White Spots / Ick

[bigten]

I attached a couple pictures of my fish who has a spot above his eye. It started out white now it is starting to turn a pinkish red. Is this ick or something else? And Should I use the ick cure (Salt, Raise Temp)?

 

[akskirmish]

Not ick-(looks like very small fine pieces of salt).....

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

That's not ick, looks like some kind of infection, fungus or something

 

[bigten]

I just seen that my other foil barb has it too on his fins. Their the only two that have it in the tank. Is there a remedy I could use to get rid of it?

 

[jersey600]

is it possible to quaratine the two of them and use an anti-fungal medicine? or perhaps even salt

 

[ShadowBass]

How many do you have? They may be biting each other, that's kind of how it looks in the pic.

 

[bigten]

I have two of them. The other one just has a white spot on his fin

 

[K626]

Looks like a fungus to me......pimafix/melafix, salt, and you should be fine. Just up the airation in your tank while you do. Don't want a lack of o2 in the water.

 

[headbanger_jib]

if it was ich
then your CLs would have been the first ones to get it
it looks more like fungus to me
tetracyclin does a good job at ridding fungus quick

 

[ShadowBass]

I have two of them. The other one just has a white spot on his fin

With only 2 there's a good chance one is harrassing the other and the damage caused a fungal infection. Fungus preys on injuries. It's not necessarily a big issue, if you have good water quality it will often heal on its own.