Is this itch? What do I do to cure it?

[Plecos_Ftw]

its no ich ichs like little white dot lookin things all over

 

[Lupin]

Is adding table salt (iodized) advisable as well?

Table salt should not be of much concern when used. I don't see why people freak out when the table salt itself contains iodine. And in your case, Arkmann, I don't think salt is the solution here however. For bacterial infections, acriflavine, furan, MarOxy and oxytetracycline are the solutions here. Oxytetracycline is available in stores that specialize in livestock equipments. Before jumping on meds, try doing water changes and make sure water parameters are up to your expectations. If there is improvement, then continue doing so until the reddish patch is gone. Melafix will not help on bacterial infections but will help cure wounds before any symptoms of secondary infections appear.


FOLKS!!!
The word 'itch' was referred to the red part on the dorsal fin, not your typical white spots or ich.

 

[Miles]

Scepticimia? Ammonia poisoning?

 

[arowana man]

ick looks like grains of salt on the fish.

 

[arowana man]

 

[arkmann]

It has been identified that the skin rash is not itch. Unfortunately, the fish died this morning. I will provide photos later tonight.

I think another problem on my part is when I bought the fish, it was in a tank with other thinbars that had the same time of skin rash but being the excited thinbar addict that I have become, I still decided to buy it. Don't get e wrong, the seller was a definitely cool guy.

I bought two thinbars and both of them died on me. The one in the photo above had wonderful colors... too bad it died.

I think I might refrain from getting any dats at the moment. I will probably wait until my dats grow to around 4 inches or more. The thinbars are so sensitive compared to indos, NGTs, and silvers. I will most likely get thinbars in the future that are 4-5 inches in length...

 

[charlet_2007]

my goldfish had something like that before but he lived thew it and came out of it pretty quickly too.. i'm sorry for you lost tho..

 

[arkmann]

By the way I did a water change and checked my water parameters the first day I noticed the skin rash. And water parameters are acceptable. By the way, the thinbar was with 2 NGTs and 1 Indo. They all seem to be fine. they are all in a 10G grow-out/QT tank.

Yeah, I think I'm done with getting more fish at the moment. Loosing a great looking fish sucks!!! any fish for that matter.

Its time to grow my fish first...

 

[Lupin]

Okay. I've tried to search again for documents I've compiled for diseases and Miles hit it right with septicemia but can be considered as bacterial infection as well. Only antibiotics will work on this. Poor water quality and stress are main factors for this. Transmission is done by contact of diseased fish.

 

[arkmann]

It was probably caused by stress as well as contact with diseased fish. I used melafix but that was the extent as of what I did with regards to applying medication.