Help
I bought a tank with stock in it and although we tried to minimize stress the two Pictus Catfish picked up white spot really bad. I have a cloan loach who also has it, but most of the other fish seem ok.
I have to tiny Corydoras and an Albino Plec that seem fine, and although the white spot has now gone from the Catfish the Loach still has it at this point, but it is only 2.5 days since I dosed so that may clear. the catfish seem to have lost the shine off parts of their body, so I am not sure if the meds did that or not.
I have been reading on various forums that you need to be really careful with treatments as they dont do well with it.
My fist question is, that the dosing instructions on the meds says to repeat the does on day 4 and given the effects on the fish, if they all show clear by day 4, do I have to repeat the dose?
Secondly, if I do have to re-dose, should I perform a partial water change and put the carbon filter back in to clear all the first dose of meds out of the system before doing it again.. I just wonder if I did that as a precaution so that there is no build up of too much medication that would cause the catfish more harm.
I dont want to cause a problem by adding meds if its unnecessary but then again I dont want a re-occurrence of the whitespot if I don't re-dose.
Please help I have a day and a half before I need to do anything.
I bought a tank with stock in it and although we tried to minimize stress the two Pictus Catfish picked up white spot really bad. I have a cloan loach who also has it, but most of the other fish seem ok.
I have to tiny Corydoras and an Albino Plec that seem fine, and although the white spot has now gone from the Catfish the Loach still has it at this point, but it is only 2.5 days since I dosed so that may clear. the catfish seem to have lost the shine off parts of their body, so I am not sure if the meds did that or not.
I have been reading on various forums that you need to be really careful with treatments as they dont do well with it.
My fist question is, that the dosing instructions on the meds says to repeat the does on day 4 and given the effects on the fish, if they all show clear by day 4, do I have to repeat the dose?
Secondly, if I do have to re-dose, should I perform a partial water change and put the carbon filter back in to clear all the first dose of meds out of the system before doing it again.. I just wonder if I did that as a precaution so that there is no build up of too much medication that would cause the catfish more harm.
I dont want to cause a problem by adding meds if its unnecessary but then again I dont want a re-occurrence of the whitespot if I don't re-dose.
Please help I have a day and a half before I need to do anything.