Possibly ich??
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Keep an eye on him, but it looks to me like fine sand. My loaches get it all the time but I use black sand and it's easier to see that it's sand. Its odd to me that it's just on the fin
Here's a bad vase of Ich to compare, at times it can start on fins, or inside the gills. But to see it on fins, you may need to get a shot where the fish is in from of a dark object. With that fish, against the light color of your substrate, it hard to see what you mean very clearly.
Is your fish flashing (rubbing against objects? or acting normal?
Is your fish flashing (rubbing against objects? or acting normal?
Wow that's a bad case, I thought my clowns had it bad the last time. To the op, if it is ich you will know for sure in less than a week. Add air, a little salt and heat for 2 weeks and it'll be fine. The closer you can get to 90f the better.
It's hard to see for certain, but it does not look like ich to me.It just looks like it's fin has been nipped by another cichlid.If tank conditions are good it should just heal on its own.keep an eye on it incase of further infections.
It's hard to see for certain, but it does not look like ich to me.It just looks like it's fin has been nipped by another cichlid.If tank conditions are good it should just heal on its own.keep an eye on it incase of further infections.
Hi Duane, are there other reasons for flashing? I see some of my fish doing it every once in a while, but I don't see any other signs of ich.
As Stanzzzz7 said there are many reasons for flashing.
The bad case of ick in my photo was brought on by not quarantining some fish long enough, I only did 3 weeks, should have done much longer, would have saved me a lot of grief.
I treated with 3ppt (parts per thousand) salt for a month, and no fish died except the new fish that brought the parasite in (Not the ones in the photo).
But I was adding hand fulls of rock salt with every water change to 300 gallons of tank and sump, and vacuuming heavily to remove dormant ick cysts.
The bad case of ick in my photo was brought on by not quarantining some fish long enough, I only did 3 weeks, should have done much longer, would have saved me a lot of grief.
I treated with 3ppt (parts per thousand) salt for a month, and no fish died except the new fish that brought the parasite in (Not the ones in the photo).
But I was adding hand fulls of rock salt with every water change to 300 gallons of tank and sump, and vacuuming heavily to remove dormant ick cysts.