Just got my first two fish - does this look like ich?

[scottaa515]

Hello All!

Just getting back into this hobby. My display tank has finishing its nitrogen cycle and stable, so picked up two clownfish over the weekend and put them in a 10g quarantine to observe before putting in my main tank.

Got them on Thursday, Sunday morning I noticed a spot on one of the clowns below the dorsal fin.

Does this look like ich?? There is just one spot, none on the fins and the fish is acting normal. This spot hasn't moved, gotten bigger, or any new ones show up on either fish the past two days.

Note that the two clowns were fighting the first couple days, and this one took some big bites on fins and was bullied, but they have since called down and I think have sorted it out. I'm pretty sure that this one is going to be the male. Could the stress of being bullied bring on something else that looks like this?

These are the best pics I could get. asked him to stay still but he didn't listen

Thanks in advance for reading my post!!

 

[LiveWire]

It does look like a mild case to me. Bravo on the QT setup first!

 

[scottaa515]

Thanks for the reply

I've read several methods to deal with ich. Would you recommend copper or tank transfer method? Also thought about doing a freshwater dip to try and knock that one off, or use safety stop to remove the parasites, then maybe put them in a secondary QT tank with clean everything while I sanitize my original QT tank? Whew this gets complicated fast!

Yes, Hooray for QT - I've put too much time and $$ into my e-170 to just throw fish in there!