The Puffer Forum

OK, to dispense with the usual: 29 gallon BW tank at 1.005, up and running for over a year, 3 fish (figure 8, mollie, knight goby), ammonia 0, nitirite 0, nitrates 7.5 (5 on the FW test, 10 on the SW test), temp is 77.

The puffer has been in the tank over a year, the mollie was added about 4 months ago, and the knight goby was added a little over a month ago. The puffer and the mollie are fine.

The knight goby, though, has what almost appears to be three ich spots on his fins. Granted, maybe they've been there the entire time and I hadn't noticed them (he does hide a lot and runs when he sees me) but I'm not sure they were there before.

So, is it possible to develop ich at a SG of 1.005? The goby is low fish on the totem pole, so stress could be a factor...but this is my first BW tank so I don't know if it's even possible to develop ich if he didn't come in with it (he was in quarintine for 2 weeks and I honestly can't recall any spots back then.

If ich is a possibility, should I crank up the heat and water change/vacuum daily or should I just wait and see if any more spots develop before forcing the other two fish to go through a heat wave?

Thanks,

Eric

I'd wait & observe.

Thanks. That's what I was thinking, too.

Things like this never happen during normal weeks - I'll be out of town starting Wednesday morning, home Thursday evening, then gone until Sunday. Hopefully if it is ich, it'll progress slowly in the BW.

Eric