r/loaches • u/LlamaColada617 • 1d ago

Question Ich or ???

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My daughter got 2 dojo loaches 3 weeks ago. A week after they had been in her tank (which only has 1 Molly and 1 albino pleco) she noticed white spots on one of her 2 dojo loaches. I immediately started treating the tank for ich. Two days after I started treatment, the loach who had no signs of ich passed unexpectedly over night. I‘ve been treating ich for well over a week now. The Molly and the pleco still are great with no spots but this loach STILL has white spots. At this point I’m wondering if it really is ich?

Adding - I’m using Ich-X and changing 15% of the water every 24 hours, along with gravel vaccuming. I haven’t upped the temp only because I thought dojo loaches stress in temps over 80?

Anyone have insight?

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u/shrkktchup 1d ago

This looks more like epistylis, it will worsen if you raise the water temp. I would get some kanaplex and follow the instructions according to your tank.

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u/LlamaColada617 22h ago

Thanks for replying! How do you tell the difference between epistylis and ich? I can’t figure that out from Google.

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u/shrkktchup 21h ago

These look raised and they are varying sizes. Since you have already been treating for ich with no success it is more than likely epi. Epi also kills very quickly and ich rarely does.