I can not get rid of this ICH!!!!

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ecoli73 said:
hmm...you might want to hold on...

look up lymphocystis...
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I did, I do not believe that, that is what my fish has.

What he's showing is 3 small white spots; they are more dominant to one side but are visible from both. They also have not changed visually after the weeks and weeks of increased tank husbandry.

After my reading on both this and ich, I realize that if it were either, that something would have changed or he would be better.

The only thing I could find online that would explain them was: broken fin rays; read that lesions from fighting could cause broken rays which in turn could cause calcium build up when it healed/was healing.

Hopefully this is what's going on; that or I'm just going to have to setup another tank just for this fish (don't want that).

Any other comments or concerns are appreciated. Thanks everyone for all the help so far. :beer:
 
Zfishies said:
Try scrapping it off?
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I thought about this, what do you believe would be the best tool for the job and would I need to add any antiseptic or ointment of any kind afterwards?
 
Bump for more opinions...

It's has been established that why's this fish has is not ich. He may have Lymphocystis but I am unsure and from what I've read Lymphocystis isn't actually all that bad; other than the fact that it never truly goes completely away.

From what I've read, good tank husbandry along with a good diet and a stress free environment are all the fish needs to heal up from Lymphocystis. I'm doing all of these things now in his quarantine tank but he is a 7" fish in a 20 tall right now (yes I know that's too small but that's all I have for him until he goes in my big tank).

Anyone else have fish with spots like these?

Has anyone else dealt with Lymphocystis, if so, what did you do? I have been treating this fish for 7 weeks, something has got to give.

I really hate keeping this guy in my small quarantine tank but am a bit worried about adding him to my show tank if he truly is sick.

...thanks for all the comments and feedback so far.
 
Well after finally getting a breeding pair of Blue Acara's I was able to move some fish around. I now have my parrot in with the pair and a albino bristlenose in a 40 breeder. At everyone's current size it should work just fine. I'm going to give him some time in this setup and see if the spots go away, or if they spread. I went ahead and moved another pair into my display tank just as a back up.

Although, after the tank move today I do not believe he is sick. I went ahead and scraped the area of the 3 spots and all of them feel very hard and don't scrape off (used a plastic knife).

Hopefully after a little time in the tank with the pair of Acara's, he will heal right up.
 
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