White spots in 24 hours

[Saaqib_Ansari]

Hi, I’ve just added a fish to my DT after 14 weeks of being fallow it was a yellow coris wrasse. Added at 3pm I’ve gone sleep woke up to see 3 spots on the tail of the coris wrasse.... the LFS I got it from has fish in therapeutic copper levels and everything looked fine there ate well etc.
My question is can ich REALLY get on fish that quick or is something more sinister at play here?

 

[Saaqib_Ansari]

30 minutes later only 2 spots?

is it likely that it’s just sand particles stuck ? Please say it’s a possibility because I’m so close to giving up

 

[Familyman2010]

I would lean towards sand particles

 

[Familyman2010]

I would lean towards sand particles

Is there any other symptoms. Heavy breathing? Eating habits?

 

[Saaqib_Ansari]

Is there any other symptoms. Heavy breathing? Eating habits?

It’s been like 20 hours only seen it for 4 hours it ate fine in the store ate fine yday when I added mysis haven’t seen it flash on rocks or anything. Just trying to burrow into the sand but I don’t think my sand is thick enough

 

[Saaqib_Ansari]

No heavy breathing and is picking away at the rocks

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Can’t tell from the photos, but it is unlikely that ich would have shown up that quickly. Fish sometimes get damaged fin rays due to transport that show up as white spots.
Jay

 

[Saaqib_Ansari]

Down to 1 white spot (mark) looks a lot more like sand particles now. Thanks for the help guys

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Down to 1 white spot (mark) looks a lot more like sand particles now. Thanks for the help guys

Don't forget though - the ich life cycle includes a period of tiem where the trophonts drop off to produce daughter cells which then return to the fish a day or so later, so keep you eyes out for that!

Jay

 

[Saaqib_Ansari]

There’s no “spots” on the fish now - would be very odd if it’s caught the spots and they’ve fallen off within 24 hours sounds more like marine velvet if that was the case? However I’m confident it was just sand particles (hopefully)

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

There’s no “spots” on the fish now - would be very odd if it’s caught the spots and they’ve fallen off within 24 hours sounds more like marine velvet if that was the case? However I’m confident it was just sand particles (hopefully)

No - velvet doesn't always even show spots, and when it does, they don't "come and go". Marine ich and sand spots are the two things that commonly do that....

Jay

 

[Saaqib_Ansari]

Okay fingers crossed for the latter. Thanks