Kevstir
Fishaholic
Hi guys
My brother in law has just been on the phone to see if i would look up on the net whats the best course of action to tackle white spot in his tank , as i'm still a newbie i thought i would run it this by you.
right
he had white spot in his old tank but had just got rid of it for about a week then he bought a new tank and transferred the fish over (with old filter), now my thinking is that by transferring the fish it has stressed them out a bit and lowered there immune system so they have got it again
he has 2 clown loaches that are very badly infected , other fish that are infected is a couple of neon's an albino Corry and 1 gorumi (not sure on the spellings sorry).
He has treated it with interpet #6 white spot+ and its not getting any better (was added on wed night) on reading the sticky on the forum i noticed that people said even though interpet say add to 500ml of warm water this should actually be hot water to activate the ingredients , he just added it to warm water so its obviously not activated the treatment , to start over again would he add his carbon filter tonight do a 50% water change and gravel clean tomorrow morning put the water back in and start from scratch??? i know that clown loatches can be very sensitive to meds so want to make sure he doesn't make them any worse , do you think such a big water change tomorrow would stress them even more??
unfortunately he hasn't got his old tank anymore so there's no way of quarantining them.
Kev
My brother in law has just been on the phone to see if i would look up on the net whats the best course of action to tackle white spot in his tank , as i'm still a newbie i thought i would run it this by you.
right
he had white spot in his old tank but had just got rid of it for about a week then he bought a new tank and transferred the fish over (with old filter), now my thinking is that by transferring the fish it has stressed them out a bit and lowered there immune system so they have got it again
he has 2 clown loaches that are very badly infected , other fish that are infected is a couple of neon's an albino Corry and 1 gorumi (not sure on the spellings sorry).
He has treated it with interpet #6 white spot+ and its not getting any better (was added on wed night) on reading the sticky on the forum i noticed that people said even though interpet say add to 500ml of warm water this should actually be hot water to activate the ingredients , he just added it to warm water so its obviously not activated the treatment , to start over again would he add his carbon filter tonight do a 50% water change and gravel clean tomorrow morning put the water back in and start from scratch??? i know that clown loatches can be very sensitive to meds so want to make sure he doesn't make them any worse , do you think such a big water change tomorrow would stress them even more??
unfortunately he hasn't got his old tank anymore so there's no way of quarantining them.
Kev
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