Clowns getting black burns

are you sure they are burns, it may be a bacterial type infection. How do they look otherwise, eating good, and how are the other fish?

 

Mine have black dots on them as well they come and go. But they never touch my nem. I know that they like to rub on my zoas.

 

I wouldn't worry too much. My snowflakes get them every once in a while but they go away. I haven't seen any on my tomatoes that host in an actual 'nem. The snowflakes live in duncans.

 

Yea the black spots fade as far as I have seen on my clowns

 

Mine would root around in an Armor of God colony and the got those spots. It never seemed to effect them.

 

Not sure. But their belly turned almost all black from it, because they kept doing it. Must not have bothered them.

 

My son had clowns that got spots from hosting in corals, his was frogspawn. After he added an anemone to the tank and they started hosting in it the spots went away and did not come back.

 

Don't know how far away you are but I have a RBTA in my sump you can have. Should fix the problem if you still concerned about it.

 

Yea probably not a good idea.

 

My clowns have black on there back but that is from maturity

 

I moved from T5 lighting to LED, My clowns have very similar things. I think of it like a dark tan from the lighting? Had them for 2+ years under the LEDS and they are loving life. At least from what I can visually see.

 

all my clowns get burns they just come and go i have been putting garlic in my food a lot more they havent had burns for six months in december

 

I have a clown that was sold to me as a "picasso" it looks like a mix of something else. I got it when it was pretty small and it was mostly orange and white, very little black. After several months its started to get more black, started as spots but has turned to more patchy. Have been wondering what it could be. Active, eats and has started to look like its paired with a black snowflake and possibly getting ready to spawn. I keep new nems in cups until they are adjusted to the system. When the lights start to dim at night they swim in and out of one of the cups, sometimes one then the other, other times both at the same time. Its a rfa in the cup so they arent trying to host, unless they are and the nem isnt having it.