What is happening to my YWG?

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The guy developed this white spot a couple of days ago. It seems to be slowly getting worse, but he's still eating.

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Cant really tell from your photo but my YWG (who is about 10 years old) changed from bright yellow to a grayish white a couple of years ago. The color change seems to be permanent.
 
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Cant really tell from your photo but my YWG (who is about 10 years old) changed from bright yellow to a grayish white a couple of years ago. The color change seems to be permanent.
Thanks for the reply! My guy is a couple of months old, so I don't think it's that :(
 

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My Yellow Watchmen will sometimes turn bone white and stay that way for a while. Its not "hey is he white or yellow" he goes white white. Hours to a day later he is yellow again. Not sure if its stress or what but he has done it about 4 times in a almost a year
 

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Females turn white to grey as they sexually mature. Google female yellow watchman goby. Mine did and started blotchy like that. Unfortunately I lost her due to an unrelated bacterial infection a few months later that ate a hole to her spine.
 

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I suck at this, but it looks like a bacterial infection to me. @Flippers4pups take a look please
Could be. Mine died a few months later from one. They are kind of common in the ywg, at least common enough to find if you search for goby with hole in it. All pitch I can find if it though has the hole at the dorsal fin, almost like an organ that fails and rots our.
 
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My Yellow Watchmen will sometimes turn bone white and stay that way for a while. Its not "hey is he white or yellow" he goes white white. Hours to a day later he is yellow again. Not sure if its stress or what but he has done it about 4 times in a almost a year
Does he turn all white or in patches?
 
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Females turn white to grey as they sexually mature. Google female yellow watchman goby. Mine did and started blotchy like that. Unfortunately I lost her due to an unrelated bacterial infection a few months later that ate a hole to her spine.

Wow, I've never heard about this before. I'll check it out, thanks!
 

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I agree, because it’s so localized and drastic.

This would be best treated in a quarantine with kanaplex, metroplex, and furan 2 for 10-14 days.
 

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