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I know very little about this type of disease. A few months ago when I thought my Puffer had an ich outbreak I treated him in Hypo for over 4 weeks. The white dots never dissapeared. After the hypo treatment they suddenly began to go away. I started leaning towards the idea that it was not ich but something different that had to do with the overall quality of the water. He has began getting white spots again, they usually stay clustered on his fins but I found two spots on one of his eyes today. Let me mention the Nitrates are terribly high and I have been doing weekly water changes for months now trying to lower them. I have another skimmer on the way and media to help absorb nitrates. If somebody could fill me in on a link about cyrpto cyctis (spelling)? I believe its called something along those lines , that would be great. Or just some general information on it. I am trying to pin-point what it is that he has because I am almost certain it is not ich.

Thanks,

-Peter

Cryptocaryon irritans, is just another name for SW "ich".

Err great.. well is there any possibility it has something other than parasites? Or are those little white dots always bad news? They appear to be only on his fins, not the body.. Anyway I watch him very closely so if he does have ich I am not concerned that he has it bad yet, so I will hopefully be able to catch this early. Would you suggest transferring a filter pad from my wet/dry and water from the main tank into a 55 to treat him? Once I lower the salinity the benefitial bacteria will die off on the pad and in the water, so at that point it just will have to do frequent water changes to keep the levels safe?

Thanks

Any chance you could post a pic of the white spots in question?

If the spots are staying in the same spot and are just on the fins -( are they on the pectoral fins?) - good chance you may be dealing with lymphocystis.

My FW puffer has spots on his fins that dont move. Are they a threat to the fish at all?

Puffer Queen,

Thank you very much for the helpful reply. I am going to try to research lymphocystis and figure out if thats what he has or not. Yes , the dots stay in the same locations on his fins but I noticed there were several more over the past few days, all in the same orgins though. I can not see any present on his body. I did notice two white dots on his one eye but they are no longer there.

I would love to post a picture but I dont know how.. Think you could help?

-Peter

To post a picture you need to host it somewhere, I use photobucket its really easy and free. upload the picture onto photobucket then post reply and
[img]paste the url from photobucket[/img].
Sorry thats the best I could explain it...

good call puffer queen!