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Freshwater ick?

April 26, 2017freshwater ick

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Freshwater ick?

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Hi folks, First off, thanks for all of the great info you offer on your website! I’ve been an avid reader since I started the hobby a few months ago. I think I have an outbreak of ick in my 29 gallon freshwater tank. I haven’t introduced anything new to my tank for about a month. The tank has been up for about 3 months. Right now I have 3 platies, 6 penguin tetras, 3 panda Corys, 2 spotted Corys, 3 dwarf Gouramis, 3 Oto catfish and a rainbow shark. I just noticed that one of the platies has a white, round, fuzzy growth under her bottom lip. It seems bigger than the pictures of ick that I have seen online so I’m not sure it is ick. Maybe a fungus or something? The water parameters have been stable and pretty good (nitrates at 5, nitrites at 0, ammonia at 0) except for some unknown reason the pH started dropping