pumpkincurls
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I am at my wits end with our aquarium. It started with the sudden and mysterious death of our dwarf gourami. Fine one day, dead the next- no visible signs of disease. Had water checked- all within normal limits. The next week our two platies started showing signs of illness- listlessness, a few white spots on their body. Didn't look like the dozens of pictures of Ich I found in trying to research what was wrong, but started to treat for it anyway. Both fish had no more than 4 spots on them and they looked more like tiny nodules rather than "salting". Anyway turned up the heat to 82, put salt in, and treated with Maracide for 2 weeks. In addition started to treat for secondary infections with Maracyn Plus when the male platy started to show white patches on him. After the two weeks the male platy was almost completely cleared up, but the female had gotten worse- not eating, hiding, physical signs not clearing up. The rest of the fish looked fine and were acting normal, but we continued to lose some- 1 oto, 1 danio. LFS suggested a stronger anti bacterial- so we started with Furnan 2. The male platy cleared up completely after that treatment, everyone else looked fine and survived all the meds, but the female still was going down hill- more spots!. At that point I moved her to a hospital tank not wanting to treat the main tank anymore, the other fish were starting to get stressed. She died 2 days later. Water quality got back to normal in about a week after the last dose of antibiotics and everyone was doing great. But then a week later, 2 wks after the last treatment, the male platy developed his white patch on his head again (but no spots thank goodness). It looks like a drop of bleach was dropped on his head. The scales have just turned pure white. It isn't fuzzy, raised, doesn't appear to be eroding away at his skin, and he is acting perfectly normal. I am completely frustrated. I can't find anything on the net or in books that really come close to identifying what it is. I don't want to keep pour meds in the tank, but I don't want him to infect the others if there is something wrong. I don't want to treat him with more meds either unless I know what it is. I tested the water again today and everything is normal. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it!