I noticed about a month ago that two of my tosai had developed a white fuzzy mucus on them. The Chagoi has it on it's right barbel, and the Gin Shiro Utsuri has it a little more severe on all of it's barbels and I think on the tip of it's mouth, as well as something on it's tail. They are about 4" so it's really hard to observe or to take a good photo.
Anybody ever seen this on their fish before? Is this some type of bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection in-the-making...or just "plain old carp pox"?
The water temperature has been rising here in the bay area, and it's usually around 65-75F.
When I got it earlier this year, the Gin SU had proven to be quite a problematic newcomer during the treatment in the QT...developing unexplainable white spots on it's tail and dorsal. Encysted form of anchor worm, ich, or carp pox; I don't know what it actually was but it was all gone by the time it joined the main pond.
Again it's been like this for the past month so I'm wondering whether I should pull them out and perform a shotgun treatment or leave them be.