Anrgy Looking White Spot (or Is It?)

[jamie2010]

hi all.id like some advice please if you will.


juwell rio 125 33gal (us)

20% water change every week

water parameters all fine (check these religously with the weekly water change)

i run a juwell internal filter and a fluval 2plus internal.

3 clown loaches
1 bulldog plec
2 blue rams
2 kissing gouramis
1 pair sailfin mollie

right i do my water change on a wednesday evening every week,this week during my water change,after looking for a few days for 1 of my clown loaches i discovered him lying under a rock formation in the tank.
hes looking pretty grim his left pectoral fin has almost gone and hes covered in what i think is white spot.on closer inspection my two gouramis seem to have spots also.in 6 years of keeping fish iv never had white spot so i dont know what to do.im pretty sure the loach is to far gone to help but i wana make sure my other little mates dont get dosed with this "white spot".oh in addition my wife added 3 male guppies and 3 female last week.which all promtly died,could these be a factor?
so any advice on treatment and likely causes would be helpfull
thanks
jamie.

 

[The_Eggman_1972]

hi all.id like some advice please if you will.


juwell rio 125 33gal (us)

20% water change every week

water parameters all fine (check these religously with the weekly water change)

i run a juwell internal filter and a fluval 2plus internal.

3 clown loaches
1 bulldog plec
2 blue rams
2 kissing gouramis
1 pair sailfin mollie

right i do my water change on a wednesday evening every week,this week during my water change,after looking for a few days for 1 of my clown loaches i discovered him lying under a rock formation in the tank.
hes looking pretty grim his left pectoral fin has almost gone and hes covered in what i think is white spot.on closer inspection my two gouramis seem to have spots also.in 6 years of keeping fish iv never had white spot so i dont know what to do.im pretty sure the loach is to far gone to help but i wana make sure my other little mates dont get dosed with this "white spot".oh in addition my wife added 3 male guppies and 3 female last week.which all promtly died,could these be a factor?
so any advice on treatment and likely causes would be helpfull
thanks
jamie.

dude im having a nightmare myself (see my posts killer on the loose and the e updated one) so i know how sickening it is take a look here.
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=128879
Should tell you everything you need to know about the dreaded ich.

 

[jamie2010]

cheers man. thanks anyway.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah sounds like white spot, and pretty far advanced. You have to be very careful treating for ich if you have loaches/catfish as most remedies can be fatal for them. There's a pinned topic at the top which will give you all the info you need on treating it. If I was you I'd move the loaches to a hospital/quarantine tank if you can and treat them at half strength with water changes, be prepared for some losses unfortunately it's kind of inevitable. Maybe posting in the loaches section they can give you some advice on treating with them as I haven't kept them myself. You also need to treat the main tank at full strength, every fish must be treated, I say do the loaches seperately however so you can do the rest at full strength and hopefully minimise losses. And yes it probably was the guppies, they've been so inbred over the years they can be really weak and susceptible to illness, so there's a fair chance they were carrying it and bought it into your tank.

good luck

 

[jamie2010]

superb thanks.im on a nightshift,co im off to bed now.but i'll pop down lfs when im up this afternoon.and get some meds.
thanks .

 

[Miss Wiggle]

no probs. good luck