Sunday my wife noticed a big black spot on the Foxface. I did notice a mat spot on his body, I think in the same place as the black spot is now. Might be something of a bite mark or something, it looks a bit like lip marks.
Going to see if I can find out what it is and if I need to worry about it.
Monday the spot seemed to be more mat again, not much black visible anymore. So far the only results I got from the forums was from someone saying it might be blackspot. Done some reading about this disease, but the foxface doesn’t show any of the symptoms. He doesn’t scrape against rocks or go to the cleaner shrimp to get rid of the parasite and he eats fine. Examples of black spot I saw where all small spots, size of a grain of salt, while this spot is a lot bigger.
One thing I did notice about his behaviour is that he now sits more often in camouflage mode (white colours and spikes up).
Wednesday the whole blackness around the spot was gone, only a mat spot remained. Another suggestion I found was that it might be a sting spot, maybe from the anemone. The behaviour of the Foxface is back to normal again now, no more stressing around. I will keep it at this for now, the sting does sound like a good explanation for its behaviour.
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