Whitespot!

[jumblepod]

My clown loaches in my tank have had whitespot for about 2 weeks now. I have treated it with two types of medication now and turned up the heater to 28c to try and shift it but its being persistant. None of the other fish in the tank have it just the clown loaches. The medication i have tried are interpet anti white spot and waterlife protozin. One thing i havnt done is take the carbon out my fluval 405 filter while treating. Thing is if i take it out its going to damage all the bacteria on the carbon. My water quality has already dropped I read the nitrites about 0.3 this morning.

 

[Jamepsss]

My clown loaches in my tank have had whitespot for about 2 weeks now. I have treated it with two types of medication now and turned up the heater to 28c to try and shift it but its being persistant. None of the other fish in the tank have it just the clown loaches. The medication i have tried are interpet anti white spot and waterlife protozin. One thing i havnt done is take the carbon out my fluval 405 filter while treating. Thing is if i take it out its going to damage all the bacteria on the carbon. My water quality has already dropped I read the nitrites about 0.3 this morning.

If the carbon is still active it will be removing the meds from your water. I'd remove it, there'll be enough bacteria on your other media. I'd do a large water change, slowly increase the temp to 30c and start the treatment again with either of those products but not both.

 

[SensesFail]

My clown loaches in my tank have had whitespot for about 2 weeks now. I have treated it with two types of medication now and turned up the heater to 28c to try and shift it but its being persistant. None of the other fish in the tank have it just the clown loaches. The medication i have tried are interpet anti white spot and waterlife protozin. One thing i havnt done is take the carbon out my fluval 405 filter while treating. Thing is if i take it out its going to damage all the bacteria on the carbon. My water quality has already dropped I read the nitrites about 0.3 this morning.

If the carbon is still active it will be removing the meds from your water. I'd remove it, there'll be enough bacteria on your other media. I'd do a large water change, slowly increase the temp to 30c and start the treatment again with either of those products but not both.

+1 i heard that the carbon will counteract the meds, remove it for the meds to function and do their thing. that reminds me when i get some spare cash i need to start a med cupboard!

 

[divetime84]

+1 with the above but if you can get as much movement on the top for aeration as i thing 30c water the o2 saturation is about 3ppm wich is very low