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Good afternoon!
Out of the blue several of my golden White Cloud Mountain minnows look like they have a fine dusting of pepper on their backs, I’m assuming this is black spot disease likely introduced by a stowaway snail on one of the marginal plants I recently bought (no water birds have ever found my little puddle of a pond as far as I know). Just looking for confirmation if anyone else has seen this in person in their fish. Wasn’t necessarily planning to do anything about it if it is BSD. It’s perhaps 3-4 minnows affected, not visible on any other fish at this time. The spots look black in real life, but appear a bit reddish in the photos, which frankly I’m amazed I got any of 1.25” minnows darting around with dust mote sized spots on their backs. Water parameters are A OK when checked last week (zeroes across the board), only thing new is started adding some flourish liquid plant fertilizer but obviously not pouring it directly on the fish
Out of the blue several of my golden White Cloud Mountain minnows look like they have a fine dusting of pepper on their backs, I’m assuming this is black spot disease likely introduced by a stowaway snail on one of the marginal plants I recently bought (no water birds have ever found my little puddle of a pond as far as I know). Just looking for confirmation if anyone else has seen this in person in their fish. Wasn’t necessarily planning to do anything about it if it is BSD. It’s perhaps 3-4 minnows affected, not visible on any other fish at this time. The spots look black in real life, but appear a bit reddish in the photos, which frankly I’m amazed I got any of 1.25” minnows darting around with dust mote sized spots on their backs. Water parameters are A OK when checked last week (zeroes across the board), only thing new is started adding some flourish liquid plant fertilizer but obviously not pouring it directly on the fish