The Best Whitespot Treatment To Use

[emilythestrange]

Hi, my whitespot is at its worst, yet again, ive lost 3 platies... also i didnt know amano shrimps would eat at a fish that was breathing, but nearly lifeless!!! it really freaked me out!


I read the treatment bottles that i already had (waterlife) for whitespot. but i cant use it at all with shrimps.

I have shrimps and a corydora. so im unsure of which treatment is safe for use for both.

please help!

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Can you put the shrimp in a spare tank or plastic tub, with a small sponge filter (using a bit of mature media from someone else's tank that is disease free)? Waterlife Protozin is good stuff, once I got some good advice (regarding temperature/fry/salinity with a loach in the tank) back in February and acted on it, it saved the remaining fish (having lost a whole group of growing Synodontis decora; a Synodontis nigriventris and poor Lionhead Cichlid "dad" from my profile photo).

I have no experience of medicating with shrimps, so I have no idea if you could use a bit of your own media in this tank/tub knowing that the shrimp will not get infected (I would guess they would be immune because of their exoskeleton, but I could very well be wrong and there is always the long term issue of perhaps re-introducing Ich to the main tank when you re-introduce the shrimp)

 

[emilythestrange]

i dont know anyone who has a tank, and i dont have one to house the three shrimps. i only just got them too. but i couldnt see any disease then
also im moving house soon.

 

[emilythestrange]

bump

 

[KISSfn]

Kordon Ich Attack.

http/www.novalek.com/kordon/ich_attack/index.htm

 

[mctavish132]

Have you already tried the heat a salt treatment? I have very effectively gotten rid of a bad whitespot outbreak with a red clawed crab in the tank and 3 corys, using 1tbsp per 5 gallon and keeping the tank at 86F for at least 5 days. My corys have never shown signs of stress at 1tbsp per 5 gallons, although anything higher in my experience stresses them quite a bit. As far as I know all shrimps can definitely handle this salt level aswell. Make sure its aquarium salt and not marine or sea salt as this could possibly harm your inhabitants.

Edit: Ich Attack as mentioned above seems quite promising too. I am tempted to get some my self just in case.

 

[Essjay]

My amanos survived treating the tank with king british original formula ws3. I moved my snails to another tank, but they were easy to catch. The shrimps were impossible to catch so they had to take their chances. They did hide throughout the duration of treatment but were back out and about once the med was removed from the tank afterwards. That was around a year ago and they are all still alive. (That'll teach me to quarantine new fish)
I should add that I used half dose because I have dwarf chain loaches - they came through unscathed as well.

 

[emilythestrange]

I cant find kordon ich on ebay, and on google shopping Its reasonable but, the shipping is quadruple the price!! please note im in the UK many thanks

 

[emilythestrange]

anyone else got any ideas for treatment?

 

[KISSfn]

Did you try ordering Kordon Ich Attack from Amazon.com?

 

[Essjay]

King british original formula ws3.

Worked for me and didn't kill my amanos or loaches at half dose. And the half dose still got rid of the whitespot.

 

[emilythestrange]

brought some king british ws3, did everyone use half a dose on this? i have tried other whitespot treatments in the past, however these didnt work! (interpet, waterlife..)

 

[webbie]

Esha exit white spot treatment ,used it about 6 months ago when i had an outbreak of ich ,I had 2 amano shrimps in the infected tank and they survived fine

 

[emilythestrange]

putting the second dose of whitespot treatment in the tank tonight,
Im already losing another platy. They go hollow bellied, dashing on the things in the thing, act scatty, then clamped fins, and now the last stage: swaying on the bottom of the tank

Have i diagnosed correctly?

 

[Essjay]

You haven't mentioned the fish being covered in white spots in that list. Are they? If there are no white spots (the fish looking as though they've been sprinkled with salt) then they don't have whitespot.

Flicking themselves on things and clamped fins can also be symptoms of poor water conditions. Going hollow bellied could also be internal bacteria or parasite infection.