Strange white spot

[tcarswell]

instant ocean

hmm I may be wrong here but I am just trying to look out for a fellow fishkeeper so I am gonna go out on a limb here and perhaps look stupid. But I believe table salt and the API freshwater salt are the healing ones.. I am not sure if the marine salt is what is used. Id research it but im on my way out the door been fixing my damn BMW all day

 

[Danger_Chicken]

The marine salt has a more complex varity of minerals. It's definately working, at least for this issue.

 

[Danger_Chicken]

This is what I usually call a fish tumor. I've had customers bring them in with them. and I've once bought a fish with it before, It was part of a group of 6 cupidos. In all the cases bringing it to a tank with less than 40 nitrates and high quality food, shrunk it down to unnoticeable size in a month of two. You can still see a small white spot on the fin usually, but definitely shrunk. I haven't been able to observe this for any longer than 6 months. So I am unsure if it'll ever completely disapear.

hmmm my nirates don't get over 30 in that tank and the food is high quaility. This tank gets a 30% water change every other day.

I wanted to post an update in case anybody else runs into this:
I had a nasty wake up call last month. I tested some newer tanks I setup and noticed they all read 30 NO3 like the 220. There was no way 4 tanks were reading the same considering the stock, maint schedule and age; so I bought another test kit (salfet?) and BAM off the chart on the 220 and looking good on the others (I don't remember the numbers now). I upped the water changes to 30% everyday and then sold all the oscars but one (unrelated sale, but timely) and the nitrates dropped. The white spot has since cleared up. I don't see any residule, but I do notice the fin is slightly shorter were it was, I don't know if that will grow back or not.

I found a thread that said the last 4 digits on the API bottle is the production date. Mine was 3 years old when I bought it and that was a year and a half ago