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He looks like my Schatten :) but I think mine has some green and red spots on his fins and face, like a green beard! ahaha Also his fin is bigger and round... but the color is very similar, the same eyes too.

In the end, I just discovered it was not fungus. Schatten hurt himself on the stones that I put in the bottom of the tank. I took them off and bought an anti-fungus remedy just to prevent the wound to get infected and to help it to heal. The white spot is the result of healing. I discovered that...

I just recognize that Schatten sometimes falls to the bottom of the tank suddenly and I thought it might has something to do with the quality of the water. Like he had lost the equilibrium or something. He now likes to sleep like dropped dead hahaha... he didn't do that before... it's funny...

I change the water just once per week and I don't check the water parameters, because I don't have the items for that. I really should buy them after this event and start changing the water more frequently :(

Good news. I finished the salt bath and it looks like the "cotton ball" fell down and now it's looking like his "cheek" is dirty in soft white yet. I will change part of his water again tomorrow and give him another salt bath until it goes away.

I'm taking him a salt bath right now. Put three sugar spoons of table salt on 1 L of water and will keep him for a while here before putting him back in his tank. Tomorrow I will search for an antifungal too, but I saw some people that didn't even need any remedy too... I will keep an eye anyway.

I have no idea what happened. Maybe he swimmed across the stones too fastly and then it happened. His fin is too thin and soft, so it happens too easily.   I don't think it looks like salt, because it's really soft, like cotton. Talking about salt, I read about adding table salt to the tank in...

  Thanks for your comment, Blondielovesfish! I remember of you from the last time. Schatten recovered very well from the his torn fin, but he torned it again later hahaha... I'm not able to have a bigger tank 20L, but I will be changing his water daily from now on.   I don't believe it's ICH...

  Hi, SimpleDog. Thanks for the answer. It's very hard to see, because the fish is very small... did you click on the thumbnail? Then the picture gets bigger... but unfortunately it has some texture... I don't believe it's his pigment, because it's very different from his body and it's like wart...

Hi everyone, here I come again with my dearest Schatten. I just noticed he is with two white spots on his head, a very small one and another bigger under the first. I read some info and I was thinking if it would be fungus or something, if he maybe hurt himself on the rocks in the bottom of the...

Ok. Thanks a lot for your help! When he gets better, I post the news around here.

By 50% freshwater you mean I need to put new dechlorinated water or just take half of the water off and just add more from the sink? He is always with me by the side of my computer, close to the notebook's cooler, so I believe it's a little bit warm for him lol... but I will manage to leave him...

Yes, you're right, I know it's a small tank, but I'm afraid I would have no place to put such a big tank as a 20L one. Still, I'm going to see that during the week. But could you answer me if his fin will get better? I mean, what will happen to it and if I can do something by now with this 2L...

The tank is small, just 2l. I don't use anything to check the water quality, but I use a product to regulate the chlorine and clean it every week. I just cycled it today, by the way. Never had problems with my fish and I just left him alone for like 4 hours and this happened :( that's why I...