White mouth Clownfish

[hhn4334]

my black misbar clownfish started developing a white bottom lip. jw if i should worry or not. he doesnt act any different. it pretty much looks like an extended under bite for a fish.

kind of hard to see but hopefully you get the idea

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[ntl555]

He's cheesing in the second picture LoL!!!!

how long have you had the fish?

 

[hhn4334]

I've had it about a little over 2 months

 

[melev]

Watch to see what it is biting on. It may even be fighing with another fish, mouth-to-mouth.

 

[hhn4334]

As far as I see, he doesnt bite onto anything that would cause any damage, my orange ocellaris chases it sometimes but i don't ever see them bite each other mouth to mouth

 

[hhn4334]

looks like its getting worse.. the white portion got bigger and looks like a beard on the black clownfish. HELP!

he hasnt acted any different though, still eating normally. just swollen

 

[melev]

Maybe Matt would know what to do. Can you post a new picture?

 

[hhn4334]

I will post one up first thing tmrw morning!

 

[hhn4334]

Ok it got a little better yesterday, but when i checked it today, the white is bigger and more swollen!!

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could it be some fungus???

 

[hhn4334]

ok, something weird just happened, i went ahead and fed them for today, and now the white stuff is gone??

 

[melev]

There is something called Lymphocystis, but since I couldn't see it clearly enough, I couldn't say for sure. It's commonly called clownfish disease. They get it, then it drops off of them all of a sudden. OR you take the clownfish out of the tank and carefully pluck it off them with tweezers. I had to do that once, and I think I was more scared than my poor little fish. He was fine thereafter.