White spot help(not ich)

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Hey everyone, I am having a bit of trouble on this one.

I got 4 WC Heros liberifer, and for the most part they are doing fine except one of them has white spots that slowly are multiplying. When I got them, it had one decent sized spot on its tail, and one on the top of its eye. It hasn't transferred to any other fish, but its now up to about 6 spots.

I am currently treating the tank with general cure because I am worried I cross contaminated the tank with hexamita when I put some young Geos in with them. The only difference between the one with spots and the other 3 is that the other 3 will eat pellets, and it will only eat bloodworms and flakes. I just assume that its because he is being difficult on transitioning.

Oh, for a week I did 1tsp per gallon of salt and didnt really seem to have much of an effect on the spots.

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Hard to tell from pic but it could be hex or even a bacterial issue. A few treatments of metro should take care of any hex/spiro infection but it would take some time for the lesions to disappear
 
Im thinking I will finish out the General Cure treatment, which will be done tomorrow, and monitoring the spots, if they increase in amount or size, I was thinking of isolating him and treating with Kordon Rid Ich(4.26% of formalin and 0.038% malachite green).
 
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Sorry I havent updated. I ended up treating with Kordon rid-ich for 4 days and it seems to have cured him. Its taken a bit for the spots do leave, but seems like he is on the mend. Another one of them has developed one small spot but now that I know how to treat it, I am just going to treat the whole tank.
 
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