mis-diagnosis?

[tallyho]

My henioucus gets a white mucous like stain on
its fins which I have been assuming is ick and
have gone thru hyposalinity.The stain does not look
like salt sprinkled on the fish.It goes and comes
and none of the other fish are affected. The
henioucus is not bothered by it.
Do you think it is ick..??
regards

 

[beth]

No, definately not ick, thus there's no reason to treat with hypo.
It might be a bacterial infection. However, if it comes and goes, and the fish is alright otherwise, perhaps it is too soon to worry about it.
How long has this been going on? Are you treating the fish in a hospital tank?

 

[tallyho]

I have not been able to catch it yet(150 tank with lots of hiding places)The symptoms started more than two months ago and some 10 days ago
have just finished putting the tank back together after segregating rock and invertebrates into a plastic tank,some fish in my Qtank and rest of my fish in another temporary tank.All fish and main tank went thru
4 weeks of hypo.(main tank stayed at1.05 for three weeks) I put the henioucus,a yellow tang,
and a blue hippo tang back in the 150 show tank
for the final week at1.08/1.09. Brought salinity upto 1.023 over 3 days.after a week I had a small ammonia spike so I added back my 80 lbs
of lr and 20 lbs of ls.ammonia went down next
day, followed by 2 days of nitrite spike.
The morning after I put the rock back the stains appeared when I returned from work , the stains were gone.They returned 3 days later for one day.2 days clean then yesterday morning they returned and went away. This morning they are
back and NOW the Dorsal finn have a more ich-like spot.I hope to have a fish trap today.
all quality levels are back to zero ..ph 8.3
alk 325..hoping not to have to remove all rock
again(I am partially disabled)
rgds
thanks

 

[tallyho]

The fish was clean again this morning.