Is this Ich or Velvet?

[mrobe57]

I have a sailfin along with a blue tang, coral beauty, foxface, pink skunk, yellow gobies, green chromis, sixline wrasse, and sleeper goby, in a quaratine tank treating with hyposalinity. All the spots on the blue tang have disappeared, but the spots on the sailfin never have changed. They have been on the body of the sailfin for about 2 weeks. Do you think this is ich or velvet. Thankyou for your help....Mike

 

[maroon6000]

are there little protrushions where the white spots are?

 

[mrobe57]

No...Just blotchy skin...doesn't really look like ich, and it's not affecting the fish like velvet....I don't know...maybe a bacterial thing?

 

[LRS078]

Odinium is what it looks like. We had a spiney box puffer with a case of that in an isolation tank. Treat w' copper in the water, put metronitazole in its food (soak), and throw some melafix in the tank as well. BTW, take out any carbon elements in the filtration while you are doing this or it will pull it out of the water. That combo just about nukes everything. The fish that are lost to that are lost to the wounds it creates usually, not the condition itself.

Hope this helps,
Lee

 

[spade955]

No.

Listen that is really uncalled for take a chill pill man.

 

[mrobe57]

No.

Listen that is really uncalled for take a chill pill man.

What are you talking about?