"Chris Gentry" wrote in message
news:gTGXd.110202$4q6.67509@attbi_s01...
Hi,
I have a false percula clownfish that I bought about a week ago. It
appears to be doing fine, and is very active, but just after I bought it,
I
noticed a large white spot on its side. It looks like a large grain of
sugar. I've watched it really close, and it hasn't seemed to grow, and no
others have appeared, so I didn't know if this was ok? Does anyone know
what this might be? Or if I can try to remove it? Thanks -Chris


Update:
Well so far there is still only one white spot, but it has grown just
slightly. I'm still a little worried. The fish appears to be very
active,however, and it has been feeding regularly. There is no sign of
clamped fins or anything like that.

My water parameters are a little off in the nitrate department (around
15ppm), and I have a nice growth of GHA. Could this maybe be stressing the
fish out? I've done a few partial water changes to bring the nitrates down,
but it doesn't last long.

I had the tank up for approx. 3 months with nothing but 3 blue-legged
hermits in it. Then I moved it (and disturbed the DSB, and got the LR cold
{approx. 55F}) From there I left it up 1 month and then took a sample in
for my LFS to test. Everything checked out ok, so I added a small piece of
Green star polyps, and a few purple mushrooms. I also added a mated pair of
ocellaris clowns. Shortly thereafter I got a bad outbreak of diatoms. So I
put some phosban in the canister filter (running with no floss media, just
for water flow mainly, and a place to put carbon if needed) and the diatoms
cleared up. about a week later GHA started, and I haven't been able to get
rid of it since. My light period is on for 12 hours a day.