Spots on Sailfin

[kaseykagan]

These spots are showing on my Sailfin....looks to large to be ich! However he is behaving as if it is! Scratching, going to cleaners and swimming in the currents.

We have had him 9 years...really don't want to loose him. Any suggestions on what it is and a treatment!

 

[bang guy]

I can't see anything in the pics.

 

[kaseykagan]

you mean you can't see the pictures at all or you can't see the spots?

 

[bang guy]

I can't see the spots. Can you describe them?

 

[kaseykagan]

in the last picture...look at the bottom of the black bar coming down from his eye. Right on the bottom of that bar and the next black bar in, there are three spots. They are fairly large. They are a brown color. He is also swimming in the current, going to the cleaner shrimp and scratching. Behaving like ick.....but they look too large to be ick, I think!

 

[bang guy]

OK, it's obvious what you're talking about now. What threw me is that Ick is white and I couldn't see any white dots anywhere.

I know it's near impossible but a closeup of a spot is crucial.

Do the spots move at all?

Do you have any Mushrooms or Anemone in the tank?

 

[kaseykagan]

There are both mushrooms and bubble tip anemones in the tank......the spots have cleared up and almost disappeared in the last couple of days!

 

[kaseykagan]

Spots have not moved!

 

[beth]

Are those spots flat and simply look like spotted skin, or are they pumped?

Please provide info about your water readings including pH, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, salinity.