Weird ... any ideas?

Newstead · 12/20/2015, 04:47 PM

Female clown, 3.5 years old
Had red lump over left nostril last week or so then this clear bubble appeared over it (she had the same lump in the exact same spot in July. It disappeared within 2 weeks.)
No other symptoms on her or her mate. No other fish or inverts in tank other than a few snails and microstars. Soft corals and some LPS.
Tank perimeters same as always, everything in normal ranges per Salifert tests. Nitrates have run 25 since adding a sun coral in August

Any ideas welcomed! Please click on thumbnail to enlarge.

Newstead · 12/20/2015, 04:50 PM

Another shot.

Dkuhlmann · 12/20/2015, 06:18 PM

I've never seen them blow bubbles out of their nose before. It actually looks like a water drop dried on the tank glass.

Why did you delete the other shot?

Newstead · 12/20/2015, 07:12 PM

I don't know why that one didn't attach. The bubble has been there since this morning, so I am thinking cyst of some type?

CafeReef · 12/20/2015, 11:16 PM

Rudolf the clear nosed clown? Tis the season right?

Bent · 12/21/2015, 07:38 AM

That looks to me like the start of HLLE.

Edit:
I did not mean for that to rhyme.

Newstead · 12/21/2015, 11:49 AM

Rudolph or HLLe ... hoping for the Rudolph nose. Will research hlle in clowns. Kept hoping it would do the same as it did in late July/early August, but in checking my tank notes I see it has been almost a month this time. Just cannot find anything that looks like that blister!

12/20/2015, 04:50 PM	#2
Newstead Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 80	Another shot. Last edited by Newstead; 12/20/2015 at 05:00 PM.

12/20/2015, 06:18 PM	#3
Dkuhlmann Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: NW Iowa Posts: 8,823	I've never seen them blow bubbles out of their nose before. It actually looks like a water drop dried on the tank glass. Why did you delete the other shot? __________________ Previous tanks: 200 gal fowlr 9" Emperor Angel and many different butterfly fish 4" maroon clown and several other fish, 50 gal sump, 40 gal mixed reef/fish mostly softies and LPS. Current Tank Info: 40b 750 gph 45 lbs lr, 2"-3" sand, 165w full spectrum dimable LED, 20 gal sump/refugium 30 lbs lr, Bak Pak 2 skimmer, 4" sock temp 79-80, sg 1.026, NH3 0, NO2 0, NO3 <10, ph 8.2, calc 400, mag 1300

12/20/2015, 11:16 PM	#5
CafeReef Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Elkhorn, NE Posts: 1,405	Rudolf the clear nosed clown? Tis the season right? __________________ 50 Gallon cube

12/21/2015, 07:38 AM	#6
Bent I got nothin' Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The anals Posts: 6,420	That looks to me like the start of HLLE. Edit: I did not mean for that to rhyme. __________________ Quitters never lose. [QUOTE=CStrickland]Who gets mad at a starfish?[/QUOTE] Current Tank Info: 75g DT, 30G refugium, 10g chaeto tank, 50g stock tank basement sump

12/21/2015, 11:49 AM	#7
Newstead Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 80	Rudolph or HLLe ... hoping for the Rudolph nose. Will research hlle in clowns. Kept hoping it would do the same as it did in late July/early August, but in checking my tank notes I see it has been almost a month this time. Just cannot find anything that looks like that blister!