Ok so hes been like this for 6 months eats normally and hes the only fish in the tank who has it. I origionaly thought it was ich and dosed copper (fowlr tank) and other ich meds at seperate times, and it still remains so please help id this for me.
Disease id on trigger not ich
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If it's not ich then its a different parasite... but copper deals with all external parasites that I know of... did you follow treatment regimes perfectly? The problem is once a system is over run with Ich or similar parasites their eggs survive the treatment stage only to infect again once their life cycle restarts.
Here is my recomendation, set up a QT for the long haul, move ALL your fish into the QT and basicaly leave your main display to run "empty" for 6 weeks, this will kill off all Ich even the eggs as the complete life cycle is around 30ish days so by going longer then that insures that all the Ich would have hatched and subsiquently died from lack of a hoste. Treat the fish in hyposalinity for about 10 days, the Ich Should be dead after this point, which means salinity can be boosted back to normal.
Here is a more detailed outline of what I described, I recomend reading it through and following it to the letter.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/ich.html
Here is my recomendation, set up a QT for the long haul, move ALL your fish into the QT and basicaly leave your main display to run "empty" for 6 weeks, this will kill off all Ich even the eggs as the complete life cycle is around 30ish days so by going longer then that insures that all the Ich would have hatched and subsiquently died from lack of a hoste. Treat the fish in hyposalinity for about 10 days, the Ich Should be dead after this point, which means salinity can be boosted back to normal.
Here is a more detailed outline of what I described, I recomend reading it through and following it to the letter.
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/ich.html
+1 to the above.
By the time you get the fish out of the tank, and put it into freshwater for a prolonged period of time (plus other water quality fluxuations between your show tank and your dip container) your already sick and stressed fish becomes even more stressed, and weaker.
I have heard people having success with dips, but they are done very carefully, and usually on the way into QT.
By the time you get the fish out of the tank, and put it into freshwater for a prolonged period of time (plus other water quality fluxuations between your show tank and your dip container) your already sick and stressed fish becomes even more stressed, and weaker.
I have heard people having success with dips, but they are done very carefully, and usually on the way into QT.