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Iāve just started keeping tropical fish and they have white spot disease and Iāve noticed some of there fins look like theyāve been half eaten is this fin fungus
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Hiya Iāve just started out and Iāve got 6 gold tetra , 4 plates ,3 Dalmatian mollies, 3little cat fish ,5 neons and 1 angle fish, one of my platys was bad it kept hiding and darting about it died 2 days ago but on one side it looked very strange Iāve got a pic ,a couple of the neons had white spot Iām using a white spot meds they donāt seem too bad, I did a full water change and scrubbed everything and Iām still using the whit spot stuff and Iāve turned the heat up to 80 , but Iām a bit scared to turn the heat up further I was told it could kill the fishWhat fish do you have?
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The best cure for White spot is heat (as recommended to me by these forums)
I used NT Labs White Spot & Fungus & it didnt seem to do much. So i sat it out until treatment ended
So i water changed & started treatment again just to be sure i was doing it correctly.
A week after treatment finished the Corys were still flicking so i did a 25% Water change & added a little salt (1 Tablespoon per 10 Gallons) & turned the heat up to 30oC/86f for 2 weeks, This seems to have now cured them. Not seen any White spots or flicking for around 10 days
The platy has diedCan we see pictures ? Just to confirm it is Ich yiur dealing with
The yellow and black platy in the pictures has a bacterial infection on its side.Hiya Iāve just started out and Iāve got 6 gold tetra , 4 plates ,3 Dalmatian mollies, 3little cat fish ,5 neons and 1 angle fish, one of my platys was bad it kept hiding and darting about it died 2 days ago but on one side it looked very strange Iāve got a pic ,a couple of the neons had white spot Iām using a white spot meds they donāt seem too bad, I did a full water change and scrubbed everything and Iām still using the whit spot stuff and Iāve turned the heat up to 80 , but Iām a bit scared to turn the heat up further I was told it could kill the fish
The platy has since died , my temp is between80/81 is this ok and Iām using white spot control aswell I did a full water change aswell and scrubbed everything Iām hoping this worksThe yellow and black platy in the pictures has a bacterial infection on its side.
The neon tetra definitely has white spot.
You don't want to raise the temperature too much when using medication because the medication reduces the oxygen level in the water and so does the heat. A combination of high temperature and chemicals can reduce oxygen levels a lot and harm the fish. Salt also reduces the oxygen level in the water.