Hello everybody! im new to the forum, ive been readin arround and ive seen theres is a lot of people that knows a lot (wich makes me happy ) I have a questio regardin white spot.

I read there is a lot of medication offered in pet stores and stuff, but i live in Costa Rica and there arent actually many good stores or they dont offer a lot of products.

I recently added a blue tang to my fish tank, since day one he was like scratching against rocks, i though it was normal, then the famous white spot appeard.

I read bout temperature getting hotter actually helping with the problem, but i dont have a termostate.

I bought Pimafix, has anyone tried it ? or the medicaded food called Spectrum?

I was also told bout treating the fish separetlywith formaline.

thank you guys

Hi all new to the tropical fish world.. have been keeping axies up till now..

Question - Two of my fish are currently infected with white spot, both clown loaches, but no so keen using treatment's containing Malachite green and Methylene Blue.. Was wondering if anyone could suggest an alternative treatment.

Some ich meds can interfere with the benificial bacteria in the tank. Some fish also become stressed with some meds.

I had a clown loach with ich along time ago. I was reluctant to use meds. I searched on the loach forum that many people have used salt, but I have also read that salt was bad for loaches, but I decided to give it a try. I remember reading somewhere that fish can adjust small amounts of salinity in the water, ich cannot. I used aquarium salt, regular dosage, but I made sure the salt was dissolved in water first. Then I poure the solution in the tank slowly over a long period of time. I also increased the temp in the tank, since higher temps increases their life cycle. I also reduced the light to only a few hours a day. The reason I figured was, stress causes illnesses in fish. If the fish slept/rested, this would reduce the stress, which is why I reduced the amount of light. I also performed gravel cleanings and water changes more frequent. About a week or so later, there were no more signs of ich on the fish. I kept the treatment for another week just in case. All my fish survived, including all my clown loaches, L-018 gold nugget pleco, cardinal tetras, dwarf gouramis, & 2 angelfish.

I understand all of the steps but have a few problems. I just switched tanks and last night my levels began to spike because we bought new rock and drift wood for the new tank. Now I have ich and am not sure to do a 50 water change because we are just now spiking and don't want to go through it again. my tank is also set on 74 which I don't know if changing that would kill my fish. Also most of my fish are scaleless, can they get ich too or can I just put my scaled fish in a quarrentine tank. Please help

I just found a few white spots on my Botia kubotai loach. I had ich for the first time back in October, but at that time my loach did not show any symptoms of it. Now I see some white spots on him, but thus far none of my platys, tetras, or pleco. My loach likes his hiding places, so I don't always get as good a look of him as I do my other fish. I onlu see about 3 spots, and only on the back fin...so far.

I live in the USA. What's the best type of medication for my tank? I read through this forum that ICK Guard 2 is good for loaches. Will it also treat ich for my other fish? Even though I dont see any whitespot on them right now, I assume that if the loach has it, then they do as well.

Thanks for your advice,
Mel Bowman

P.S.
Nevermind, I see whitespots on everyone. I have Parasite Clear at home...not sure if I should use it or not - ingredients: praziquantel, diflubenzuron, metronidazole, acriflavine.

This post has been edited by mbbowman: Feb 3 2007, 05:04 PM

Just thought id put my 2cents in. Abit over a week ago i had all my tanks come down with white spot. I treated it very early. It went away after 6 days. I treated it with normal white spot treatment and put the tanks up to 30'c. Some of my fish did not get it at all, 5 corys and a betta. I thought that was abit weird.



Torrens

I've had a major Ick infestation tha wiped out just over 1/2 my fish.

I've added the Victoria Green Ick medication and I treated the tank for 8 days. Then I stopped with the medication and thought all was well. About 2 days latter I saw the water go cloudy again and soon after white spots hit the fish again. I then put all fish into a first aid tank (newly bought...yes I know I should have had one earlier ) . The fish now appear fine in the first aid tank and I am obsessively cleaning out the original tank.

I have emptied all water, rinsed and scrubbed the tank and let hot shower water run over the tank for about 15 minutes
I have soaked all plastic plants, gravel and rocks in a very high salt solution which was origianlly boiling water for about a day now.
I am very concerned about the gravel. Does anyone know if boiling water will kill the eggs stage??? I cannot imagine anything surviving boiling water but would like to know before I get my tank going again and starting the process of maturing the enviromnent before reintroducing the fish. I have rinsed the gravel, boiled the heck out of it and it looks clean...but these parasites are small.
I was planning to keep the fish in the first aid tank for about 7 more days to make sure all is well.

My basic question is how can I ensure the Ick is not coming back as soon as I put the fish back.

Any help would be great. Thank you

This post has been edited by Eviltoon: Apr 28 2007, 09:22 PM

HI , I have an outbreak of white spot and have read the above with interest. I have treated with interpret-first dose then 4 days later and although most are now spot free, I still have a clown loach that is covered. I waited a week, gave another dose 2 days ago but he's still spotty... I realise that I haven't been mixing it with hot water ( mixed it with tank water then put it back in..) which maybe why it hasnt worked.... But when would it be safe to add another dose? I can't add salt as I have loaches and cat fish. Any ideas appreciated x