Scaredone

My recently acquired Purple Firefish has some odd spot on him/her, they almost seem like air bubbles under the skin but don't actually protrude from the body and are only visible when hes turned just the right way in the tank light. My first thought were ich but the spots are too big and aren't really white.

Hes very energetic, eats alot and is probably the most active fish ive got at the moment

Any idea what these marks are?

isis

Can you post a pic of this?

Scaredone

Ive tried but the spots don't show, they are like small reflective patches. Ill try again

Scaredone

top is best image i can get
bottom the spots disappear, sorry for being so blurry hes a tough bugger to get to stay still. I'm worried its a type of ich but he doesnt show any symptoms at all of ich

isis

Are you sure the "spots" are under the skin? And you say it looks like air under the skin? Not goldish patches on the skin perhaps?

Scaredone

they dont stick out from his body so it looks like they are under his skin. Im not too fluent on the fish lingo yet, goldfish patches?

isis

I was wondering if the color is gold (gold-ish)

Scaredone

when not in the light they disappear into his natural color white/grey, but when he turns a bit they become a bright reflective white but only when he is at certain angles from the surface

isis

I just read a blog where a guys said that his purple firefish was moulting and had white-ish spots on him. But then I also see that salt water Ich is also similar to those spots, but it also mentions that they could get spots from not eating the right kind of foods or having a deficiency...

I really hope someone on the forum will help you real soon. Unfortunately I am not an expert.

isis

Here is something you can look at - I don't see anything matching what your baby has on him... but I hope it helps:
http://www.fishlore.com/Disease_Saltwater.htm

Scaredone

yeah that was the first place i had looked and initially thought of Brooklynella hostilis a type of ich that appears in larger spots but he has none of the symptoms other than the white spots, he eats a lot, very active and colorful but does not produce the "slime" listed in this type of ich.

Also thought of this first because he lives with 3 clowns (shares a cave with my black perc )

I'm hoping its nothing major and I'll just name him Spot

isis

Oh dear!

Lets hope some of the more experienced guys on this site comes to your aid real soon!!!
Worry I couldn't help

LOL! at least he got a name from it LOL!

Scaredone

any fish pros have ideas?

isis

Hi there

How is 'spot' doing?

Scaredone

still happy as ****, being a pig i swear he eats twice as much as a clown does

isis

The spots still the same? not bigger or anything different?

Scaredone

nope same size, same places

isis

Hi there

how is your fish doing?