Help With White Spot And Platys

[WILDER]

Where she pecking the fish as it can be a sign of illness.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

We've done a third treatment for the dreaded whitespot again this morning cos the neons were all clear apart from one which still had a couple of spots on them and was flicking but doing the treatment drove the orange one wild. She kept pecking both of the other platys. How come she is pecking them and not the neons. I've separated her again. I think the blue platy is just getting over the effects of whitespot, doing my head in x

 

[WILDER]

It would do my head in as well.
Good luck.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

We took another water sample to the LFS today and she tested it and we still had a nitrite problem so she said it must be our gravel cos apart from plants and fish we have nothing else in there. So she gave us some gravel that she had taken out of a tank as she is retiring. We took out all our gravel, did a 100% water change and put in her gravel. We now have frigging snails, we've spotted 6, they look like ice cream cones, what are they x

 

[WILDER]

I wouldn't of added the lfs gravel due to desease.
Don't know what type of snails they are ask in inverts.
What are your water stats.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

Well as I'm saying this I'm touching everything wooden but at last the nitrite is 0 and clear instead of the bright pink reading it was yesterday. The fish seem really really happy, the white platys fins are up instead of clamped to its body, all the fishes gills aren't as pink, they look so much happier and I've done some research and we've got the malaysian trumpet snails which just come out at night and eat all the crap in the tank. I wonder why it was the old gravel cos it was bought from a proper fish shop. I hope they don't get diseases but we saw the tank the gravel was coming out of and I checked all the fish and they seemed really healthy, no white spot, no pink gills, all eyes looked normal. A lad was coming for the fish and the water they were in and then she called us when the gravel was bagged and ready to pick up. I bet cos it was daytime that's why we didn't know we had these snails. You can't see any in the tank at the moment. I'm still going to test daily for the nitrate and I've bought a proper test kit that doesn't the ammonia as well off ebay just to be sure xx

 

[WILDER]

Glad things are back on track.
Good luck.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

Thanks chick, everything is still ok, but I've had to separate the platys again as the orange one is pecking the blue one and the white one yet again, she's relentless, how are they supposed to recover if she keeps pecking them or they are stuck in a little hospital tank tut. I just don't know what to do. I feel like getting rid of the orange one, but that's just silly isn't it, I'm getting rid of the healthy fish and keeping the two that are recovering x

 

[WILDER]

Time out for the orange one in a container at the top of the tank to see if that does anything.
If not yes will have to rehome i'm afraid.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

We keep periodically separating the orange one away from them both but then it goes mad inside the hospital tank and we are concerned it will damage itself. Where would I rehome it? x

 

[WILDER]

Lfs or someone who willing to take it off your hands, but most of the time just passing the problem on.
No easy answers only having it in a tank on its own then it will be bored.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

Well we've done tests on the tank now for 3 days and everything is perfect. I received the bigger interpet kit from ebay yesterday and did ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and ph and everything was perfect I'm so pleased. The blue platy seems a lot happier but the orange platy is still picking on the white platy. When it doesn't the white platy seems perfectly happy swimming around. Although it doesn't swim strongly its a lot better than it was, until the orange one starts picking on it again, so its back in the hospital tank bless it. Its top fins are up a little bit more but not as much as they should be and its bottom fins just sort of trail behind it, its a male so I don't know if that's just normal, there is a tiny little red dot on its anus but it doesn't look swelled so I don't know if that's anything. Its kinda thin but males are thinner than females aren't they, apart from that there's nothing else on it, its eating normally and perks up when its fed but it doesn't seem to be putting any weight on, surely if there was something really wrong with it it would have died by now wouldn't it? x

 

[WILDER]

If you have a tiny red dot and the fish is thin sounds like internal parasites.

 

[amanda8beechwood]

What's the best treatment for this x

 

[WILDER]

Whats your location.