Can Anyone Help Me?

[Gilby77]

Hello

On Saturday 5 August I noticed an outbreak of white spot amongst my emperor tetras, I bought some Interpet White Spot Plus medication and dosed the tank on the Saturday evening. The following day I noticed that the white spot had also affected one of my two balloon mollies and a couple of my barbs. One Wednesday 9 August I added the second dose of the treatment.

The emperor tetras are now clear of white spot as are the balloon mollies and two of the barbs - I am assuming it has now left their bodies and hopefully the treatment has killed the parasite in the water, but this morning one of my green barbs who wasn't previously infected has now got white spot and looks to be in a pretty bad way. He is hanging in the water nose down and his fins are jagged where the Ich has been bothering him.

The end of the treatment cycle is tomorrow, Wednesday 16 August, and I was hoping to reinstate the carbon filter, do a 30% water change and give the gravel a good vacuum thinking that would be the end of it. However, my black marble angel fish is also looking off colour now, he is hiding beneath the wood, seems to have lost his appetite and is generally not himself, but doesn't appear to have white spot.

The question I have is, do I change the water tonight (a day earlier), say 50%, give the tank a good clean and start the treatment all over again in an attempt to eradicate Ich completely or do I just wait until tomorrow and see what happens? I have increased the temperature to 26/27 degrees.

I am very concerned about my angel fish and don't want to lose him, so any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks

Gilby

 

[d3tained]

Hi, continue the treatment as per normal.

You green barb was probally infected but the parasite was to young for you to see it.

Treat still even after all visabile signes are gone.

 

[Gilby77]

Hi, continue the treatment as per normal.

You green barb was probally infected but the parasite was to young for you to see it.

Treat still even after all visabile signes are gone.

Hi, thank you for your prompt response, can you just clarify... do you mean I should wait until tomorrow, Wednesday, change 30% of the water, hoover the gravel etc and start the treatment again for another 11 days using Interpet Anti White Spot Plus? Is is harmful to give the fish more than the normal two doses in such a short space of time?

Sorry, just want to do the right thing for them!

Thanks

 

[black angel]

Take your treatment to the end and then do a big water change with gravel vac. Did you keep the overhead light off? Malachite green loses its strength under tank lights.
A better way is to raise the temperature of the water slowly to 84C and add plenty of extra oxygen which you would need as well with malachite green.

 

[Gilby77]

Take your treatment to the end and then do a big water change with gravel vac. Did you keep the overhead light off? Malachite green loses its strength under tank lights.
A better way is to raise the temperature of the water slowly to 84C and add plenty of extra oxygen which you would need as well with malachite green.

Hi Black Angel

Thank you for your response, sadly my green barb has died, but at least he is not suffering any more.

I carried out a 30/40% water change last night and hoovered the gravel thoroughly (removed all the plants and wood from the tank to be able to get in there properly). I didn't turn the overhead light off during the treatment - the instructions didn't tell me that! Doh!

However, this morning, the fish are looking a lot happier, my black marble angel is no longer hiding at the bottom of the tank so that is a relief! However, I noticed last night that one of my small yellow fish (I can't remember what he is called, but he is similar in size to a tetra) appears to have mouth rot! I can't believe my luck at the moment, I treated the water last night with medication that treats mouth rot and he seems okay this morning, poor thing.

There is no sign of white spot in the tank now, but I will remain vigilant... I take delivery of a new much bigger tank tomorrow (current tank is 68 litres/15 gallons) which is 340 litres/76 gallons, I plan to carry out a fishless cycle and then transfer the fish, hopefully they will be a lot happier in their new home!

Gilby

Meant to say also that I have an air stone on permanently in the tank, thought this was especially important during periods of hot weather too, am assuming it is okay to leave it on 24/7!

 

[black angel]

Sorry the fish in question died. You seem to have things under control so just keep an eye on the one with mouth rot and if it starts to look worse then isolate it.