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[JasonCG]

So I just finished a 10 week fallow period after what I assumed was a bad case of velvet - everything died. Literally went from healthy and spotless to dead almost overnight. After my fallow period I quarantined a beautiful pair of maroon clowns for about 4 weeks, and then Introduced them to my DT about 4 weeks ago. Both have been doing well, getting along, hosted my anemone, eating fine. Today I noticed a single white spot on the forehead of the female. Nothing has changed, behavior is fine, eating like a pig. Params are below, but have been stable and fine for quite a while. I don’t think the single spot is velvet, since that exploded all at once last time. Is this ich? Or maybe just a love bite from the other clown? I also spotted an aiptasia on the rock it likes to hang out under, could it be a bite from that? I hope so, I don’t know if I can handle another loss! Any thoughts, advice, words of encouragement are much appreciated!

Params:
Temp 78-79
pH - 8.1
Salinty - 34.3ppt
Ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - 0
phos - 0.05
alk - 9.74
Ca - 343
mag - 1287

 

[LiveFreeAndReef]

I'd just keep an eye on it in case it gets worse, but she might've just bumped her head on something

 

[jcdeng]

doesn't look like itch to me, itch is like a speck of sugar sticking to the fish's skin, this looks like it grew from underneath the skin...

 

[JasonCG]

I'd just keep an eye on it in case it gets worse, but she might've just bumped her head on something

Thanks, I hope you’re right!

 

[LAReefer4Life]

Keep an eye on it. Most likely not ich, looks too large in the photo.

 

[Jay Hemdal]

So I just finished a 10 week fallow period after what I assumed was a bad case of velvet - everything died. Literally went from healthy and spotless to dead almost overnight. After my fallow period I quarantined a beautiful pair of maroon clowns for about 4 weeks, and then Introduced them to my DT about 4 weeks ago. Both have been doing well, getting along, hosted my anemone, eating fine. Today I noticed a single white spot on the forehead of the female. Nothing has changed, behavior is fine, eating like a pig. Params are below, but have been stable and fine for quite a while. I don’t think the single spot is velvet, since that exploded all at once last time. Is this ich? Or maybe just a love bite from the other clown? I also spotted an aiptasia on the rock it likes to hang out under, could it be a bite from that? I hope so, I don’t know if I can handle another loss! Any thoughts, advice, words of encouragement are much appreciated!

Params:
Temp 78-79
pH - 8.1
Salinty - 34.3ppt
Ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - 0
phos - 0.05
alk - 9.74
Ca - 343
mag - 1287

As the others said, it looks too large to be ich. When you said you "quarantined the pair for four weeks?, what treatments did you use?

Jay