Whitespot

[scoloujo]

I have been out today and come home to find most of my fish covered in whitespot!!!! I am rushing out first thing tomorrow to buy treatment but I have a few questions.....
Can I treat the tank even with uninfected fish? (only spare tank being used as a hospital)
All my guppies and danios seem fine only platies and swordtails are affected unfortunately they are all pregnant will treating them affest this?
Sorry if I'm repeating previous post but search function not working.
Thank you for any help offered.

 

[gladdish]

Hello,


I've worked in fish for over two years and have experienced regular white spot (being the most common disease) and have never had any problems with uninfected or pregnant fish being affected by the treatment.

Over a week ago I had an outburst of whitespot in my tank and treated it with pregnant and uninfected fish in it all fish are fine including young neon fry.

Hope this has helped.
Luke.

 

[scoloujo]

Thank you. You've helped to put my mind at rest! I'll start treatment tomorrow and see how I go.

 

[gladdish]

No problem, hope all goes well.

Luke.

 

[Colin_T]

If you get whitespot in a tank you have to treat the entire tank. If you move some of the fish into a quarantine tank for treatment, the whitespot parasites will remain in the display tank with the healthy fish. It won't show up on the healthy fish but will hang around until a new fish is introduced, or the current stock get stressed out. Then it will show up again.
As a general rule, if you treat the whitespot properly, and continue treating the tank for at least a week after the spots have gone, the tank should be free of it and never have another problem unless you reintroduce the disease with new fish or contaminated water or plants.

 

[scoloujo]

Thank you both for the help I have been out today and got the waterlifes whitespot treatment. Temperature is up to 28. Thank you once again.

 

[flash22]

If the protozin dont shift it after 2-3 doses try king britsh WS3

Been battling with a tough strain of white spot for 3 weeks Myself after 3 doses of protozin it still hadnt gone so i got the WS3 (attacks the ich/white spot another way) whats seem to of cleared it just got to wait a week or so just to make sure

 

[malakye]

I found the exact same thing Flash22.

 

[Colin_T]

If you have a tough strain of whitespot that isn't responding to normal medication, try using copper to treat it. Just make sure you don't have any shrimp in the tank because copper will kill them too.
Make sure you remove carbon from the filter before treating the tank otherwise it will absorb the medication and stop it working.

 

[Ace Of Spades]

I have been out today and come home to find most of my fish covered in whitespot!!!! I am rushing out first thing tomorrow to buy treatment but I have a few questions.....
Can I treat the tank even with uninfected fish? (only spare tank being used as a hospital)
All my guppies and danios seem fine only platies and swordtails are affected unfortunately they are all pregnant will treating them affest this?
Sorry if I'm repeating previous post but search function not working.
Thank you for any help offered.

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