Weird white spot on six lime wrasse

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Hello I’ve been sick with Covid and haven’t been able to really keep up with my fish for the past week. I noticed a white pimple on my six line wrasses form a few days ago and today it looks a lot bigger. The only changes I can think of are temperature as we had a really bad heat wave that allowed my tank to go up to 83 for about a day. Can anyone identify what this is? None of my other fish seem to be affected.
Note: I have 2 clowns that are now breeding and have been very aggressive over the past 2 weeks. Unsure if they bit the wrasse.

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It looks to be an injury, probably caused by the clowns (whether directly or indirectly).

It looks like it could be infected. Treatment in a qt would be ideal, but in this case I would just monitor. I would worry about stressing the wrasse and injuring it more trying to catch it.
 

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Hello I’ve been sick with Covid and haven’t been able to really keep up with my fish for the past week. I noticed a white pimple on my six line wrasses form a few days ago and today it looks a lot bigger. The only changes I can think of are temperature as we had a really bad heat wave that allowed my tank to go up to 83 for about a day. Can anyone identify what this is? None of my other fish seem to be affected.
Note: I have 2 clowns that are now breeding and have been very aggressive over the past 2 weeks. Unsure if they bit the wrasse.

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Looks like injury turning bacterial versus disease. Treat with Ruby rally pro within tank or in separate tank - Seachem neoplex being more effective
 

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It looks like injury - or a very odd case of lymphocystis (benign - and should go away) - I would observe for aggression in the tank. If needed - a hospital tank - with a broad spectrum antibiotic would be a good idea
 

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