Red Cherry Barb Disease on Top of Body

[colo3000]

Tank Parameters:

pH: 6.9

Nitrates: 25ppm

Hardness: 150ppm

Nitrite: 0

Ammonia: 0

KH/Buffer: 40-80ppm

Water Temperature: 82F

Hello, I recently had a heater malfunction resulting in my tank dropping in temperature and an ick outbreak. All of my fish have recovered from ick after treating them with Ich-X. This one cherry barb seems to have developed an infection on his head and I have moved him to a quarantine tank with salt. I was wondering what specifically this infection is and what else I should be doing to treat it. His scales seems to be raising and the infection appears white. Thank you.

 

Edited August 11, 2021 by colo3000
Added description of infection to go along with the pictures

[Colu]

Depending on how much salt your using I would do is up it 1 table spoon for 1 gallons and do a of maracyn

[heidigirl99]

So, you may want to check out this link 

apparently that symptom *could be* one of the first signs of dropsy. 

 

[colo3000]

Update!

For anyone wondering I put him in a quarantine tank with 1 tablespoon of salt per 1-2 gallons and he seems to be improving. I believe the scales that were raised on him have since fallen off and I've not seen anymore of his scales become raised. I'm continuing to monitor him and will probably keep him in there for another week.

Thanks for all the replies!

Edited August 15, 2021 by colo3000