Woke up this morning to spots on Hippo Tang. Please Help

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I woke up this morning and found that my blue hippo tang has a spot on his side. I can't tell if it's a parasite, infection, or battle scar (the only fish that might be able to do that are my clowns and a foxface but the foxface usually just shows spikes not biting) I don't see any aggression in the tank this morning. Everyone seems to be cohabitating peacefully.

Stock list:
Hippo Tang (4ish inches)
Magnificient foxface many 4.5 inches
2 clowns 1.5inches and 1 inches
mandarin
tuxedo urchin
cleaner shrimp
snails, crabs
Coral: trumpet, monti, goni, mushroom, acro (newly added), lepto

Parameters:
temp: 79
ph: 8.02
Alk: 9.39
calc: 445
mag: 1341
nitrate: 13.8
phosphate: 0.09

The only thing added to the tank in the last couple months are a few sps coral frags. That was about a week ago. Last water change was on Friday (6/21). How worried about this should I be. As I'm sitting here it looks like the spot might be a little more faded into the natural skin tone of the fish.

I just want my fish to be fat, happy and healthy!

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Can you try and get some clear close ups and a 30 second video?
 
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Video the spot is visible pretty well at 3 seconds
 

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Seems as through there could be some aggression going on between the 2 fish. Might be time for that tank upgrade you had mentioned in previous post.
 

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Video the spot is visible pretty well at 3 seconds
hate to ask - but really need to see fish under bright white light intensity. This is blue on blue making it hard to see
 

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From what I can see, it looks like a minor injury. At least it isn’t ich or flukes.
 

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