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Is there a disease that looks like ich but only lasts 24 hours or less?

April 26, 2017disease hours ich lasts looks

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Is there a disease that looks like ich but only lasts 24 hours or less?

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Appears about once a month, usually on one fish at a time, 2-4 lesions which are larger than ich seen at the LFS. I need to find a new home for some of the fish exposed but don’t want to spread it, whatever it is. I have a 20 and can move all fish to it, treat, and let the system go fallow, but am not sure what I am treating. During a recent heat wave had another episode of the 1 day “ich” followed by severe disruption of the skin of a yellow clown goby. An orange spot filefish had 2 white spots on the dorsal, one of which left a bullseye shape in hazy white the next day, no red. Following day it did not eat, kept the file up, got pale, bloated, and laid on its side. Both fish had 2 spots which disappeared for 2 days, then they got seriously ill. Am thinking secondary infection of the parasite wo