Poorly Guppy

[Mr&Mrs Newb McFish]

hi just got some guppies and one of them is not looking too well.

Noticed this morning that it wasn't using one of it fins on the side.

Just had a look now and it seems to have small white patches on its body, does anybody know what this could be and if i can treat it and will it infect my other fish.

 

[james_fish]

If they are like little spots, then it is probably white spot. And yes it can spread and affect other fish in your tank.

If it is white spot, increase temperature to around 29-30 and increase aeriation.

 

[Mr&Mrs Newb McFish]

thanks, yes they are little spots, putting the temp up won,t harm my other fish will it.

i have 2 pregnant mollies in there don't want anything to happen to them.

 

[Mr&Mrs Newb McFish]

well i have just found the guppy dead on the bottom of the tank and after taking her out have had a close look at her and can see no white spots on her at all. does this mean that she didn't have white spot and the others will be ok or should i still treat the other fish just in case. thanks for the advice

 

[omega59]

Hi sorry to hear. Sounds like ich to me. They fall off when temp is raised. This is the cycle...
Water quality is poor causing ich to form, or a new fish was added that has it, or stress.
Raise the the temp makes them fall off. Use medication to clear it all out even do a second round of meds even if it appeared gone or treatement had ran a first course.
In my experiance once you see the spots it's hard to clear out and all my fish that had ich died even after treatment.

 

[OldMan47]

White spot, ich, is a disease caused by parasites and looks like salt grains on the fish. Each individual spot is only about the size and shape of a grain of salt. It is not patches of white color on the fishes body. One of the reasons I hate seeing it called white spot is because people generalize that any white spot might be the disease. Areas of whitish coloring is far more likely to be a columnaris infection. Please get pictures of your fish and post them in the tropical emergencies section of the forum. People there are more likely to be familiar with proper treatments for disease. The pictures are needed because we all mean something different when our descriptions seem to be the same. The pictures help eliminate the limitations of our ability to describe things clearly enough. Do not ever start a treatment regime until you are certain of the disease that is present. That is just a way to cause unnecessary stress in your fish from the medications themselves.