Ich's life cycle

[Kabong]

Originally Posted by steve-s

If available to you, I would also suggest using Ocean Nutrition frozen foods. They contain Beta Glucan which will boost the immune response further and aide in the speed of the recovery process. Dry/freeze dried is often not that nutritionally complete.

I'm on Van island so i may not be able to get Ocean nutritions food, But ill take a look for it. I usually feed frozen mysis but he turns his nose up at.
He happily goes after the mysis flake though? Since he just started eating again so he gets what he'll eat for now.

[steve-s]

Originally Posted by Kabong

...he just started eating again so he gets what he'll eat for now.

Agreed, if the fish was not eating previously, that is more imprtant at the moment. As far as the frozen mysis, it can often be the food size that at issue, not really the food type. Check with the LFS you purchased the mysis from and see if they carry alternate brands of mysis. Hikari is usually great for packing a small mysis shrimp that smaller fish have an easier time with. Doesn't necessarily need to be that brand but you get the idea.

Cheers
Steve

[Rondelet]

I have a Firefish that eats just about anything - as long as it's in the water column. He's particularly fond of ON Frozen foods, but you need to shave it down to small pieces. It's readily available in the LFSs in Victoria.

As for the spots - if they haven't changed/moved in two weeks it's highly unlikely it's ich. If it was ich, the pattern of spots would be changing in cycles, usually spaced in 3-5 day intervals (disappearing and then reappearing -slowly increasing in numbers). I noticed the same thing on mine. A small white spot on his flank near the pectoral fin. I was certain it was ich - until I saw no change for several weeks. My guess is that it's a inert cyst of some sort. If the spots are not changing, I wouldn't worry about it. I agree with Steve, getting your fish eating should be your focus.