Help!!!! I don’t know what’s wrong with my clown fish!

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Hey everyone, I have a 160 gallon tank and have been in the hoppy for a little over a year. Last week I noticed part of both my clown fishes skin almost peeling off. Can someone please help me, I don’t know what to do or what it is.

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Hey everyone, I have a 160 gallon tank and have been in the hoppy for a little over a year. Last week I noticed part of both my clown fishes skin almost peeling off. Can someone please help me, I don’t know what to do or what it is.

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This appears to be a bite in which the larger clown would do nbut brighter pics will help confirm
Have you noticed aggression with them?
Often the larger being female will be an aggressor and also take over an anemone, claim an area of tank and hog all the food
 
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This appears to be a bite in which the larger clown would do nbut brighter pics will help confirm
Have you noticed aggression with them?
Often the larger being female will be an aggressor and also take over an anemone, claim an area of tank and hog all the food
I have noticed that but the weird thing is the female clown also has a mark where you can see the flesh to
 

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You can see there flesh and I am starting to get extremely worried
I’m struggling to get a clear view of this. Are the clowns showing any other symptoms?

Take a look at the pictures in this thread, do you clowns look like this?

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I’m struggling to get a clear view of this. Are the clowns showing any other symptoms?

Take a look at the pictures in this thread, do you clowns look like this?

Jay
They look like that but deeper and more series, I can’t get better pics till tomorrow but I will post them when I do.
 

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They don’t have symptoms and haven’t gotten a new fish or anything like that in over 6 months, at this point I really don’t know what to do.
Forget pics - Please post a you tube video under white light intensity of at least 20-25 seconds
 

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It seems like injury. Agree with a video. The fact that you haven't added anything - and the fact that your anemones etc are doing well - suggests a fight - or a non-parasitic illness. Were the fish ever quarantined
 
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It seems like injury. Agree with a video. The fact that you haven't added anything - and the fact that your anemones etc are doing well - suggests a fight - or a non-parasitic illness. Were the fish ever quarantined
The fish have been in my tank for close to 3 years, all my fish are quarantined.
 

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