White Spot?

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smeggbert

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Ammonia & Nitrite both at zero using API liquid test kit, Nitrates at a healthy level (weekly water change just completed).

My Honey Gourami has become a little lethargic, with small sugar grain like white lumps on his fins, also his fins have become fully flared and seems a little spikier than usual (see below pictures). Swimming is a little unbalanced. Typically all the symptoms of a dead fish, basically. I think it may be White Spot, the only thing telling me that it may not be, is none of my other fish have any symptoms at all (6 Black Phantoms).

Dose with Iron every week with the weekly 20% water change.

No new fish added recently.

Also, I have found a sack of what I can only presume are eggs gathered on a plant. Translucent goo, with brown lumps inside. Any idea what these are?

Pics Below.

Any ideas about diagnosis and treatment, because if it is white spot I'd rather not lose my entire stock.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u261/smeggbert/photo7.jpg

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u261/smeggbert/photo6.jpg

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http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u261/smeggbert/photo3.jpg

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u261/smeggbert/photo2.jpg

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u261/smeggbert/photo1.jpg
 
Lost my Honey Gourami overnight.

Any advice would be really helpful, no idea what's going on.

None of my other fish are showing symptoms yet.
 
Looks like white spot.

Turn your temperature up a bit. That speeds the lifecycle of the ich. I'd do this anyways as it wont hurt the fish.

I'd go to like 29deg.

Also if you have any aquarium salt add a bit or buy some ich treatment to put through your tank. Make sure you take out carbon in your filter if you use this as the carbon will remove the treatment.

A couple of good links on treating ich but more in depth to my brief straight to the point answers:

http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/ich.php

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa006
 

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