IS THIS ICK?

[Dawson_hatton]

I started a thread on this before in the emergency forum, but atm i’m not considering this an emergency as my fish are acting completely normal. basically i’ve noticed these white spots on the tail of my blue green damsel and some super super small ones on the head and tail of my cloudy damsel. I’m asking if this is ick because i’m not sure if it’s velvet or ick. I’m hoping it’s only ick because I heard if the fish are acting normal they generally will be fine, plus I don’t have any resources to set up a qt. my water parameters are fine, and the only stress there may have been would be from the addition of new fish. All my fish seem to be acting normal, defending their territory, feeding, playing in the current etc, but the spots are bothering me. some interesting things I noticed is that none of my other fish have shown signs of having anything, only my damsels, which have been in the tank since I got it, and the other day, I woke up and all the white spots were gone from my cloudy damsel, not the blue green one though, and now they are back. I haven’t really noticed scratching. occasionally my cloudy will scratch but not much at all. I’ve been lacing their pellets with garlic too. anyway if anyone can identify what these spots are it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Dalalen]

Anyway you can just post a picture? I don't have the right codec installed to view the vids.

 

[Dawson_hatton]

sure, i’ll just screenshot the video.

 

[Uncle99]

I don’t see ick. If they had velvet, they would be dying/dead.
With no behavioral changes at, I would do nothing but keep watch.

 

[Dawson_hatton]

alright thank you. I’m pretty sure the blue green has it but even then, he actually has been acting healthier the past few days (rescue fish) than he was originally, so I’ll keep an eye out for anything unusual.

 

[Dalalen]

One of the fins that I can see looks like a ICH to me. I recommend reading up on some ICK management practices just to prepared. Did you quarantine before adding them to a main tank or display?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like Oodinum and playing in the current because it is irritating them. You can treat them with freshwater dip, lower salinity or Epsom salt bath. Chelated copper can also be used as long as no inverts

 

[Jvalle]

hi in my case, i just feed more and make sure temp is stable in the tank and they recover on their own. thx

 

[Dawson_hatton]

Looks like Oodinum and playing in the current because it is irritating them. You can treat them with freshwater dip, lower salinity or Epsom salt bath. Chelated copper can also be used as long as no inverts

can’t do most of that because inverts and coral, plus catching Damsels is basically impossible. After looking into it more, I’m pretty sure it’s ich. like other people have said if it was Velvet they’d be showing more symptoms, or even dead, unless it’s one of the less serious strains. they’ve had this for around 3 weeks now. plus that damsel has been swimming in the current like that since I got him. he still swims around the rock structures too and is still territorial, still eats well and stuff. I’m really not sure if I should be worried or not. I’m kinda hearing two answers. either treat them or just keep an eye on them if they acting normal.

 

[Dawson_hatton]

One of the fins that I can see looks like a ICH to me. I recommend reading up on some ICK management practices just to prepared. Did you quarantine before adding them to a main tank or display?

didn’t quarantine them because my local petco, where I got them at actually keeps their sw tanks pristine (surprising right) and they all seemed perfectly healthy when I got them, plus I don’t have a qt otherwise I would haha. if anything I was worried about the chromis (got him and the blue green damsel at the same time) who didn’t seem as healthy but overall is now one of the healthiest in my tank.

 

[Dawson_hatton]

none of the fish are showing any visible signs of marine velvet except this damsel? can anyone verify? I legit can’t tell what it is. but it’s super urgent. I have the resources for ich management but not for velvet. I’d prefer to not loose like $40 of fish.

 

[PP123]

none of the fish are showing any visible signs of marine velvet except this damsel? can anyone verify? I legit can’t tell what it is. but it’s super urgent. I have the resources for ich management but not for velvet. I’d prefer to not loose like $40 of fish.

Yes this looks like it.

You need to move this post fish-disease-treatment-and-diagnosis and hopefully get a quick response

 

[Sleeping Giant]

Looks like ICH to me

 

[Dawson_hatton]

Yes this looks like it.

You need to move this post fish-disease-treatment-and-diagnosis and hopefully get a quick response

looks like ich or velvet?
also how do I move a thread i’m a bit new haha

 

[Dawson_hatton]

here’s this is anyone needs too btw, noticed some look a little oval shaped?

 

[Dawson_hatton]

UPDATE: I did a fw dip on the two fish that actually have visible symptoms. the blue green damsel didn’t make it but the cloudy damsel appears to have no white dots at all. I have him in a separate container in the tank for now. considering that all the white spots fell off, does anyone know what it could be?