Does my fish have ich or velvet (picture uploaded)

[bperau]

Can someone please help me figure out what this fish have. My 2 foxface have white specs on them which I'm pretty sure is ich but my trigger and sailfin are covered

 

[vhuang168]

Looks like ich


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[bperau]

Ok I'm hoping out of the two that's what it is. Iv started the tank transfer method and just wanted to make sure I wasn't wasting my time

 

[bperau]

Anyone else have an opinion?

 

[Maritimer]

Copper would work for either ich _or_ velvet ... at this point, that's the route I'd take. Fairly quickly, if there's any possibility of velvet.

~Bruce

 

[bperau]

I just got some cupramine so I just need a test kit and maybe I'll go that route. Having trouble with ammonia

 

[Maritimer]

Can you get hold of some of the "bacteria-in-a-bottle"?

Otherwise, water changes.

Monitor ammonia with a badge, ammonia test kits don't work as well as you'd like with copper in the water. (You may already know this, but . . . )

~Bruce

 

[bperau]

I did not know that. Iv never done copper so I gotta look up some tips

 

[Maritimer]

Another tip off the top of my head ... raise copper levels gradually, over several days. (Unless you're dealing with velvet - then you've got to balance the gradual rise in copper levels with the fact that velvet can wipe out a tank in just days . . . )

~Bruce