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I noticed today that my GSP has one white spot on his dorsal fin, and two white spots on one of his pectoral fins. These spots don't look like Ich, and they're bigger than the typical Ich white spot that would cover the whole fish. He/she only has these three spots on his/her two fins. When I first bought him, I noticed he had the two on his pectoral fin, but they quickly went away and I didn't worry about it. Now, 3 weeks later the two spots came back, along with the one on his dorsal fin. What kind of parasite could this be? Like I said, the white spots are bigger than an Ich, and seem to stick out more than an Ich would. He/she is in marine water. Everything else in the aquarium is fine ( 0 nitrAte 0 nitrIte 0 ammonia PH=8). Maybe hook worm? The three spots aren't bothering him and he's not flashing or darting around the tank. Anyone know?

Can you take a picture?

I'll try!

Okay here is the best picture I could get. I was in a hurry and Buttons just doesn't stay still. You can make out the size of the white dot at least.

Annabelle had something like that on her fin. It went away by itself.
Does it look something like this:

Yeah that's it. I did notice they seem to appear and disappear pretty fast. What is it?

edmlfc1, how did you hold your puffer like that without her puffing?

Well, its definately not ich, unless that puffer is smaller than a pencil eraser

Its probably some sort of cyst... I suppose there's a chance its some sort of parasite but I've never seen anything like that when researching them before.

When I originally posted the picture I was also told it was a cyst that would go away on it's on. Just like Myaj said. Nothing to worry about. It probally took about 5 days for it to completely disappear. I noticed that my stars puffer gets them also. I don't know what causes it.

She is a very calm fahaka puffer for some reason. I kept her head under water while taking the picture. And I tried to go as fast as I could, then I let her go. I told her it was to help other puffers and she was ok with that.

probably a bit of sand irritating the skin. you know, kinda like how we get zits irritation and inflammation of certain pores. just in fish, they don't have pores, but stuff still irritates it

edmlfc1 wrote:She is a very calm fahaka puffer for some reason. I kept her head under water while taking the picture. And I tried to go as fast as I could, then I let her go. I told her it was to help other puffers and she was ok with that.

Wow. She didn'st start puffing? My fahaka would bite my head off!

Okay, enough derailing from me

I'm glad to hear it's probably just a zit, maybe Buttons needs some Proactiv? Haha! Thanks for the help!