Royal Gramma Injury

DaniG275 · Dec 5, 2020

I cannot tell if my Royal gramma is damaging his scales in the rocks or he’s been hit by the BTA. He seems to be acting fine, eating and darts in and out of the rocks. But I feel bad for the little guy. Anything we can do for him?

Jay Hemdal · Dec 5, 2020

Welcome to Reef2Reef!

That could be from the anemone, but it isn't from running into rocks, grammas are good at swimming around rocks without getting injured.
How long have you had this fish?
Jay

JGT · Dec 5, 2020

Won’t be from rocks. Could be anemone or could be disease. Is anything on the other side of his body?

DaniG275 · Dec 5, 2020

Jay Hemdal said:
Welcome to Reef2Reef!

That could be from the anemone, but it isn't from running into rocks, grammas are good at swimming around rocks without getting injured.
How long have you had this fish?
Jay

We’ve had him about 2 weeks in this tank. We have two bigger clowns, but they are the most docile clowns I’ve seen, they swim with the gramma and don’t bother him during feeding,?so I don’t believe they have been nipping him.

DaniG275 · Dec 5, 2020

JGT said:
Won’t be from rocks. Could be anemone or could be disease. Is anything on the other side of his body?

Just the top of his head the other side is clear. I feel like just today the top of his head was pink in color and now it’s more this white color. Could he have gotten stung again?

Jay Hemdal · Dec 5, 2020

DaniG275 said:
We’ve had him about 2 weeks in this tank. We have two bigger clowns, but they are the most docile clowns I’ve seen, they swim with the gramma and don’t bother him during feeding,?so I don’t believe they have been nipping him.

No, the clowns would nip his tail if they were being aggressive. Hopefully this is just from tangling with the anemone, but it could be a generalized bacterial infection. The fish's normal behavior mostly rules out protozoan infections.

Jay

JGT · Dec 5, 2020

DaniG275 said:
Just the top of his head the other side is clear. I feel like just today the top of his head was pink in color and now it’s more this white color. Could he have gotten stung again?

Might be a bacterial infection. Since it’ll be tough to catch him and treat in a QT, I would just keep an eye on him.