Hello everybody 
Have an Ocellaris or Orinoguensis (never could tell the difference) With big white areas of skin on the forehead and some BIG white spots on the gillcovers. (note: BIG WHITE AREAS so forget the common ich). Hes definately doing plenty of scratching and the temperature was down to 23c (73f). Plugging in a heaterstick the temperature rose to 26c (79f) overnight. Either that or something else might seem to have helped as the white areas seem a bit smaller, but hes doing more of the scratching. I've had the whole group for almost a year, so forget stress. Only footnote here is that i added 3 large bikir about 2 months ago, and this seems to work fine as they're bottomdwellers and the cichlas prefer the above half of the tank. None are agressive towards eachother and theres almost no interaction between em at all.
This condition might be passing, but he's doing plenty of scratching, so any help would be MUCH appreciated!
Have an Ocellaris or Orinoguensis (never could tell the difference) With big white areas of skin on the forehead and some BIG white spots on the gillcovers. (note: BIG WHITE AREAS so forget the common ich). Hes definately doing plenty of scratching and the temperature was down to 23c (73f). Plugging in a heaterstick the temperature rose to 26c (79f) overnight. Either that or something else might seem to have helped as the white areas seem a bit smaller, but hes doing more of the scratching. I've had the whole group for almost a year, so forget stress. Only footnote here is that i added 3 large bikir about 2 months ago, and this seems to work fine as they're bottomdwellers and the cichlas prefer the above half of the tank. None are agressive towards eachother and theres almost no interaction between em at all.
This condition might be passing, but he's doing plenty of scratching, so any help would be MUCH appreciated!
if it takes a turn for the worst definatly treat with antibiotics in a quarintine tank ....sis it start with damage then spread?is that why you believe bacterial ?