white dots

[jive]

my clown fish have these white dots on them and i dont havnt a clue what they are. and its just on the loaches. what is this?

 

[jive]

nother pic

 

[Paul_MTS]

I'm afraid you have whitespot.

if you don't have some kind of treatment for it, you should get to a fish shop ASAP, buy a treatment, then following instructions treat imediatly.

it's the most common illness yet can be a right pain to treat.

 

[jive]

thanks dude. do you know what casuese this? will it spread to the reast of my fish?

 

[Paul_MTS]

stress is the main cause.

but another way in is usally recently bought fish from a shop!

clown loach are the most open to white spot.

it will quite quickly, try to get the treatment ASAP to get on top of it. spotting it early and treatng quickly is the key!

 

[jive]

thanks so much man.

 

[myenigmaself]

For quick treatment increase the temperature of the water to up to 86 for a couple days. The fish can tolerate this but the paracites cannot. What you have is also known as ICH, or ICK. Here's a link with a lot of information:
http/badmanstropicalfish.com/meds/ick.html

If you go the medicine route (which can be a big pain because you generally have to remove any filtration with activated carbon) reduce the temperature to 80-82. This will reduce the stress on the fish but increase the potency of the meds.

You can also try adding a small amount of salt.
Here's another good link:
http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/ich.php

EDIT: The last link says you should increase the temperature to 86F, not 85F as I originally stated.

 

[NickT]

ICH (whie spot) is a pain!

if you get a malachite green/foramlin based treatment, the bottle is going to tell you to use a half dose on scale less fish. i wold recomend a 3/4 dose or full.
i tryed for weeks to cure ich at a half dose with no luck. but as soon as i did a full dose for 5 days it cleard up.

i didnt lose a single tetra khuli or guppie fry at a full dose, but i also watched carfuly for lethargy/listless behavior and also uped my airiation since MG can starve the tank of air.

the life cycle of ICH is based directly on the temp of teh tank. for instance.. at 75f the lifecycle is 27 days and at 82 its 3 days. the higher you can safely rase the temp teh faster it will grow and fall off teh fish.
you need to know this beacuse the only time ICH can be killed is in its free swiming form (not on the fish in its cyst or whitespot form)

HTH

 

[Lateral Line]

Be careful raising the temperature with loaches. They do not like it warm, and O2 levels fall as the temperatutre rises, another sure fire stresser/killer for loaches.

Salt is also a no-no with scaleless fish.

 

[G_Sharky]

That's ICH, that's why i avoid getting clown loaches cause they are really prone to ICH, they get stressed and then...BOOM!!! they have white spots.....I hope they recover.....

 

[Puffer_freak]

a medicine called Protozin is great! Turns your water blue for a bit, but is really great. It can also be used on sensitive fish like clowns, which many can't. You can't use anything with Methane Blue or something in it, as it is some kind of dye, can't remember exactly!

 

[rvm]

For quick treatment increase the temperature of the water to up to 86 for a couple days. The fish can tolerate this but the paracites cannot. What you have is also known as ICH, or ICK. Here's a link with a lot of information:
http/badmanstropicalfish.com/meds/ick.html

If you go the medicine route (which can be a big pain because you generally have to remove any filtration with activated carbon) reduce the temperature to 80-82. This will reduce the stress on the fish but increase the potency of the meds.

You can also try adding a small amount of salt.
Here's another good link:
http/www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/ich.php

EDIT: The last link says you should increase the temperature to 86F, not 85F as I originally stated.

careful with adding salt, some of the fish in that tank will not like that at all!!

 

[Bangin]

A more expensive alternative to treating ich is to put a UV sterilizer on the tank. It will clear it up-for a price, and it can prevent such problems in the future. Good luck.

 

[kevin007]

no it is not a pain, depend on which med u get, i brought some, i just up the whole bottle and it was even worse, anotehr one..i used for 3 days, boom it's gone

the brand is "aquarium products" i am very serios, not very creative but it is

 

[Sanj]

My clown loaches currently have white spot and it has spread to some other fish. I am treating with King british WS3. You treat every 48 hours until spots have gone and then 48 hours after they have gone.

Its a bugger im on the second phase and two clowns look crap the other three have no spots, but i can see some on my torpedo barbs


Hope it works.