Tripping out on Silver Dollars
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) and yes they do look like they have been coated in strange stuff at weird angles, nothing to be worried about but a picture would help for sure.
As they get older, especially if you keep them with other SDs, which, obviously, you should, they start looking a little beat up. Not bad, but just obviously an older fish. There might be a place where a fin nip went a little too far, a scale or two missing on the head where they've run into things in their frenzy to swim away, etc. I would provide a photo just to be sure if you think it could be ich (any new additions? Any flashing or heavy breathing?) but otherwise, what you're seeing is pretty normal, IMO.
Cool, thanks for the replies. Its good to know that I'm not the only one who has a mini-panic every time I see it.
I have no pictures of it tho, sorry. My POS radio shack camera would never show detail that small anyway. I need a new camera.
I have no pictures of it tho, sorry. My POS radio shack camera would never show detail that small anyway. I need a new camera.
I wouldn't worry too much. I noticed the same thing on my dollars a couple months ago, pretty sure its just damaged scales/minor injury from spooking and running into something.
through some of my reading on fish I swear that I read that silver dollars will rarely ever get ick.
My common silver dollars broke out in ich pretty bad about 24-48 hours after I brought them home in late February.uncwnells;3598184; said:
BPags52;3598152; said:
Yeah, I think this is exactly what it is... just a few scales reflecting differently from the rest for whatever reason. But dang, it sure looks like early ick manifestation. As soon as the angle changes it disappears.
