Black spots on clowns

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I’m seeing these black spots on both of my clowns. I believe these popped up really quickly in the last day.

Reading some other posts, it looks like this can be coral stings or it could be black ich. I do have a frogspawn in the tank, although I’ve never seen either clown go anywhere near it. I did add a new BTA last week that both clowns began to host very quickly. I have seen the larger snowflake clown flashing on the sand a couple of times today.

This tank is 70 gallons total with a 50g display tank. It has 2 BTAs, an RFA, various zoanthids, a small colony of blastomussas, the frogspawn, and a chalice. Other fish are a yellow diamond goby, tailspot blenny, and an orange spotted filefish. I feed mysis, pellets, and masstick for the filefish. Parameters have been pretty stable with PO4 around .1-.2, no3 around 2-5, dkh ~9. Mg and calcium are in the pocket.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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I’m seeing these black spots on both of my clowns. I believe these popped up really quickly in the last day.

Reading some other posts, it looks like this can be coral stings or it could be black ich. I do have a frogspawn in the tank, although I’ve never seen either clown go anywhere near it. I did add a new BTA last week that both clowns began to host very quickly. I have seen the larger snowflake clown flashing on the sand a couple of times today.

This tank is 70 gallons total with a 50g display tank. It has 2 BTAs, an RFA, various zoanthids, a small colony of blastomussas, the frogspawn, and a chalice. Other fish are a yellow diamond goby, tailspot blenny, and an orange spotted filefish. I feed mysis, pellets, and masstick for the filefish. Parameters have been pretty stable with PO4 around .1-.2, no3 around 2-5, dkh ~9. Mg and calcium are in the pocket.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Known as hyper-melanization may have come from coral sting such as anemone or other coral such as hammer, torch or similar. Mine got stung by elegance coral. You dont need to treat with anything as it will self heal and allowing the clown to become accustomed to the sting from host
 
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Known as hyper-melanization may have come from coral sting such as anemone or other coral such as hammer, torch or similar. Mine got stung by elegance coral. You dont need to treat with anything as it will self heal and allowing the clown to become accustomed to the sting from host
Thank you, that’s what it looks like to me as well, the affirmation is good to hear.
 

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