Chalk bass disease I'd please

[clopez527]

Can anyone please Id this doesn't really look like ich I've seen before could it be something else? Little guy is moving around fine and eating well he's has this for about 10 days and I have not been able to catch him.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

That is one of two things; lymphocystis or microsporidian xenomas.
lymphocystis is a viral disease that almost always clears up without treatment in 6 weeks or so. Microsporidians are these weird single called organisms that form little white pustules called xenomas. There is no treatment for them and they can be fatal. The xenomas are smooth, while Lymphocystis is rougher textured.
Jay

 

[clopez527]

That is one of two things; lymphocystis or microsporidian xenomas.
lymphocystis is a viral disease that almost always clears up without treatment in 6 weeks or so. Microsporidians are these weird single called organisms that form little white pustules called xenomas. There is no treatment for them and they can be fatal. The xenomas are smooth, while Lymphocystis is rougher textured

That is one of two things; lymphocystis or microsporidian xenomas.
lymphocystis is a viral disease that almost always clears up without treatment in 6 weeks or so. Microsporidians are these weird single called organisms that form little white pustules called xenomas. There is no treatment for them and they can be fatal. The xenomas are smooth, while Lymphocystis is rougher textured.
Jay

Thanks Jay greatly appreciate it!

 

[tritonpower]

I have a chalk bass with similar white spots on the tips of its fins. My foxface has also developed spots but those look different. Could both fish have lymphocystis?

 

[tritonpower]

@Jay Hemdal let me know what you think. Thanks

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I have a chalk bass with similar white spots on the tips of its fins. My foxface has also developed spots but those look different. Could both fish have lymphocystis?

The chalk bass does look identical to the previous one in this post - so lymphocystis or microsporidians.

The foxface has something different - could be Cryptocaryon, marine ich.

I would watch those spots by taking another picture of the fish in a few days and compare them - if the same spots are in the same locations, it probably isn’t ich. If the spots change location and numbers, it is more likely to be ich.

Jay

 

[tritonpower]

The spots on the foxface are resolving. The chalk bass is not changed. I will hope for the lympho and wait the 6 weeks you mentioned. Thanks for your help.