Don't think it's ich

[godsdoc]

I purchased two juvenille black clownfish on Sept 19th and shortly after getting them I noticed the larger one (.75") had a small white spot on one of his gills. At first I wasn't sure it was anything other than a piece of sand or something but then it got a bit larger and the smaller one now had a small white spot on its gill (I don't think this is relavent but the opposite side). So once they both had spots I immediately assumed ich. I set up a quarantine tank (I originally put them in their own 29 gallon tank but had live sand and live rock along with a couple crabs and snails) and got some cupramine to start treating them the full does was added on Oct 14th. It has been a week since all the cupramine was added and about a month since the spots showed up. The spots did not drop off and have only gotten larger I would say about the size of two large course grains of salt kind of stacked on eachother.
I am thinking that it's not ich but I am not sure what it would be other than a Lymphocyctis virus (complete guess but about the best I can figure)

Parameters of the tank are as follows
10 gallon
sponge filter
heater (keeping temp around 78)
a couple pvc pipes (black, if that's important)
bare bottom
temp 78
salinity 1.024
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate <.05

Here is a video and you can see a bit of the spots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbRXmQH4vo

 

[krzyphsygy]

I personally dont think its ich, but I am not an expert on the subject matter. The black colors on the clowns should be a dead give away and unless I am blind which is quit possible, I did not see any thing that looked like ich. I would let it ride out. Yoy already have them in QT along with copper treatment, might as well keep it going. It very well could be sand or something. Maybe a bubble or something.
If you feed from a bastor and the fish are used to it, try to blow it off with out stressing them out.

 

[laurie64]

It does not look like ich to me, maybe lymph. If so you can't do much, just keep go warer quality and it should go away onits own.

 

[b0bab0ey]

It does not look like ich to me, maybe lymph. If so you can't do much, just keep go warer quality and it should go away onits own.

+1 I think it's probably Lympho

You can also soak fish food in a vitamin supplement (Selcon/Zoecon/Vita-chem) to bolster their immune system.