Should I Kill A Neon Tetra

[commoncarp]

I recently bought some Neons and one of them has two white spots on his fins, it could be fin rot but where the fish is so small I can't really tell! I don't want an outbreak of whitespot due to this fish, would it be best to put the fish out of his misery?

Water stats are fine, plus they get a daily water change.

 

[danb]

No thats cruel. The tank needs to be treated for whitespot now. Go get some meds. Why are you doing a daily water change?

 

[commoncarp]

I do daily water changes to keep my nitrites at 0, if left for 24hrs+ they goto about 0.25 (had the tank about 6-7 weeks), I think it would be best to put the fish out of its misery and to stop an outbreak of white spot and killing fish. Would freezing the fish be a good idea?

 

[danb]

Are you being serious? now the fish is in the tank the WHOLE tank has whitespot. Whats your problem with going buying some whitespot medication? Im guessing you've done a fish in cycle then? Whats your tank size? stocking? water perams?

 

[jacko32]

I do daily water changes to keep my nitrites at 0, if left for 24hrs+ they goto about 0.25 (had the tank about 6-7 weeks), I think it would be best to put the fish out of its misery and to stop an outbreak of white spot and killing fish. Would freezing the fish be a good idea?

everytime a fish gets sick are you just going to kill it if so your in the wrong hobby if that fish has got whit spot taking itout the tank wont stop the rest of the fish getting it now you need to treat the whole tank for white spot as it lives in the substrate and is free swimming untill it finds a new host if you do the treatment chances are you can save the sick fish anyway
goodluck

 

[commoncarp]

I don't want to use treatment as the copper will kill my shrimps, I am also not 100% sure its white spot as the neon is not brushing up against anything, might just be fin rot so am not sure! I also don't want to take my filter sponges out the tank as the tank is still cycling, they are the reasons why I don't want to use treatment. I will keep a close eye on the neon and see if the problem gets worse.

 

[danb]

sigh, sounds like your in the wrong hobby my friend. Dose the main tank with a whitespot treatment that doesnt contain copper, move the neon to a quarantine tank and dose with copper if its safe for the tetra too have the copper treatment. You can't just kill it cause it has a disease, it was your choice to buy it; now look after it, it cannot look after itself ..............

 

[commoncarp]

If another spot appears I will treat the tank for ick, I have some Myxafin (think this is the spelling) will treat the tank with this, where should I keep my Filter Sponges whilst treating the water, as don't want to lose the bacteria???

 

[danb]

your filter needs the sponges. The meds shouldnt really take out too much bacteria, read the instructions . . .

 

[commoncarp]

I have read with medicines that you need to remove the filter sponges?

 

[Truck]

Only with antibiotics, which these meds aren't

 

[commoncarp]

Okay so I will leave my filter sponges but my Fluval U2 also has BIOMAX should I remove this???

 

[danb]

remove the black carbon pads thats all.

 

[commoncarp]

This could be a false alarm, I have just looked at the fish and he now only has 1 spot so maybe a spec of something was attached to his fin! but there is a spot at the bottom of his dorsal fin. I will still add some Myxain just in case.

Cheers

 

[jacko32]

so if it had 2 spots and now its only got 1 the likely thing is the other has fallen off and dropped its spaws in the substrate you only need to take activated carbon out of your filter