Chevy55Post
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
75 Gallon Tank with 90 lbs LR 100lbs sand bed and 20 Gallon sump with Chaeto was cycled in June/July 2012. One-Spot Foxface added the end of August. Tank mates - 2 B&W Ocellaris - 2 Cleaner Shrimp - 1 Blue Spotted Watchman Goby - various snails & coral. Emerald Crab in Sump. Last addition was zoa, monti & scripps acro added on 2/26/13. Water paramaters are all good - I have done weekly 8 gallon water changes since cycle. Only problem has been low ph - around 7.8. On Saturday morning I did my weekly PWC and added 2 teaspoons of Kent Superbuffer-dKH (disolved in a glass of RO water and added to DT) to try to raise PH. I was gone all day and when I returned later that night I noticed my Foxface had about 5 spots on one side. The spots were almost stringy looking and larger (did not look like salt sprinkles). The spots on the tail are smaller like salt. Attached picture was taken about 48 hrs after discovery. LFS believes it is not ICH from pictures. I did just add a Scripps Acro last week and it is on the edge of a rock - my thought is that he got against that or ?? Looking at images on ICH - the spots on my Foxface are much larger. I am on day three of adding Maracyn Plus Antibacteria from LFS recomendation. He is acting normal and no other symptoms on any other fish. My question is from everything I can find ICH is like grains of salt. These are much bigger - like 10 grains of salt (except the ones on the tail). I am back and forth thinking it is ICH but I have seen ICH on other fish and it does not look like ICH. Any suggestions? Could it be something else? It is only on one side.
Temp 79 - PH 7.8 - CA 380 - KH 7 - Phosphate & Nitrate 0 - SG 1.024
Temp 79 - PH 7.8 - CA 380 - KH 7 - Phosphate & Nitrate 0 - SG 1.024