Jawfish/Chromis Issue

emilyluvscatz

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Hey guys, I'm definitely not new to owning an aquarium, but have recently discovered that one of my yellow headed jawfish and green chromis have developed open sores. I added two jawfish roughly two weeks ago and my tank seemed very happy and healthy. However, today I found both my jawfish in the back of my 32 gallon biocube sump. I know they are notorious jumpers and was not worried. They quickly swam into a net, were added back into the main tank and were doing fine. I just fed the tank and saw that one of my jawfish was gasping at the bottom with a sore near his fin and his tail was chewed. My chromis also developed an open sore near his fine at about the same time. I've been doing my research online and have found nothing to explain this. Fish in the tank currently are: paired blood orange clowns, two green chromis, two yellow headed jawfish, peppermint shrimp, two bubble tip anemone, and multiple SPS. The water parameters are fantastic, everyone has been eating, and all fish seem to have found their own specific territories. I also recently did an appropriate dosage of fluconazole to treat a small amount of bubble algae that has occurred. Any idea of what this is, how to treat it, and why it happened?
 
Its a small tank. Clowns can be agressive and territorial and may be picking on the jawfish and damsel. I had 2 fiji tomato clowns that ran a 40B then the 75g I upgraded to later.
 
Its a small tank. Clowns can be agressive and territorial and may be picking on the jawfish and damsel. I had 2 fiji tomato clowns that ran a 40B then the 75g I upgraded to later.
My clowns and damsels grew up together in a 75 they haven't had any issues for 6 years. I'm worried that the jawfish have caused this aggression. Any suggestions? I dont have a quarantine tank set anymore.
 

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