No worries, I'm so appreciate of your time spent helping me out.
I moved them back into the 55 gallon, and added the first dose for salt. I'll increase it over the next 36 hours, then wait 24 hours and add the quick cure.
They have a 700 gallon pond for the summer, but I don't want to put them out in that yet. The salt will kill my plants too
Next year I'll have to have something bigger to winter them in, hopefully they will be healthy and bigger
Will they get better in the 55 gallon? The salt and quick cure I can easily afford for the 55g. The Life Guard was about 5 dollars a day to treat, that was where my husband starting watching my check book.
I looked really close and did not see anything hanging of them. I looked up pictures of the anchor worms, and it don't look like that. It looks like someone took a small grain of rice and put it between the skin of the tail.
The large bumps look like sacks almost, you can see lil white specs in them. Like those lil tag moles people get, it looks like I could pinch them off. They start off flat, then grow outwards in about 12 hours to a big bump, they stick out pretty far, think of a tag mole only filled with fluid, then they pop. After the one on my ghost popped, the others had some more on them.
The one I photographed has had some of the regular white spots for weeks. They don't change. Where as these big bumps go away and just leave a scar in less than a day or two.
I'm going to pick up a microscope today. I found a few sites with photos I can match what I see to. Will a swab of the area do, or do you need to remove a white spot? How would I get the best sample?
Thanks so much! I'm feeling hopeful again
If I can just figure out what I'm fighting.