Help with clownfish!

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Hi new to The Forum looking for a little help. I recently purchased 2 clownfish. Little background on the tank/ fish. The tank has been up for about 2.5 months or more. About two-and-a-half to three weeks ago I bought a six-line wrasse as my first fish. She has been doing great no problems whatsoever. Nutrients are very low ammonia test zero on red seat kit. So I've always wanted to clownfish so I thought it was time. One of the clownfish was in a tank all by itself. the other was in a tank with 5 to 6 others of same species. It was one of the smaller ones in that tank. I got them home set them up and put them in the tank. I noticed the one that was in the tank with other clowns had a few small (nip?) marks on it's back and lower fin. I thought nothing of it at first thought it was just aggression between the clowns in that tank. So I've been keeping a close eye on it and it seems to have lost a bit more of it tail in the last couple of days. all the fish are eating well and seem to be getting along fine a few head butts but other than that nothing. I'm posting a link to a video. Just looking for other people's advice hoping it's not a disease like fin rot or anything of that nature.




Any help/ advice would be appreciated thank you.
 
Welcome to Reef2Reef, Conmuffin - I'm sorry that your first post wound up being about a possibly ill fish!

That _could_ be a bacterial issue starting up, and bears watching. If it is, you'd want to treat it with antibiotics in a quarantine situation, but first (and this is important!), d'you see that fellow "Humblefish" who posted just before I did? Listen to him. Listen well, for he's probably forgotten more than I'll ever know about aquatic diseases.

~Bruce
 
The wrasse is slightly aggressive- it will charge at the clowns when they go near his area under the rock but i have never seen it bite them. I think the clowns have paired or at least the injured clown is doing the wiggle next to the other- initial thought was that the other clown bit him to show dominance.

Thanks for all the advice, i am going to start with the vitamins
 
agreed with the vitamins. That does look a bit like a bite taken out of his tail.
 

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