Flame Angel Gill Spike

[ben0u]

Hoping to get some advice recently noticed that my beautiful flame angel had like a weird white growth near his Gill when I took him out of the water I realised that it was his gill spike is this something that can be cut off or removed or be left as he is

He currently is in a quarantine tank happy and healthy strong appetite and no signs of any disease at this stage so it was about a week away from going into my display tank

 

[Frey]

Just leave it. Most dwarf angels i have had have them. But be careful if netting they can get caught. I like to use specimen containers instead of nets for this reason among others.

 

[Andrew9909]

I would leave it as well.

 

[theMeat]

Most angels have em. Sometimes cheek spikes too. Be careful with nets

 

[fixmdude]

This was helpful. My first time having a flame angel so I thought it was a parasite but my cleaner wrasse wasn’t getting it off so I ran a search. Thx