Help! Sterazin doesn't seem to be working!!

[pcam86]

Hi, I bought some Sterazin which is an anti parasite med and you use a dose one days 1,3,6,8 and 10 to complete the treatment. I'm now on day 6 and i just noticed one of my corys is still flicking and rubbing on the gravel a lot. There are no visible signs of white spot etc. All i can really see is that the cory that was scratching had a slightly red stomach but maybe that was from the rubbing?

My Ammonia and Nitrite are at zero. I was just wondering if there's anything else i could have missed and if you think there's any chance the Sterazin can clear the problem with only 2 more treatments to go?

 

[black angel]

What is your nitrate level?
Its still early on in the treatment and i would wait until the meds have finished the course before deciding if its worked or not. Just keep going.
Sterazin is good at getting rid of any parasite that cant be seen.

 

[WILDER]

Corys are not mean't to get whitespot from a reply inchworm made, plus i have seen it in an article somewhere, the red tummy bit worried about that, are they red patches.sometimes it can take two rounds of treatments with whitespot, like any parasite sometimes not easy to get rid of.

 

[pcam86]

my nitrate level is at zero as its a planted tank.

 

[pcam86]

ok this morning has taken a different turn as i can clearly see one of my angelfish has a lot of whitespot. Its the onlt fish in my tank that you can see it on. I've turned my temp up a little more.

Would a salt bath help at all?

 

[black angel]

a gentle salt bath may help. In a bucket put 1 gallon of temp matched dechlorinated water and add 1 and a half level teaspoons of salt and put the fish in that for 10 minutes. If the fish stops reacting to you then take it out and put it back in the tank. Do this for 3 days.
You will need to switch to protozin, so stop the meds do a 50% water change with a gravel vac and put carbon in the filter for a day. Do another 50% water change and then add the protozin as directed. Keep the temp up to 82 and the tank light off. Just before you add more meds do another water change of around 30% and do a good gravel clean too as the cysts lie in the gravel before they burst.

 

[pcam86]

why do i need to switch to protozin? I thought sterazin treats whitespot??

 

[black angel]

sterazin treats the larger parasite such as flukes. protozin treats protozoan diseases which whitespot is.

 

[BigC]

If it is whitespot you have then as mentioned above, you should be using Protozin. You will need to increase the tank temperature as whitespot can only be eradicated in it free swimming stage. When the temp is raised the lyfecycle is speeded up and the cysts burst releasing tiny protozoa to infect further hosts. At this stage you administer the medication as per instructions and keep up the dosage for the full course.
Regards
BigC

 

[pcam86]

Ok, Well i do have some interpet white spot treatment so can't i just use that instead???

If i use it will it be ok to use as i have corys, a clown plec and a synodontis???

 

[WILDER]

Read instructions carefully, should tell you, water change to remove the other med and run some black carbon for a few hours.

 

[WILDER]

Found this info for you, not the writer of it.



Don't bother! Salt will not do much to help with the whitespot and it may hurt the Corydoras (although C.paleatus is about the toughest species and the least likely to come to any harm). Corydoras are sensitive to not only salt, but also medications such as malachite green, which is in most whitespot medication, so be very careful! On the other hand, Corydoras are not very sensitive to whitespot and are unlikely to be affected - I have never seen a Corydoras with whitespot (which is not to say it could never happen). If this were me, I would move any Corydoras to another tank while treating for whitespot. The parasites which cause whitespot (Ichtyopthirius) are almost always present in aquaria. Fish are only affected by the disease when they are heavily stressed, so the cure for whitespot is to prevent infection by reducing stress! This might be metabolic stress caused by poor water quality (the commonest reason for outbreaks of whitespot is new tank syndrome), overcrowding, poor diet, bullying, or other underlying illness such as tumours, etc. Keep your water and your fish in good condition and you will not get whitespot. If you want more info,

 

[pcam86]

ok well my whitespot treatment does contain malachite green, Thing is my corys are effected by whitespot as they're scratching like crazy aswell!!! I was thinking would the treatment still work if i did a half dose or would that be pointless?

 

[black angel]

It says on my protozin to use it at half strength if you have scale less fish, so i would use it at half.

 

[Weeze]

I have had enormous problems with white spot in my tank for over one week now, as you will see from my postings "Bad case of ick" and "HELP - Loaches much worse". I have been treating with WS3, Malachite Green being the active ingredient. My corys have also been doing a lot of flicking on the gravel and ornaments. They have no visible spots on them.