I've had this 3.5'' FireMouth for a few months. About three weeks ago I noticed small greyish-white spots on his caudal fin. I raised the temp to 82 degrees and increased water changes to two 40% WC's per week. This past weekend I've noticed spots now appearing on his dorsal and the number of spots on his tail have increased in size and numbers. It doesn't look like Ich to me but I'm no expert by any means. Like I stated before the spots are only on the tail and dorsal and are not as "bright" as Ich spots that I've seen...(meaning Ich looking like little grains of salt). These look like little greyish-white blemmishes. I'm thinking that its some kind of fin rott, but my parimeters are all good. Tank has been set up for a year. Fish Takes food like a champ and I haven't witnessed him being bullied by his tankmates (4''GT, 6''L203 pleco)
Could be Ich....
- Thread starter Tango374
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Look up Flexibacter columnaris in google. It said you need to drop the temp in the tank to 74-76.
Agreed, this is one form of pseudo-fungus that is caused by a bacterium. Melafix-primafix combo or even salt treatment might help but binox, Maracyn Plus, or furanase will all (almost assuaradly< get rid of it. Small nodes of whitiesh scar tissue often remain at the infection sites evenafter the infection is cured, they eventually turn clear but still are apparant as little knots. I had this one show up a couple times, but ther fish that actually got diagnosed proprly was the one crenicichla that I have kept, a very pretty saxtilus that looked a lot like these. Untreated, the disease would have, at the very least, scarred the fish badly. It could have killed it. Instyead it ended up in the Steinhardt Aquarium.
