One white spot on new fish?

Vilas · 08/02/2014, 09:14 AM

Hi!
Two days ago, I picked up the final fishes for my tank - two juv false percs. They looked ok in the shop, but I admittedly didnt look closely.
Got home, a few hours later I noticed a white spot on one, about the size of a pinhead.
Fish are still active and eating two days later, spot unchanged, not spreading. I'd rather not medicate if possible, but obviously I am prepared to.
Wwyd? Advice? Wouldn't ich have spread or made the fish act sick by now? The spot is flat, I thought lymphocystis qas a bump?

Nina51 · 08/02/2014, 09:34 AM

lympho doesn't necessarily appear bumpy. if it's just one spot, i would watch it for now. i hope you are using a quarantine tank.

Vilas · 08/02/2014, 09:35 AM

Of course. I sure wouldn't medicate in a display!! Watching them for a while ia a given. So you wouldn't do anything immediately?

Nina51 · 08/02/2014, 10:29 AM

the only thing i would definitely do is soak their food in selcon and/or vita-chem. my kole tang developed lympho while he was in qt. he had several spots on him, a couple of them were pretty sizable. i started soaking his food in vitamins as per steve (snorvich). the spots cleared up within a few days, he went into my dt and has been doing great ever since.

so, yes...watch and soak!

Vilas · 08/05/2014, 12:07 AM

Fish still happy and eating well, spot unchanged. So I just named him "spot."

Reef noob_ · 08/05/2014, 08:16 AM

might be just a bubble attached under the fish's slime coat, its happened to me before and i thought it was ich.

Cryptoblennie · 08/05/2014, 08:53 AM

He may have scraped a scale loose darting in and out of the rocks, especially since he's new to the tank, I'm sure at some point he had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid getting nipped by someone else. My damsel will get excited every now and then and after a race through the rocks he will have done the same thing...

swk · 08/05/2014, 09:40 AM

Sugar fine substrate can also attach to the slime coat and appear ich-like. As can microbubbles etc.

As mentioned, soak food in selcon and garlic incase it is something serious.

I think a decent percentage of ich cases aren't truly ich but one of the aforementioned situations.

Reef Frog · 08/05/2014, 12:53 PM

It could also possibly be a parasitic amphipod. I had one once on a newly purchased yellow assessor. It went away, never came back & the fish is fine to this day.

diegoluv · 08/05/2014, 01:22 PM

If the fish is eating then as long as you're feeding quality food, the fishes immune system will fight off the ich, if that's what it is.

Vilas · 08/12/2014, 09:03 AM

Don't think it is ich, or any disease. I think spot just has a spot. Been a while now, nothing changed, fish happy as a clam. Guess the other one will be called stripe.

08/02/2014, 09:14 AM	#1
Vilas Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Blythedale Beach, South Africa Posts: 1,419 Blog Entries: 4	One white spot on new fish? Hi! Two days ago, I picked up the final fishes for my tank - two juv false percs. They looked ok in the shop, but I admittedly didnt look closely. Got home, a few hours later I noticed a white spot on one, about the size of a pinhead. Fish are still active and eating two days later, spot unchanged, not spreading. I'd rather not medicate if possible, but obviously I am prepared to. Wwyd? Advice? Wouldn't ich have spread or made the fish act sick by now? The spot is flat, I thought lymphocystis qas a bump? __________________ 320 gallon tank, lots of locally collected stock. Yes, I have the permits. Took ten years off, happy to be back! Current Tank Info: 320g custom tank with 80g sump. Using local natural sea water.

08/02/2014, 09:34 AM	#2
Nina51 biggliest cofveve champ Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: 5th floor, Illinois, gewgaw expert Posts: 3,506	lympho doesn't necessarily appear bumpy. if it's just one spot, i would watch it for now. i hope you are using a quarantine tank. __________________ of all the things i've lost, i miss my gary the most. Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine into your brain, and that is where crappy ideas come from. Current Tank Info: i gave my reef away and i feel like a bird out of a cage!!

08/02/2014, 09:35 AM	#3
Vilas Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Blythedale Beach, South Africa Posts: 1,419 Blog Entries: 4	Of course. I sure wouldn't medicate in a display!! Watching them for a while ia a given. So you wouldn't do anything immediately? __________________ 320 gallon tank, lots of locally collected stock. Yes, I have the permits. Took ten years off, happy to be back! Current Tank Info: 320g custom tank with 80g sump. Using local natural sea water.

08/02/2014, 10:29 AM	#4
Nina51 biggliest cofveve champ Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: 5th floor, Illinois, gewgaw expert Posts: 3,506	the only thing i would definitely do is soak their food in selcon and/or vita-chem. my kole tang developed lympho while he was in qt. he had several spots on him, a couple of them were pretty sizable. i started soaking his food in vitamins as per steve (snorvich). the spots cleared up within a few days, he went into my dt and has been doing great ever since. so, yes...watch and soak! __________________ of all the things i've lost, i miss my gary the most. Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine into your brain, and that is where crappy ideas come from. Current Tank Info: i gave my reef away and i feel like a bird out of a cage!!

08/05/2014, 12:07 AM	#5
Vilas Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Blythedale Beach, South Africa Posts: 1,419 Blog Entries: 4	Fish still happy and eating well, spot unchanged. So I just named him "spot." __________________ 320 gallon tank, lots of locally collected stock. Yes, I have the permits. Took ten years off, happy to be back! Current Tank Info: 320g custom tank with 80g sump. Using local natural sea water.

08/05/2014, 08:16 AM	#6
Reef noob_ Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: holmdel, NJ Posts: 555	might be just a bubble attached under the fish's slime coat, its happened to me before and i thought it was ich.

08/05/2014, 08:53 AM	#7
Cryptoblennie Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 47	He may have scraped a scale loose darting in and out of the rocks, especially since he's new to the tank, I'm sure at some point he had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid getting nipped by someone else. My damsel will get excited every now and then and after a race through the rocks he will have done the same thing...

08/05/2014, 09:40 AM	#8
swk Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Wine Country CA Posts: 2,593	One white spot on new fish? Sugar fine substrate can also attach to the slime coat and appear ich-like. As can microbubbles etc. As mentioned, soak food in selcon and garlic incase it is something serious. I think a decent percentage of ich cases aren't truly ich but one of the aforementioned situations. __________________ Member of Wine Country Reefers Current Tank Info: 75 gal SPS dominant reef. Geo calcium reactor with masterflex pump, Deltec 1455 skimmer, 2 mp40QD, mp10wes, lit by a 6x54 dimable ATI sunpower and controlled by Reef Angel

08/05/2014, 12:53 PM	#9
Reef Frog Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Maryland Posts: 3,121	It could also possibly be a parasitic amphipod. I had one once on a newly purchased yellow assessor. It went away, never came back & the fish is fine to this day.

08/05/2014, 01:22 PM	#10
diegoluv Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 80	If the fish is eating then as long as you're feeding quality food, the fishes immune system will fight off the ich, if that's what it is.

08/12/2014, 09:03 AM	#11
Vilas Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Blythedale Beach, South Africa Posts: 1,419 Blog Entries: 4	Don't think it is ich, or any disease. I think spot just has a spot. Been a while now, nothing changed, fish happy as a clam. Guess the other one will be called stripe. __________________ 320 gallon tank, lots of locally collected stock. Yes, I have the permits. Took ten years off, happy to be back! Current Tank Info: 320g custom tank with 80g sump. Using local natural sea water.