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Unwelcome Hitchers (External Parasites?

April 26, 2017external hitchers parasites unwelcome

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Unwelcome Hitchers (External Parasites?

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Hello everyone. Hope all is well today. If I may, I’d like to get your help IDing a problem a few of my fish are having. I noticed a few days ago that my Tomato Clown had a small, flat, almost translucent disk shaped spot on it body, right behind the side fin so not near its gill. It’s actually left a mark on its fin as well, maybe an irritation mark? It looked like it was not fully attached, maybe only at one point. Now he has a few more, one is underneath his body and I can tell it is definitely not fully attached because it’s vertical to its body and the bottom of it moves back and forth with him swimming/current. The fish’s body on one side only also shows some signs of like puckering marks or scar type marks that are a little darker than his body but I think he always has these marks and not sure if its related to these parasite-type things he has now – not lateral line disease. I did some research on your site/web looking up parasites bu