Nightmare Since Moving My Tank - Now I Have White Spot & Fin Rot

[Jazzyc]

HI,

I have moved my Tank about 2 weeks ago and my Fahaka stopped eating when I put him back in the Tank... here is my post on it >> [URL="http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=267702"]http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=267702[/URL]

Since making that post I have lost 5 of my oldest fish to White Spot & Fin Rot and couldnt really tell on the puffer as he kept burying himself in the sand. I forced him up today as I added some new plants and an extra airstone as I have upped the Temp & added Aquarium salt.

He swam for about 2 mins then rested on the sand... thats when I noticed this...

He isnt eating - When he deos come out of the sand he headbuts the glass and shoots around so much water comes out of my hood.

Every where I read on the net it says not to add Meds when you have Catfish & Puffer fish.. but I really dont know what to do now? He has eaten I apple Snale in 2 weeks...

In the same Tank i have 5 Barbs & 2 Guarimis who sho no signs of either disease. I pulled out a dead Clown Plec to find when I put him in tissue to look under the liht he was bleeding from everywhere.

The PH in my Tank is High as the water is very Hard here (Bedford)

All other readings are normal - I kept water in my filter when I moved it didnt dry out.

Can anybody Help me? I dont know what to do.

The Light is off, The Water is Pushing 30 now, 25% water change today.. added more salt.

 

[Jazzyc]

Bump

 

[Colin_T]

I would dose the tank with a whitespot medication but only use half dose if it recommends that for tetras and catfish. You can also try Triple/ Tri Sulpha. The sulpha based medications can be used at full strength for scaleless fishes like loaches, catfish, eels and puffers.

The fish are covered in excess mucous and this is normally caused by poor water quality. Any ammonia in the water will stress puffers and if there was a dead pleco in the tank it could have created an ammonia surge and in the high PH that would kill or seriously stress all the inhabitants.

If you raise the temperature then you need to increase the surface turbulence to maximise the oxygen levels in the water.

The other way to get rid of whitespot is to put the sick fish in a new tank or bucket of water. Each day you move the fish into a new clean container with clean water. Do this every day for a week. Each day some of the whitespot parasites will fall off the fish and sit on the bucket. As you move the fish into a new bucket you will be leaving the old water and parasites behind. Eventually all the parasites will have fallen off and the fish will be clean.
The buckets of water can be tipped out on the garden and left to dry out for a day. That will kill off any parasites left in the bucket.

 

[Jazzyc]

Thanks for your reply, unfortunatly I was too late and he died today.

Im gutted

 

[welshy9]

sorry to read about the loss m8 it looks a loverly fish ,