Mark on Keyholes head

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Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10-20 (but has been at about 60 last week)

This kind of looks like a scrape to me, but I wanted to check that it wasn't something a little more sinister like HITH?
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Does it look indented or scuffed?
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That’s a scrape for me. Not paying attention to the road ahead.
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fr499y wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 18:35 pm Does it look indented or scuffed?
Just scuffed.
black ghost wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 18:47 pm That’s a scrape for me. Not paying attention to the road ahead.
I think so as well. Just wanted a second opinion. I'll keep an eye out over the coming days.

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If it was HITH it would’ve started from nowt as a little round hole and you’d have noticed it a while ago, methinks. :)
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black ghost wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 19:56 pm If it was HITH it would’ve started from nowt as a little round hole and you’d have noticed it a while ago, methinks. :)
Yup, scuff certainly seems more likely than HITH 😊 I found keyholes to be easily spooked.
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This seems to have turned into white spot or something similar. A lesson in why you should quarantine new fish. You can see a couple of slots on its head in the photo above.
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All of my Keyholes are affected by it. Before I get a white spot treatment, is it definitely white spot?
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Are all the spots identical… round and the same size? Doesn’t look it to me.
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