ibrat82
02/12/2016, 07:47 PM
Hi Guys
I originally posted this in the new to hobby section but was advise to post here. I've had a pair of juvenile clowns for almost a month now. One of them developed a fuzzy white spot ( 1-2mm diameter ) a couple days after getting him, it was isolated on his body right before his tail fin. I was told it could be lymph so I treated his food with garlic and vitamins etc and it went away. Then his tail was half missing, I think that was mostly due to the 2 clowns fighting, but now I'm seeing 4-5 of these spots on his body and it's mostly only on one side. The other side has only 1 spot. I don't know if this is ich because besides the spot I don't see any other symptoms. Hes not scraping against rock, no change in eating behaviour, no gasping for air or heart breathing. Please help finding the right diagnosis so I can treat it accordingly..
The only change to tank has been adding some inverts to help clean the diatoms bloom. And I've done a few water changes over 3 days to help lower my nitrates and increase salinity as my refractometer was way off and my real salinity was 1.020. Over three days I increased to 1.025 with 24 hour automated water changes.
Water parameters are
Temple 77
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 6
Phosphate 7.8
Phosphate 0
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/icontractor82/20160212_190653_zps7cfwnsjd.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/icontractor82/media/20160212_190653_zps7cfwnsjd.jpg.html)
I originally posted this in the new to hobby section but was advise to post here. I've had a pair of juvenile clowns for almost a month now. One of them developed a fuzzy white spot ( 1-2mm diameter ) a couple days after getting him, it was isolated on his body right before his tail fin. I was told it could be lymph so I treated his food with garlic and vitamins etc and it went away. Then his tail was half missing, I think that was mostly due to the 2 clowns fighting, but now I'm seeing 4-5 of these spots on his body and it's mostly only on one side. The other side has only 1 spot. I don't know if this is ich because besides the spot I don't see any other symptoms. Hes not scraping against rock, no change in eating behaviour, no gasping for air or heart breathing. Please help finding the right diagnosis so I can treat it accordingly..
The only change to tank has been adding some inverts to help clean the diatoms bloom. And I've done a few water changes over 3 days to help lower my nitrates and increase salinity as my refractometer was way off and my real salinity was 1.020. Over three days I increased to 1.025 with 24 hour automated water changes.
Water parameters are
Temple 77
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 6
Phosphate 7.8
Phosphate 0
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj559/icontractor82/20160212_190653_zps7cfwnsjd.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/icontractor82/media/20160212_190653_zps7cfwnsjd.jpg.html)