Single white spot on guppy fin. Is it ich? Too quickly to inform? If sure, how do I deal with the tank that has plant, shrimp and…

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  1. Hi OP. You can’t diagnose ich by sight. If the spots increase rapidly over the next 24 hours, it is indeed an ectoparasite that you will need to treat with a softer solution, given that you have snails, inverts and plants.

  2. As others have said ich x is what you are going to want if you have invertebrates. I can’t tell if it’s ich based off that picture, however my advice is to source it now. By the time I was sure my tank had ich I couldn’t find ich x anywhere but Amazon and shipping was about a week out. Later found a lfs that stocks it but it can be tough to source.

  3. It doesn’t look like it to me.

    But a single spot of ich is nothing to worry about even if it is. Imagine ich as if it were a tiny leech – It isn’t a disease, it’s a parasite with a cyclical lifestyle of rapid infection, release, breeding and re-infection. A swarm of leeches is a problem, one is nothing. Sometimes one just gets lucky even in a perfectly healthy tank and this generally has no notable health consequences.

    The best cure for ich is a strong, well developed filter community. Most cases of ich self-resolve no matter what cure someone swears by as their filter grows in stronger. If you have persistent ich issues that last beyond the first few months of a tank being set up, then you should either upgrade your filtration or examine the possibility something is regularly going wrong with it.

  4. Crank up the salt! Fuck do t quote me I think was over 300 gdh I did 5 days then 10% water change over a few weeks just need to watch your fish. Honestly can’t remember my dose rate. I should have recorded. All survived though.

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