The Puffer Forum

I have been treating boomer for ich for the past 13 days now. He is fine and well and hasnt once shown any other symptons apart from the white spots.

However, after raising the heat and adding the salt... along with the 50% water changes (although i have to confess to only doing 40% due to the size of his tank) the spots remain.

Some of them seem to have gone and from what i can see there are no new ones popping up..... how long do they stay on the fish?

Strangely enough none of the other fishes have any signs of Ich.

Have you got a picture? How much salt have you added and how high is the temp?

I'll get a picture up tonight, the temperature is about 28-29

Every time I did a water change I added the salt. I followed the directions from the packet which equated to 1 tablespoon every 20l. Its a 400l tank and I have been doing a 140l change every other day. Not quite 40% as i said my apologies... is this what the problem could be?

I don't normally recommend frequent water changes while treating for ich. I usually recommend treating for a week, then doing a water change and thorough gravel vac, salting the new water as well, then no water change for another week, with another gravel vac at that time and replacement with fresh water. I'm just wondering if its really ich. You can safely double the amount of salt you are using and treat for another two weeks, but I'd really like us to see a picture first so we can see better what we're dealing with.

I get home at about 6, so i'll put a picture up then.
It seemed odd to me that none of the other fish have caught it, which makes me think it may not be ich. I just dont know. I more than happy to do less frequent water changes as he sulks when i mess about in his tank too much.

Like i said he is perfectly happy and hasnt shown any other signs of ich... i'm kind of hoping its like a fish acne and perhaps he's going through puberty!!

Probably not, i know....

Its common for ich to not infect every fish in the tank. They tend to infect fish that are sick or stressed mostly. But it could just be the spines or something simple like that.

Got home tonight to a less spottier boomeroo. I havent actually done a water change since saturday and its obviously helped.

I cant actually get a picture now either because the spots that were left have faded somewhat. I am pretty certain they werent spines as they matched the ich description perfectly. I will keep an eye out, like i said there havent been any new bumps so i am hoping this is the end of it.

Thanks for all the help.

Thas good news, hope he fully recovers soon