White Spots On Discus

[KathyM]

I won't sit here and said we all told you so. I hope you medicate the others and they recover. Then maybe you can think more in future whether cramming tonnes of fish into a small tank against everyone's advice is really very responsible.

 

[Gankutsuou]

kathy - that was a one and a half week situation while the 38 gallon cycled. this all happened in the 38 gallon about after it was set up. No signs of itch or anything else came to be until the filter had stopped. you have no visable idea on size, shape, and so on or how the set up looked and was created. they were perfectly fine in the ten for a week and a half, and should have been all right in the 38, but then the filter stopped while I was out of town and the outbreak started.

I will also medicate for itch. probably today, but possibly tomorrow. I also Intend to get a new filter today that give 5.27 X total gallon per hour filtration instead of the 3.8 one I currently have, and also hope it won't keep stopping like this one, and use the mature 10 media, the hopefully maturing 38 media, and then the 50's media. It's a "Stacking" modle filter, where you can add layers of filtration, medicines, ammonia suppresants and so on in it. I'd think they'd have whitespot medication where I'm going, but if not... I'll pick up the meds tomorrow.

edit:

oh, and I don't plan to do aquarium salt. That could be harmful to the eels, and definatly to the catfish.

 

[kev_kb]

For your future reference it's obviously better if you can medicate as soon as you have identified what is going on, and not waiting for 4-5 days... I think your a young kid, so it may be difficult to get to an LFS, but still, 5 days is a long time in these situations.

Did you have the Betta before this happened? I don't remember it being in your sig before? If you have introduced a new fish into the 10 gallon that housed some of your sick fish then that was a really silly thing to do. If it's the same tank I hope you bleached it out or something first. If it's the same tank keep a very close eye on that Betta.

 

[Gankutsuou]

I've had the betta for a long time in the 10 gallon, and yes, I did take care of it pre-introduction.

I have got the meds, but i need help deciphering.


It says 1 drop per gallon for anything accept tetra, and 1 drop per 2 gallon for tetra.... and I have 2 tetra in there... so this may be a problem...

also, My LFS people told me to take out the cardbon tocks before doing this, as it would stop the meds fast, and then to turn it up to 85 to speed up the process. how long will it take and how long should my media be out?

 

[kev_kb]

Well, you have no option but to follow the instructions...

I've no idea how long it will take, it should say on the treatment how long to treat for.

You should remove the carbon media, you don't need to worry about how long it's out for, as it's not really required. Just make sure you have some normal media in the filter, you don't want to run it without any media!

 

[Gankutsuou]

Ah, in my whisper filter, the ONLY media included carbon.

But this new filter has 2 more in adition, the foam and then the biomax, both which impress me.
I raised the temp to 85 degrees, took out the carbon from my new filter, and started it. I put the 10g media back in the 10, allowing it to stay matured untill tomorrow/the next day when I'll put it in with this new filter until it matures.

The meds in, and apparently working
It even turned the water a nice blue color, as it said it would.

 

[jayjay]

Hopes it's not a copper based med, or your eels are in for a bad time again.

 

[kev_kb]

I hope I have this wrong, but it sounds like you only have the brand new filter media in the larger tank now? If so you will cause the tank to cycle all over again!!!

 

[Gankutsuou]

what I'm gonna do right now is seperate the carbon from my old media so the med still works, and put it in


edit: and I stayed from copper. It's made of Formalin and Malachite green.