neon tetra disease/white spot?

[sarahw20000]

Hi i'm new on here, i've had my tank up and running for about 4 months and had the water tested regularly which is always fine. I bought an angel fish 6 wks ago which developed white spot within a week and died shortly after taking a neon tetra with it. I managed to sucessfully treat the other fish though and they are fine. 3 weeks after that ( so 3 weeks ago)i bought 4 neon tetras and a couple of days after that one of them had what looked like white spot. It's red bit went very pale and has been like that since, it's very skinny now and it's always gulping in the water. I've been using the king british white spot treatment which i used before and it hasn't helped at all. A few of the other tetras have had some white spots but they come and go and none of them look as ill as the other one. I'm now wondering if they've actually got the neon tetra disease as none of my other fish (gourami's and guppies) have had the white spots and if that is what they have do i have to kill all the tetras and could it affect the other fish? I'm getting desperate now because i've been treating them for 3 weeks and nothings happening! All comments and advice wanted! Thanks
Sarah

 

[BOD]

whats the temp in your tank, do a water change and start the medication again, if you see white spots then they definatly have whitespot...what medication are you use, ie what brand?

also turn up the temp to about 82F, treat the tank for the time reccomended on the bottle and then add an extra dose after the course of the treatment to make sure its good and gone...

 

[sarahw20000]

The temperature of the tank is normally 25 but i've put it up to 28 whilst using the treatment.
The stuff i've been using is King British W8 or something like that, apparently it's the strongest and most effective white spot treatment the shop does. On the bottle it just says to keep treating until 48 hours after the last spots have gone but last time it was gone within a week!
I've done water changes and it hasn't made any difference so i don't really see the point in carrying on treating them, it's been 3 weeks and i've seen no improvement. Is it possible that they could have neon disease aswell as white spot which is preventing the treatment from working?

 

[BOD]

that wouldnt stop the treatment working, i suggest you buy a different brand...that one doesnt have a clear end it seems to me..where are you from..if in england use interpet anti whitespot thats really good you can get it from most pet stores, you add a dose then one four days later without doing anything to the water in between..then if you really want to make sure its gone add another dose on the 7th day leave for a couple of days then do a water change..i would really suggest this if you can get hold of it!

 

[BOD]

Also neon tetra disease is these symptoms...

Restlessness

Fish begins to lose coloration

As cysts develop, body may become lumpy

Fish has difficulty swimming

In advanced cases spine may become curved

Secondary infections such as fin rot and bloating

 

[FalconStorm]

Let me ask you this. Is that tank filtered? I presume so. If so, do you have carbon in that filter? Carbon will suck the medication out of your water and so it won't do any good. I killed a fish because I forgot to remove the carbon in my hospital tank. If you had a minor outbreak previously, it might have cleared up with what little medication got through. Just something I thought might be a possiblity. I think if it was NTD, your fish would already be dead after three weeks.

 

[WILDER]

Need to no tank size how many fish and which type, test results in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph, the whitespots does it look like the fish has been sprinkled in salt, neons tetra can go pale if they are stressed so it isn't always ntd.

 

[BOD]

look in the profile - overstocked...

 

[hello kitty]

i doubt its ntd but your 50l tank is well overstocked i would suggest doing something about that asap.

 

[FairyPrincess]

hey i had i real big disaster with my tank. i got a coldwater tank for my kitchen and set it up, left it for a week so it would start to build backteria. i finaly started to buy fish, i had 4 fish i a fairly big tank. my two fish i got from a new garden centre that had just got new stock in had fish lice, but didnt warn me about them. i took them home not realising and all my 4fish died within a week. i was angry with myself and had to start all over again which ment more money! after getting more new plants, rocks for my tank i started with only two fish, guess wot they had it too! but i was so lucky and caught it in time and removed the lice myself without harming the fish. week later there looking so happy and im happy i did what i had to do.

lets hope it doesnt happen with the new tropical tank im planning on getting for my birthday!!
lol

Amy x

 

[FalconStorm]

Fish lice?

Is that white spot?

 

[WILDER]

Fish Lice
Visible parasite attached to fish, approximately 3/16" long and semi-transparent Use Cupramine, Fluke Tabs, Aquarisol, or Maracide