Maroon clown skin peeling?

i have a gold striped maroon clown who is hosting a bubble coral and recently his skin is peeling underneath his mouth, is the bubble coral stinging him or is it a disease of some sort? He has been hosting this bubble coral now for about six months and i have not seen any other problems, but i only noticed recently that he seems to "clean" the coral with his mouth. Any ideas?



thanks


Peter

 

It looks like it has an open wound. Did it get injured some how? You might want to consider placing it in a QT tank and treating with a broad spectrum antibiotic if it looks like a wound and is progressively getting worse. The other possibility is that the fish has Brooklynellosis! Check out this site.
BrooklynellosisArt

 

A lot of times clowns will clean rocks and coral scuffing their mouth. They can also get pretty aggressive about fanning sand away with their fins. I have a 4-5 inch sandbed and most of my clowns have fanned out the sand to make a hole that goes all the way to the bottom glass. They will scuff their bodies up by doing this behavior too. I just looked at the pic and that looks pretty bad. Is it just the one clown? or do you have a pair? I can tell you, the clown in the pic is a female...By the dark color and the color and size of the bands. I hope she gets better for ya. Mine gets that same white stuff on her side quite frequently but never that bad. Gl

 

this is the only clown in the tank, and i don't think the clown got injured at all atleast not from other fish, the clown is the boss of the tank, I have never seen the clown fight with other fish she only chases the Damsels away if they get to cloes to her territory

Peter

 

pretty nasty.

I would go with Ravens advise and medicate pronto, that is a fairly deep would.

 

thanks for the responce everyone i'll medicate as soon as i can

Peter