I just got a nice little female bellycrawler the other day. I noticed some whitish spots on her side, they almost have a goldish tint to them though. She also has 1 or 2 white spots on her fin. Is this ich?
Does my pike have ich!?
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From what I saw it isn't that bad. It is only one or two spots. I hope I am just over reacting. I put some aquarium salt in my tank and raised the temperature. None of my other fishes have the spots. Also my pike isn't clamping her fins down or being lazy and moves around quite a bit still.
we really need pics... ich is white spots but there are plenty other diseases that can show up that. i jsut had 2 small white dots on my silver dollar that was some other type of disease and definitely wasnt ich. pics will help us diagnose what your pike has. otherwise aquarium salt and raising the temp are a good start. also ive noticed my plecos are alittle sensitive so some ich medications so i only dose half. just how i do it tho.
I'm not sure if it was ich. I checked her today a few minutes ago and they are all gone. Maybe it was some air bubbles? She hides under a pot that has an air disc right in it that makes super fine bubbles. Either it was an air bubble or the big dose of salt and the raised water temperature made it go away. When should I change my water now?
i might leave the tank as is for a day or two to make sure whatever it was if it was even anything doesnt come back... then in a few days do a water change and slowly lower the temp back down
Ok thanks, I will lower the temperature with the water change and lower the heaters down on sunday.
A yellowish cast to the spotting usually means it's velvet, not ich. Velvet spots are smaller then ich. Sounds like you have it under control regardless(treatments are very similar).