What looks like it but may not be.

[conig]

I have a 15in peacock bass that is prone to hith. I have normally treated with fish zole, recently i used metro plus. It stopped the hole in the head but then the fish got what looks like ick.

I have raised temps and added salt. Neither did anything. I did 30 minutes in a bath 4teaspoons to 1 gallon. And 5 minutes in essentially sea water. The spots have not fallen off.

I recently did a treatment of fish mox as well.

Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to become free swimming. I am at a week with no other fish being effected. The bass seems to have more spots. He is still active and eating.

 

[kno4te]

Would sugget posting ur water parameters and pics of the fish. It’ll take some time before ich will start to disappear. Need to be patient. Also need increase ur temp to 86degrees.

 

[duanes]

Unless you use the proper amount of salt to cure ick, ick will not be cured and keep relapsing. Just tossing in some minor amount is not effective.
Most cichlids need 3.5 lbs of salt per 100 gallons, enough to bring the salinity of the tank water to 3.5 ppt (parts per thousand), enough osmotic pressure to lyse all infective protozoa, and it can take 2 weeks to actually eliminate all those parasites from the tank.
If they are all not killed, ick protozoa keep on reinfecting.
Dips are also ineffective for ick, because there are certain stages of the ick life cycle that they are immune to treatment. This is why heat is used, as it speeds up the life cycle, bringing those vulnerable stages into contact with the high salinity.

 

[conig]

I lost my salinity meter years ago. Heat has been raised for over a week. I have treated ick in the past it normally doesn't worry me. I have 3-4 teaspoons per gallon of salt in the water. It hasn't infected any other fish.

I am about to pick up some copper safe.

 

[duanes]

It also looks like it has bacterial infections, which can become even more virulent when heat is increased.
One of the reasons I use salt by weight, and not volume (tsps, tbsps, etc) is that different grades of salt have different concentrations. A tbsp of water softener salt, is different than a tbsp of rock salt, or different than a tbsp of table salt, I always go by 3.5 lbs per 100 gallons to get the biggest bang for the buck.
And you don't need a salinity meter if you just add the proper weight.
Another problem with raising temp, especially in a heavy case like above, is each spot will burst in up to 100 new ick even quicker, so unless the proper salinity (or concentration of meds) is there to lyse the new ick hatches, they reinfect logarithmically, weakening the fish more every day.

 

[kno4te]

To be honest it looks like velevet. Would reduce the temps and add copper.

 

[dr exum]

how’d this turn out ?

 

[CaribeWithaCavity]

Damn good luck man