Can this be ick?
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Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Legend Of Zero
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Can this be ick?
I had my ninja puffer for two weeks now and a white spot start to appear on his lower anal fin, in addition to the white spot on his fin there is a white dot sticking out of his back like a parasite. Could this be ick or some kind of parasite?
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Re: Can this be ick?
I saw the same thing on my Mbu and I treated the water with aquarium salt and it disapeared
I'm not sure if you do the same with marine aquariums as they already have marine salt in them?!
I'm not sure if you do the same with marine aquariums as they already have marine salt in them?!
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Legend Of Zero
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Re: Can this be ick?
Thanks for the fast reply. Since my tank have normal salt in it, I just wonder if I can add aquarium salt in as well.
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Re: Can this be ick?
At this point, I'd just watch it to see if more appear or if it grows. Sometimes puffers get an infected spine.. even on the species you don't normally see all their little "spikes" they are still there, and sometimes one gets irritated, kind of like an ingrown hair.
That would be my guess at this point, since it seems a little large for ich, and usually there's a scattering of the white dots, not just one.
Keep the water clean, maybe some melafix, and watch for more to show up or it to get worse/better.
That would be my guess at this point, since it seems a little large for ich, and usually there's a scattering of the white dots, not just one.
Keep the water clean, maybe some melafix, and watch for more to show up or it to get worse/better.
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Legend Of Zero
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Re: Can this be ick?
OK, I changed 25% of the water yesterday and add some aquarium salt in it and the white dot on my puffer fish is gone. However the white circle white spot on his lower anal fin that I mentioned now have a white string sticking out of it. I guess this is a parasite? Can I use coppersafe to treat it?
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Re: Can this be ick?
Good point. I would stick with the aquarium salt and keep a close eye on it.Myaj wrote: That would be my guess at this point, since it seems a little large for ich, and usually there's a scattering of the white dots, not just one.
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Legend Of Zero
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Re: Can this be ick?
I should wait to see if the salt get rid of the parasite?
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Re: Can this be ick?
The thing on his fin I'm not too sure about... it might be an anchor worm but I don't have any experience with those and not sure how you'd treat a puffer for it (have to be careful with puffers and medications).
Hopefully someone else has a suggestion for you.
Hopefully someone else has a suggestion for you.