Kole tang bitten by brooding clowns or something else.

[Nburg's Reef]

Seems my fish get weird scrapes coincidentally when my clown fish have eggs (but they always have eggs sp who knows.) I had a suspicion it was them them but this might be the proof. What do you think?

Notice upper and lower jaw looking marks.

 

[HotRocks]

Definitely looks like a bite. I would just keep an eye on it and make sure it heals up on its own.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

Definitely looks like a bite. I would just keep an eye on it and make sure it heals up on its own.

Of course I leave for a 3 night trip tomorrow morning, but I am confident he'll be fine. The kole is otherwise very healthy and and he recovered pretty quick the last time I noticed similar scrapes. Hopefully the other fish will learn there should be a 10" no swim zone around those clown eggs.

 

[Deinonych]

He will be fine. My female clown loves to take bites of my Kole whenever he gets near her corner. Looks exactly like the picture, and usually heals after a few days.

 

[drstardust]

Yup, looks like a chomp. Should heal on its own.

 

[4FordFamily]

Agree the fish will likely heal up just fine

 

[Huff747]

I second what everybody else is saying. I'd say about once a month my Kole forgets that the clowns like the area by the anemones and takes a shot from her that looks exactly like that. Always heals up fine and then next month it'll forget again.