Feed heavy and add Selcon. I had the same and Reefaholic recommended it. Worked like a charm.
In fact, I add Selcon to frozen food now and feed that. I saved my Achilles and it’s beautiful now. Eats like a pig.
Agree with this. It's not a death sentence. With all of my fish, I went through an excruciating qt process and when I added my powder blue recently, the same thing happened. Both the Achilles and the PBT had a few white dots show up. And the Achilles had been with me for years with nothing. I was highly upset at first. But after a while, the dots went away and none of my other fish were adversely affected. I still see a tiny white dot or two pop up from time to time, but only on the Achilles or PBT.
I think having a lot of water volume helps dilute any parasites, and keeping your fishes immune system healthy is equally as important. I also run a UV which I think helps. I still qt everything like crazy but have come to the understanding that somehow, some way, those damn parasites will somehow sneak their way into your tank just to piss you off.
What the difference is between a dot from time to time and a full blown outbreak where fish start dying is still up for debate in my opinion. Thank goodness I've only ever had a full blown outbreak in QT as it should be. The only thing that makes sense is that they were able to achieve a higher concentration of parasites in a smaller volume of water in the QT tank. This was back when I only did TTM, and the reason why I quit doing TTM and started using CP instead.
