black spots on clownfish

[vetter]

I just purchased a clown fish about 5 days ago and right when I got him he seemed happy and he was never shy. He seemed to be fine untill he started developing small black spots. Im not sure if it's worms or it's a type of ic. Please Help

 

[EDGRAY]

Dont worry about it really is normal on clowns, well i know is kinda of a rash of some kind do you have some zoanthids on your tank ... long time ago i did a search on it and some say is caused by the zoanthids or other softies but nothing for sure just give it time and will be ok, a good thing to do is to dip its food on garlic.

you can get a liquid garlic from ken brand or some garlic from market and smash them and let the garlic sit on a cup of water of your tank for 15min then take out all the garlic leaving just the liquid and add some food and let it sit for 5min then add it to your tank he will get better do that every 2-3days and he will get better.. nothing to worry about really..

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i don't know if someone already answered this but i read that black spots on clowns is pretty normal, it's caused by the clown rubbing against softies like xenias, zoos, etc. since i got my clown she got a massive amount of black spots all over her body and my tank has a lot of zoo colonies. i wouldn't think it's a problem unless the spots are white or the clowns weight and appetite goes down. if your clown is behaving normall i wouldn't really be too concerned :alice

I agree with fenner - these are stress spots not neccesarily "ich", "fungal" or "age" however. In another thread I talked about a similar observation I had with my clowns when I had them in the 12. It was my belief at that time and still is that since my clowns had been in a very large tank before and the 12 had so much rock in it that they just always felt crowded and they developed black spots. Within a week of my JBJ cracking and me moving them to a 20gal the spots went away completely without any treatment of any type and they are doing great again. your fish are stressed by their environmkent and if you do not remove the sresser they will become ill witha parasite like ich and die. in your case the stresser may have been a ammonia spike or your messing with the tank????????????

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