White Spot Disease?

[InsaneHOH]

Hey all.
After posting about this in another apart of the forum as more of a common unknown interest post, and due to a response i got, Would like some extra opinions please if you can!

I have a Juwel Rekord 60 set up with the following guys in,
Please note i know some of these guys get big! Some of which will be shortly moving to a bigger Juwel Rio 180 once its cycled

1 chubby pleco
1 bulldog pleco
2 panda cory
1 whiptail cat
1 Cuckoo cat
1 Pictus Cat
1 baby swordtail
2 baby bristlenose cats
& a group of assassin snails

All conditions are good,. nothing been added recently, only the swordtail fry i saved from the my big tank & a couple of new amazon sword plants & a slate breeding cave
all fish appear happy and healthy

firstly i noticed my baby sword, eating some tiny little white specs "i would call them" off the baby bristlenose,

Here's a vid of the bristlenose & swordtail,
Sorry not the best quality, taken on my phone, But i could see the tiny little white dots, and the fry was picking them off one by one and eating them, which the bristlenose seem quite happy to let him do

it was kinda like he was just cleaning the bristle nose, like those doctor fish things do in the sea, eating parasites etc
there most of only been about 10 spec on the bristle, which he finished off!



None of the other fish have these white specs on, apart from the bulldog.
here's a few pics and video of the bulldog, as you can see, only a few on his head, and been like that last couple of days, no more appearing, no less., and he's probably the most happy lively fish in there,
also comes to say hello..

also as i was told when buying my Pictus Cat, these are quite prown to whitespot if stressed and conditions and temps are right, and he's fine!

anyway, click here for the video - Bulldog video

I have had white spot disease before in my other tank on a clown loach about a year ago. which was all treated and cleared up,. and never seen since, and that looked nothing like this,
can anyone identify what it is, to me, kinda looks like a egg of some sort, like a flea egg.
also as some may of scene i did have a weird out break of underwater caterpillars a couple of weeks ago in these tank, which i removed all of

any thoughts please! I don't really want to treat the tank if i don't need to.
many thanx
Ben

 

[Carlovel1]

Looks like early stages of Ick, better to treat it now rather than later when it will be harder

 

[dayzofspeed]

i have just had a case of whitespot also and this looks exactly the same

 

[WILDER]

Your tanks is severely overstocked I agree.

If the fish look like they have been sprinkled in salt, or spots the size of a grain of salt. It's whitespot.

 

[Carlovel1]

Your tanks is severely overstocked I agree.

If the fish look like they have been sprinkled in salt, or spots the size of a grain of salt. It's whitespot.

It might have been a bit more useful if you actually told the OP which fishes are not suitable for his/her tank and maybe a few alternatives/a better stock list. Something like this maybe:

Yes, you are overstocked. The Whiptail Catfish (depending on species), the Cuckoo Catfish and the Pictus Catfish need to be moved to a bigger tank (150 litre or bigger)or rehomed to a suitable place. Then, I would add 4 more Panda Corys to the tank as these should be in groups of 4+.

Carl

 

[WILDER]

Because i'm not that good of fish types.
Need to do some research before you buy the fish for tank size, adult size, compatibility.

 

[Carlovel1]

Because i'm not that good of fish types.
Need to do some research before you buy the fish for tank size, adult size, compatibility.

Oh OK
Sorry

 

[InsaneHOH]

Your tanks is severely overstocked I agree.

If the fish look like they have been sprinkled in salt, or spots the size of a grain of salt. It's whitespot.

It might have been a bit more useful if you actually told the OP which fishes are not suitable for his/her tank and maybe a few alternatives/a better stock list. Something like this maybe:

Yes, you are overstocked. The Whiptail Catfish (depending on species), the Cuckoo Catfish and the Pictus Catfish need to be moved to a bigger tank (150 litre or bigger)or rehomed to a suitable place. Then, I would add 4 more Panda Corys to the tank as these should be in groups of 4+.

Carl

Hey guys thanx for the response. if you read again, i did say

I have a Juwel Rekord 60 set up with the following guys in,
Please note i know some of these guys get big! Some of which will be shortly moving to a bigger Juwel Rio 180 once its cycled

And the sizes are all still small pretty small. you think this is overstocked?

1 chubby pleco 3"
1 bulldog pleco 3"
2 panda cory 1"
1 whiptail cat 2"
1 Cuckoo cat 1"
1 Pictus Cat 1"
1 baby swordtail 5mm
2 baby bristlenose cats 1"
& a group of assassin snails


Also i'm still not sure this is whitespot, but something else. Bulldosg head is now clear, and Baby BN don't seem to have any more after the fry ate them, He's fine btw

Thanx
Ben


P.s the i have another 2 panda's in my other tank, the bigger 260. this will all be teaming up shortly. when my 180 is ready

 

[WILDER]

The fish pecking at the plec. Fish will sometimes do that if a fish has parasites.

Do the spots also look fluffy.

 

[the biffster]

hi whats the Temp on the tank
at the moment and whats your stats