Tiny white spots on a platy

[wertyu5555]

I just noticed some tiny white spots almost like minute bubbles on one o my platies. is it sick? if yes, is there any well-known product for treatmen that yoy can recommend?

 

[confusedmanc]

hi,

sounds like it could well be white spot, are you uk or usa? there are a variety of remedies available, depends on where you are


HTH

 

[wertyu5555]

i live in greece. By the way, do i have to isolate the sick fish and then treat it? how do i know that the others arent infected as well?

 

[Bol]

To answer the last question, first you need to determine what the disease is.

Do the white spots have 'height'?
Do they sort of look like very small grains of salt stuck to the fish?
Or, do they perhaps look like little fuzzy patches?

 

[wertyu5555]

The look like grains of salt

 

[kaz petts]

If it is white spot then it is likely that your other fish are also infected so it would be a wise idea to isolate the sick fish and treat it but also treat your community tank as well.
White spot lives in the water and swims around trying to find a host to live on. The treatment that you use for the fish also treats the water and kills off any nasties in the water.
Is the fish Flicking/Rubbing as if irritated and are any of your other fish doing this?
Kaz

 

[kell]

hey

my female sword tail had wite spot and i treated it with a product from the fish store very easy to treet. I didnt isolate the female i just treated the hole tank and she is now fine no spots and very happy and none of the other fish have it eather.

hope it is all good.

 

[Rudy2860]

Ich sounds like the problem here.
I would suggest QTing the fish and raising the temp in the QT with all the infected fish(s) as it speeds up the life cycle, i think theres a pinned topic here or in the emergency section of the boards that explains all about Ich.

There are afew ways to treat it, salt will kill the parasite as well as over the counter fish meds.

Just be careful with your doses as some scaleless fish as loaches idealy are given half doses of the recommended due to their skin type.

Plecs and corys shoudl NOT be given the salt treatment becuase they are very sensitive to it. again i think there are some pinned topics in here or the emergency section that clear both these topics up.

I hope this helps and you rid your tank of the problem!

 

[wrs]

it could be a scale. my platty had a white spot on it, but it fell off, and shes still alive and well weeks after

 

[Rudy2860]

The spots will all off, they are cysts of the parasites , one cysts is a ton of parasites. That is their life cycle, once the cyst has fallen off it sits in the gravel and then the parasites immerge to find a fish to infect and create more cysts