Fish With White Spot

[Ajp]

heyy,
all of my fish have white spot. They didn't have it two days ago but now it is obvious that white spot is present. i recently put in three plants and i was wondering if the plants might of brought white spot into the tank.

thanks in advanced.

 

[Crossfire]

heyy,
all of my fish have white spot. They didn't have it two days ago but now it is obvious that white spot is present. i recently put in three plants and i was wondering if the plants might of brought white spot into the tank.

thanks in advanced.

if there are no invertabrates in the tank, use Quick Cure or Coppersafe by Mardel, or Rid-Ich by Kordon, or Cupramine by Seachem. Plants can sometimes bring in disease, so its not exactly unheard of. Slowly raise your temperature to above 80 degrees, like 83ish is good. This will speed up the lifecycle of ich and cure it faster

 

[Ajp]

thanks for that, but what do you mean by invertabrates, which fish are invertabrates. I will try those treatments and see if it works.

 

[Malawi MaD]

Invertebrates- shrimp/snails etc..

 

[Ajp]

ohh thank you, i dont have any thing like that i have tetras and a catfish

 

[Malawi MaD]

ohh thank you, i dont have any thing like that i have tetras and a catfish

Your welcome, that's good. Means you can now treat your aquarium with one of the treatments Crossfire mentioned.

 

[pkppv]

Just a little biology lesson-

Invertabrates are animals that do not have a spine.

Fish all have spines, but snails, shrimp, and many other things do not

 

[willowstwin]

sorry to hi-jack the thread, but I just came home from work. My fish were fine this morning, nothing new has been added to the tank for weeks, but one of my tetras has a white spot on its side. It's swimming fine, my water parameters are normal... but I have shrimp AND snails, and no hospital tank (its christmas and I have a large family and a low income so please dont say to go buy a hospital tank)... any suggestions?

 

[Fishy friend2]

heat it up to 80 to 84

 

[the_lock_man]

sorry to hi-jack the thread, but I just came home from work. My fish were fine this morning, nothing new has been added to the tank for weeks, but one of my tetras has a white spot on its side. It's swimming fine, my water parameters are normal... but I have shrimp AND snails, and no hospital tank (its christmas and I have a large family and a low income so please dont say to go buy a hospital tank)... any suggestions?

You don't want to isolate whitespot cases, you need to treat the whole tank, so I'm certainly not going to suggest getting a quarantine tank anyway! THe one time I've had whitespot (or at least, when my fish had it), I treated at full dosage and my assassin snail and shrimp survived.

But, this white spot on the side of the fish - does it look like a little grain of salt sat on the surface?

 

[Rummynose]

You could also try the heat and salt method. You raise the temp in your tank and add salted, dechlorinated water to your tank. But snails don't do well with salt so you would have to keep them in a container for the time being. If I remember right, it is the free swimmers that are killed by the salt.

The heat method alone is probably the easiest way to go just do thorough gravel vacs to get the parasite in the cyst stage out of the tank. No cysts, no free swimmers! No free swimmers, no parasites on your fish!

 

[willowstwin]

ok, thanks I got some treatment and the lfs said to gravel vac, turn off the lights, turn up the temp, and dose half with the meds due to the copper in it being nasty for the shrimp.

it does indeed look like a grain of sugar/salt on the side of the tetra.

So I should turn my temp up the 28 degrees C?

 

[the_lock_man]

ok, thanks I got some treatment and the lfs said to gravel vac, turn off the lights, turn up the temp, and dose half with the meds due to the copper in it being nasty for the shrimp.

it does indeed look like a grain of sugar/salt on the side of the tetra.

So I should turn my temp up the 28 degrees C?

I would say so, yes.