White Spot

[Claude]

'lo, i am having my first white spot breakout in my 170lt tank, and i'm attributing it to 10 neon tetras i put in my tank on friday.

i've not really had to deal with disease too much (apart from finrot) so i'm a novice @ this, i have set up a hospital tank with the aim of sticking affected fish in, which at the moment are;-

10 x neon tetra
4 x clown loaches
(possibly 1 oto)

My arsenal at the moment only includes pima and melafix, no point in using these is there?

Can someone reccommend me an industry standard w/s treatment, i've looked at the meds thread and there are a lot to choose from.

Also is there any point in setting up a hospital tank, as the whole tank will need to be treated? i've set it up as i know the different fish have different medication tolerances, and the shrimps are not to keen either.

Current stock is here tank #1, plus newly added neon tetra.

I wish i'd taken more notice of the "Help, whitespot!" threads

 

[Claude]

AND HELLO BY THE WAY

 

[Sunny.C]

I am in the same boat as you, as my 2 loach suffer from whitespot. I will be heading down to my LFS to get a treatment that i can put straight into my tank with the info below.(Hopefully the other fish won't be stressed from it.)

 

[Teelie]

Try Maracide or Coppersafe. Only thing is it might kill inverts like snails. Shrimp and other exo-skeleteal inverts might be okay though.

 

[IMCL85]

Usually on the begining you should just treat it with aquarium salt and raise temperature I find that this is the best way to treat ich. Ofcourse some fish cant take salt so just raise the temperature to about 86 for a few days and see if the white spot would disappear if not then start using medicine. I dislike to use medicine much lately unless its a must.

 

[tttnjfttt]

Usually on the begining you should just treat it with aquarium salt and raise temperature I find that this is the best way to treat ich. Ofcourse some fish cant take salt so just raise the temperature to about 86 for a few days and see if the white spot would disappear if not then start using medicine. I dislike to use medicine much lately unless its a must.

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DO NOT add any salt to your tank. Loaches are one of the fish that can't tollerate the salt, so you will be making things worse for them. Go ahead and increase the temperature, as that will help speed up the parasite's life cycle so they will be affected by the medicine quicker. Raise the temperature slowly, a max of 2 degreese per day (not sure if that is F or C).

Don't bother with the quarentine tank, ich is one of those illnesses that if one fish has it, every fish has it.

I can't remember if you have posted your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate readings. If not, can you please do so? Fish illnesses usually come about as the result of stress; bad water conditions are often he cause of stress.

 

[Claude]

Usually on the begining you should just treat it with aquarium salt and raise temperature I find that this is the best way to treat ich. Ofcourse some fish cant take salt so just raise the temperature to about 86 for a few days and see if the white spot would disappear if not then start using medicine. I dislike to use medicine much lately unless its a must.

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DO NOT add any salt to your tank. Loaches are one of the fish that can't tollerate the salt, so you will be making things worse for them. Go ahead and increase the temperature, as that will help speed up the parasite's life cycle so they will be affected by the medicine quicker. Raise the temperature slowly, a max of 2 degreese per day (not sure if that is F or C).

Don't bother with the quarentine tank, ich is one of those illnesses that if one fish has it, every fish has it.

I can't remember if you have posted your ammonia, nitrite and nitrate readings. If not, can you please do so? Fish illnesses usually come about as the result of stress; bad water conditions are often he cause of stress.

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H, sorry i forgot to post my stats

Ammonia = 0
NitrIte = 0
NitrAte = 1
Ph = 7.5

Temp is usually 26oC but i have just cranked it up to 30oC, i've lost one oto this morning