Two spot tang injury?

[Fifty8reef]

Hi guys!
Just this morning I noticed this on my fish. Does it look like a scratch to you guys or some type of outbreak?

 

[Texas Reefer]

I think it looks like another fish bit him. What other fish do you have?

 

[Fifty8reef]

I think it looks like another fish bit him. What other fish do you have?

I was thinking that maybe it was my starry blenny they were going back and forth a few minutes ago. I have a flame angel, pair of blackhawk picasso, royal gramma, Shanghai cardinal, and a blue chromis

 

[Humblefish]

Looks more like a nem or coral sting to me. Like he brushed up against something.

 

[Fifty8reef]

Looks more like a nem or coral sting to me. Like he brushed up against something.

Could be possible. I do have a bubble tip and carpet anemone. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't any type of diseases

 

[Humblefish]

Could be possible. I do have a bubble tip and carpet anemone. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't any type of diseases

The carpet nem would be the most likely suspect. You are going to lose some fish to that thing.

 

[Fifty8reef]

The carpet nem would be the most likely suspect. You are going to lose some fish to that thing.

Thanks I was told I would be fine since it was a mini carpet anemone. Looks like I have to set up another tank to put it in

 

[Humblefish]

Thanks I was told I would be fine since it was a mini carpet anemone. Looks like I have to set up another tank to put it in

Ah, I thought it was a gig or haddoni. Those are more dangerous when mixed with fish. Not sure how bad of a fish eater a tapetum can be, but I bet @Bob Loblaw would know.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Looks similar to a nem sting but placement and shape points to the Blenny. Tapetums don't pack the punch of their hosting cousins but still pose a threat to smaller and/or weakened fish.

 

[Fifty8reef]

Looks similar to a nem sting but placement and shape points to the Blenny. Tapetums don't pack the punch of their hosting cousins but still pose a threat to smaller and/or weakened fish.

Thanks so much. I thought blenny because it looked like marks that were in the glass from it eating algae. They seem to be fine now so I'll just monitor them both

 

[Maritimer]

Bristletooth tangs and starry blennies don't seem to get along real well ... they view each other as competition for the same algae resource. It may take a while for those two to fully accept one another.

~Bruce

 

[4FordFamily]

I agree it looks like an injury but not a sting, in my experience— although anything is possible.

 

[Fifty8reef]

I agree it looks like an injury but not a sting, in my experience— although anything is possible.

That's what I was thinking as well. Especially since it didn't affect how he attacks algae. Now it's just getting him to eat nori sheets

 

[Fifty8reef]

Bristletooth tangs and starry blennies don't seem to get along real well ... they view each other as competition for the same algae resource. It may take a while for those two to fully accept one another.

~Bruce

The more I read up on it I seen that. Except it was the other way around. I think maybe because my blennie was in first he was the aggressor. They tang picked at him a bit the next day. Now they seem to ignore each other