Please Help! Need to identify whether or not this is Ich

[gfinan]

I have had my tomini tang in the display for roughly 1 month. Although it is not breathing heavily, scratching/flashing, etc, it does seem to have some white spots on its fins. I just noticed the spots today. I've done some research and seen that this could also be fin ray fractures or lympho. The tang does like to go into caves and could be bumping its fins into things, but logically this seems like ich since it's really common for tangs.

I also have a flasher wrasse that has more iridescent looking spots. Not sure if this is related (it may just be a part of its coloration), but i have attached a picture of it as well.

If this is ich, what should I do? Are there any definitive ways to test for ich? Thanks in advance.

 

[ya_boii]

Doesn't look like ich from here. Wrasse and tangs are both fish that brush up against the sand all the time. Probably just a few grains of sand. Tomini tangs would definitely be showing way more issues by the time there were spots. If he's eating, grazing and cruising with no flashing? Yeah, probably nothing to worry over

 

[gfinan]

Doesn't look like ich from here. Wrasse and tangs are both fish that brush up against the sand all the time. Probably just a few grains of sand. Tomini tangs would definitely be showing way more issues by the time there were spots. If he's eating, grazing and cruising with no flashing? Yeah, probably nothing to worry over

thank you! any idea what it could be? I use aragonite not a fine sand.

 

[ya_boii]

Doesn't look like ich from here. Wrasse and tangs are both fish that brush up against the sand all the time. Probably just a few grains of sand. Tomini tangs would definitely be showing way more issues by the time there were spots. If he's eating, grazing and cruising with no flashing? Yeah, probably nothing to worry over

thank you! any idea what it could be?

Likely just some sand grains got kicked up or lymphocytes (I think that's what they're called). Behavior will tell you a lot about the fish long before you see something wrong

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have had my tomini tang in the display for roughly 1 month. Although it is not breathing heavily, scratching/flashing, etc, it does seem to have some white spots on its fins. I just noticed the spots today. I've done some research and seen that this could also be fin ray fractures or lympho. The tang does like to go into caves and could be bumping its fins into things, but logically this seems like ich since it's really common for tangs.

I also have a flasher wrasse that has more iridescent looking spots. Not sure if this is related (it may just be a part of its coloration), but i have attached a picture of it as well.

If this is ich, what should I do? Are there any definitive ways to test for ich? Thanks in advance.

This can or may be ich and will need pics under bright white light intensity - No Blue to clearly identify.

 

[gfinan]

here are some more pictures @vetteguy53081 sorry, i couldn't completely turn the blue off because the tang got scared and hid in a cave when i tried

 

[vetteguy53081]

here are some more pictures @vetteguy53081

This does look to be early stage ich and not sand grains which stick to body rather than fins but to best determine, ich will multiply every 24 hours and if this is, you will see additional dots and in new locations this time tomorrow

 

[gfinan]

This does look to be early stage ich and not sand grains which stick to body rather than fins but to best determine, ich will multiply every 24 hours and if this is, you will see additional dots and in new locations this time tomorrow

thank you for taking a look