White Spot

[adambrum]

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I think i may have introduced white spot into one of my fry tanks.

On friday i added 3 small b/n plecs to grow into adults for my main tank and tonight i noticed white spot on 2 of them, I have only ever had this when i first started with coldwater fish funnily enough from the same shop.

How do i go about treating a fry tank is it the same as a tank of adults or should i put a smaller dose in ?

These are f1 fry so i really dont want to lose any.

thanks

 

[PoPoV]

I had this once in a community tank. It started on an Irradesant shark, then spread through my tank like wild fire! I know its been a min since you posted this, but did you ever treat or get rid of the disease? If so how did you go about it.

 

[Ferris]

I would lower the dosage slightly for fry but get the temp up to 83/84 F - IMO that's the best thing for whitespot. Mbuna fry should be able to cope with that temp OK.

 

[adambrum]

Thanks ferris, i had checked on the net but could not find anything about whitespot and fry.

What i did was put all the fry in another tank with some water from my main tank and emptied the tank and cleaned and dried every thing, boiled the media (I keep a stash of media in my other filters) and refilled with water from my main tank and half new water treated at half dose upped the temp and put the fry back in.


I had white spot about a year ago on a coldwater tank i had it can be a swine to get rid of hence why i went a bit overboard this time.

 

[Ferris]

High temp and meds and it should be gone inside of a week IME. Without the high temp it can take forever.

 

[adambrum]

Yeah i think with the meds and the temp increase the life cycle of the whitespot should be down to about 4 days and any in the water have been removed so its just the spots on the fish which have gone now.

i have given myself a clout round the ear for not using a quarantine tank, Im just glad it was not velvet.

So lesson learnt use a quarantine tank and different nets for different tanks and wash your hands !

 

[jayjay]

Ich Best site I know of on ich.

Personally to get rid of whitespot I raise temperature as high as fish can cope, then add a med (esha exit would seem to be the be best), take out decor except for a log or do (clean all well put in empty tank if plants if possible), then do daily gravel vacuums (works even better if you have no substrate, I'd consider removing if I had a substrate in my tank), then I add salt again to the level the fish can cope with, then if I had one I'd like a UV filter.