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Clownfish Black Spots

Signs of this disease are black spots caused by embedded flatworms in the skin and fins of affected fish.

Clownfish black spots. Hello last sunday i noticed a single black spot on my orange clownfish and didnt think much of it. To the scales of the fish. No other fish including three other clowns is showing these black spots.

Fish gets eaten most likely by a bird. The dark spots are reactions from coming into contact with an anemone or stinging coral. What you need to know.

Someone mentioned black ick but i find that hard to believe after looking up the life cycle of that parasite and seeing no other fish with these symptoms liver of a snail. 1 it is most closely and commonly associated with subfamily amphiprioninae clownfish members of the damselfish family and therefore is typically referred to as clownfish disease. Soon after he was added to my tank i started to notice these little black spots on his body.

He has never had more than 2 3 at a time but the weird thing is that they seem to appear on one part of his body disappear then reappear somewhere else a little bit later. Black ich black spot or tang disease. Small black smudges larger than black ich turbellarians typically found on clownfish.

Today 4 days later there are a lot more black spots all over him and my other clownfish hes black and white so its harder to notice. This is more of a condition than a disease. I have had my clownfish for about 3 months.

Infected bird poop returns to the water to be eaten by snails.