Clown Loaches+ White Spot + No spare Hospital tank

[Al Bundy]

Thanks to everyone who helped with my loach problem. I have just seen one of them, his back end and tail fin covered in white spot.

What do I do? Could my other fish be infected?

Thanks in advance for any help offered

 

[sunflower]

Whitespot has a free swimming stage which means the water is infected with it. Chances are some (if not all) of your other fish will get it too.

There are plenty of meds available to treat whitespot. I have used King British Whitespot control before which was really good.

There's no need to isolate the fish because it's actually the water you're treating, not the fish. Remember to keep treating for a week or so after the spots have gone, just to make sure it's cleared the water too.

 

[Joviella]

I would advise treating the whole tank. As sunflower said.....ws3 white spot terminator by king british is very good........just be careful not to overdose and remove any carbon you might have in your filter.

 

[Al Bundy]

Thanks for the help B)

 

[smithrc]

esha treatments rule. we only normally need one day of treatment to kill the whitespot.

we've just tried a different treatment (cant remember the name) but the white spots have actually got worse. so we've done a waterchange and used the esha this time - hopefully our fishies will be better tomorrow (yep its normally that good)

why we have just got whitespot is beyond me... nothing new in ages - nothing done differently... oh well..

 

[Al Bundy]

I coudn't get King Brtish, so I got the one they stocked - Interpet.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Cat]

Noticed one of my clowns had white spot this morning,treated the tank straight away and turned temperature up a bit.

Hope they all don't die

(The instructions are hopeless to, on the bottle it says treat again in 4 days, on the leaflet in the box it says wait 7 days .)

 

[smithrc]

I coudn't get King Brtish, so I got the one they stocked - Interpet.

Thanks for your help.

thats a bugger - thats what we just tried and changed back to esha...

I hope it works better for you than it did for us.

 

[Cat]

I've been reading laterals post on white spot.

Once it is mature, it erupts from the cyst and attaches itself to something fixed, (rock, plant etc.), where it builds a strong skin around itself. This stage is called a "tomont". This is the principle replication phase. Inside it's protective sheath, it divides and divides and divides. Eventually, the skin ruptures and many of the new, free swimming stage tomites start swimming around trying to find a fish. There can be 1000's from a single cyst.

Note, the cyst on the fish, and the encapsulated tomont are pretty much indestructible. It is only the free swimming stage that is killed off by medications. The reason the heater is often screwed up a little when treating Ich is not to kill the parasites, but to speed up the life cycle and get them to the free swimming stage faster.

Will i need anything to treat the fish after the cyst erupts?

I've never had fish with this before so I'm a bit lost here

 

[smithrc]

the fish will heal just fine - the meds for white spot kill the floaty stage - before they re attach to a fish...

your fish will have little gray bumps for a few days after the cysts pop.

 

[Al Bundy]

(The instructions are hopeless to, on the bottle it says treat again in 4 days, on the leaflet in the box it says wait 7 days .)

Wait 4 days before you apply the second dose, then 7 days before you return any carbon media to your filter.