Hi,
I have had this little comet for a little over two weeks and he/she is quarantined in a 10 gal with a filter good for 20 gals, which I’ve been monitoring.
water parameters appear good except pH was 8 when I tested earlier.
please see the attached videos, I tried to capture the white spot on the head as best as I could. It doesn’t seem fluffy like fungus, it doesn’t look red/bloody like a lesion, and there are no visible small white spots anywhere else.
behavior seems typical- eating, foraging, swimming around a lot unless resting at night.
does swim to the walls and corners sometimes but is not flashing/darting into plants or gravel and not rubbing up on walls.
i wonder if the air stone I’ve been struggling to secure beneath the gravel could have caused harm but the fish mostly swims through the bubbles and avoid the stone.
im really stumped, any insights would be greatly appreciated.
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