[fishscale]

Here's what I can tell you: the colors were actually still fairly bright, the fish did not fade or become pale. However, the red area of the neon was darker than usual, his belly appeared shrunken, and there was a chip of white on the blue stripe. This did not resemble ich, as it was much larger than what ich should look like. It looked as though another fish had taken a nip out of his stripe and pulled out some scales. I raised the temp and did several water changes, but there was no change. The fish would swim to the bottom of the tank, then float slowly upwards, and swim down again. I'm paranoid now, and every time I use something in that tank, I put it through a dilute bleach dip.