Ich? Or...

[ihassomefishes]

hey guys...
i woke up this morning to find one of my male platys dead. i hadn't noticed before, but he had white fluffy stuff on his bottom fins.

i checked out the rest of my fish, and i'm noticing white spots on a few of them. one of my corys has what looks like grains of salt on his fins (he's a bronze cory-he's lost all of his color and is totally white), and a few of the platys have larger spots. all of my platys are now at the top of the tank by the surface.

is this ich? what do i do?

i have a carbon filter...so, if i treat the tank, what do i do? should i just dump out the carbon and leave the floss?

stats:
(my stats have been bizarre for a while now..i've been doing near daily water changes to try to fix it)
ammonia: API liquid reads at 4ppm (cannot reduce it through water changes) but my ammoalert is reading zero
nitrite: zero (spiked to .25 when ammonia spiked, has now returned to zero)
nitrate: 5ppm
temp: 76-77
pH: 6.8

please ignore the ammonia reading, i'm nearly certain it's a false positive (and if it's not, i'm already taking steps to remedy it)

thank you so much..

 

[tess_774]

Hi, I posted on here a few days ago, my fish have the same symptoms as yours, white spots and it looks a bit furry round the fins.

So far the advice people have been able to give me on here is to turn the temperature up to 30 degrees (slowly) and to treat the water with some kind of medication


I'm using interpret anti white spot, they say it wont remove the spots off the fish but turning the temperature up will and the water treatment then kills the spots once they have dropped off the fish.

I've now lost 3 fish to this horrible disease, turning up the temperature has removed some of the white spot off of the fish but not all of it yet


Hope this helps

 

[CrystalClear16]

To treat whitespot you need to remove the carbon from the filter, turn the temp up to 30C and treat with a whitespot med that is suitable for your fish. Make sure you medicate for the full course - it will usually take about a week to compete a full treatment.

Also, as you are turning the temp up you need to make sure the tank is airated. Have you got an air stone?

Don't be fooled into getting a med that claims to rid whitespot in 24hrs - they don't work.

I have had it before and doing the above meant I didn't loose any fish.

 

[ihassomefishes]

thanks...i do have an airstone..i dumped my carbon and i'm treating with API super ick liquid...i turned the temp up from 77 to 80.

the meds say to treat again in 48 hours..and then wait another 48 hours, do a 25% water change, and filter w/ new carbon.

any insight as to how quickly i should see improvement?

 

[tess_774]

pretty much what i said...

Mine took over a week to show any improvement

 

[LilyRose Tank]

keep dosing every 2 days for 10 days total, also a little bit of aquarium salt aids healing, not too much though, about half the recommended as corys dont like it too much, The temp should be 86 as ich has been known to survive up to 85, i pretty much lost all my tank, so good luck, try water change every 48hours and redose. good luck...airstone must be a large one, warm water holds less O2/