Help With Treatment Of Whitespot

[spaandangle]

Hi all, I have just recently noticed changes in my fish. White spots on body and fins. I treated my tank with whitespot treatment on Thursday (3days ago), should i add another dose tomorrow Sunday (on 4th day) after i do a water change? Should i do a water change? How much? How often should i syphen gravel?

Should i treat in the following days 1, 4, 7,10, 13, and 16, and what dosage do i use for a 40l tank (i added 2.5ml on first dose)

I am so sorry for all the questions, but i am very new at taking care of fish, i go to the local fish shop and receive very conflicting information, which in turn has caused 6 fish to die. I have also done some research on the internet but yet again one says do this and the other says do that.....

I have a 40l tank
pump
filter
heater
plants

When i change the water, i syphen gravel and remove 20% of water.
Add new water treated with tetra AquaSafe.
Last water change i was also advised to add good bacteria cycle, which i did (should i continue this?)

Many Thanks for all the help!!!

Spaandangle

Forgot to add

I now have 3 goldfish and 1 dino.
I test the water ever week and my levels are

pH 6.5, N-2 0, N03 80, KH 240, GH 180 (i have very hard water in my area) test strip does not messure ammonia levels.

since i started treatment i set water temperature at 26C.

Many thanks again and all other help welcomed!!!!

 

[WILDER]

What med are you using.
Just follow med instructions.

I would rehome the goldifsh once the whitespot has cleared up as the tanks way to small for them.

Common goldifsh need 20 gallons for the first goldifsh and 10 gallons for every other one added.
Fancy goldfish 15 gallons for the first one, and 10 gallons for every other one added.
Also they need double fileration as goldfish they are massive waste producers.
Not sure what a dino is.

Test strip cards are not accurate. Liquid test kits are the best.
If you have to maintance the tank or a water change during a med course, you just add the correct amount of med back to water removed.

 

[spaandangle]

Thanks for info. I am currently using interpet number 6. i have followed the med instructions, but after reading other posts on forum i am not sure that just 2 treatment is enough to kill off all the whitespot - will it not come back in a few months?

As for the size i am not sure that it is too small, i have a 2ft tank, is this really too small?
I will get a new water testing kit - any recommendations???

Now i the fish seem to being doing well, no more white spots, but now one of the goldfish seems to be loosing his/her tail fin which i guess is finrot. Read med instruction and cannot use the whitespot treatment and finrot treatment at the same time!! What am i to do. The fish is not the same, just resting on the bottom and not very active!!!

What do i do i do not want to loose another fish!!!!

 

[WILDER]

Best to treat whitespot one more week when spots have gone.
The tanks is severely overstocked.

Finrot common on top of whitespot.
Seen any fish nipping the fish fins.

 

[spaandangle]

Do you know how many litres per fish - i dont have another tank

Haven't seen any fish nipping the fins. Do i treat the finrot?

When would i do a water change? What percentage of the water should i change? Is it also true that you should only change the water during the week rather than the weekend?

Thanks for your help

 

[WILDER]

I've only used whitespot med once and that was years ago and forgotten the interpet dosing instructions.

I would just do a gravel vac and add the correct amount of med back to water removed.
Sometimes the whitespot med clears the finrot up.
I would remove 30% of the water.
You can preform water changes anytime.

 

[Anna Robinson]

You can use API's Melafix finrot medication at the same time as their whitespot treatment if you need to. I don't know if that also applies with other companies' whitespot treatments - without compatibility tests you cannot be sure - but since many whitespot treatments use similar chemicals, and Melafix is an entirely natural product, common sense suggests you should be OK to use the two together.

 

[OldMan47]

For whitespot, it is important to continue treatment at least a week after you no longer see any signs of the spots. The treatments do not kill the ich parasite that is on the fish, they prevent re-infection by killing the free-swimming form of the parasite. That means that the spots disappear from the fish gradually as they mature and open up to drop the parasites to the substrate to continue their life cycle. At the next stage the parasites can be killed by the treatment and prevent infestations from happening again. If you don't treat after all signs of spots are gone, you are allowing the last ich parasites to reproduce and infest the fish again. With the typical cold water of a goldfish tank, that means a full week after all spots are gone although the warmer tropical tank should theoretically be OK after only 4 or 5 days.
I have used the salt and heat treatment on the rare occasion that I have seen ich in my tanks and had 100% cure rates so far. I cannot say the same about my experiences years ago when I did not understand the ich life cycle. For a detailed read on that life cycle, there is a link in my signature area to ich info.

 

[spaandangle]

Lost another fish.... the one that seemed to have the finrot. the other fish seem to be fine.

Thanks for all the help