Can fish bruise themselves on live rock?

ClaptonsGhost

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I have a juvenile blue face angel (with adult coloration. Looks really cool). The Queen Angel gave him hell at first, but he's a trooper and kept on eating and swimming, mostly among the rock to avoid detection. Once in a while he would come out and the Queen would go after him and he'd dart into the rock work. It's at the point now where he can easily out think the Queen and get away without too much effort and he's pretty much free to move about the cabin, so to speak, unimpeded. However, he does seem to have some bruises on his body which look like something he could have picked up scraping against the live rock too carelessly.

Is this a possible explanation? He shows no signs of illness, other than stress caused cauliflower on his pectoral fin from before, which is slowly going away on its own.
 

ClaptonsGhost

Active Member
ok, thanks for the info. It's been more than a day, though. Further inspection tells me it might be a non-lethal fungus that I can treat in tank. Cheers.
 
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