Tips For Treating Whitespot Please

[marieukxx]

My sisters tank has whitespit. The Cadinals are mainly affected and some of the guyppys. She has a bottle of treatment. Should sh treat now or wait? I read something about the cysts falling off. Should she clean daily or nything like that. Thanks

 

[soybean]

Instructions should be on the bottle? Not wanting to make it sound like I'm pointing out the obvious, but they should be clear enough on there.

Raising the temperature slightly should also help speed things along.

 

[catfish4ever]

Instructions should be on the bottle? Not wanting to make it sound like I'm pointing out the obvious, but they should be clear enough on there.

Raising the temperature slightly should also help speed things along.

+1 for the obvious. raise temperature slowly over a few days and add salt. but never add salt with scaless fish or with corydoras. half dose if your fish are sensitive to treatments.

Big water change should help...

 

[Aquamaniac]

all the above.raising the temperature+ medicine.or raising the temperature + salt.Raise temperature slowly.Do not stop treatment after spots disapear. The higher temperature will make the fungus leave the fishes skin and drop on the bottom of the fish tank.Then the medicine kills them.If you stop treatment before that they will reproduce and attach to the fishes again. Theres actually alot of information around for the ICH disease.

After treatment use the carbon in your filter to remove the medicine.And do a very good partial water change to remove any traces of it.Then decrease the temperature slowly.

 

[marieukxx]

Thanks I know it says on the bottle but there's nothing better than the experience of people on here. t=The bottle says to put the temp at 26 so we've done that.

 

[Aquamaniac]

Thanks I know it says on the bottle but there's nothing better than the experience of people on here. t=The bottle says to put the temp at 26 so we've done that.

Do it slowly.one degree at a time.If you do it in one go your fish will feel the difference.And they are already vurnerable because of the disease.

 

[Proxo]

I know After treatment carbon in your filter can remove the medicine.
A few larger water changes would be just as good, yeah or? - just incase people don't have carbon.

 

[L_Plates]

Just make sure to continue the treatment one more time atleast after you no longer see any spots. Parasites could still be in the water in what they call the 'free floating' stage and that is the only time the medicine can kill them.

By upping the temp as mentioned above this will speed up the growth of the cyst/white spot and shorten the time that the cyst/white spot will stay on the fish.

I think i medicated 3 or 4 times when my fish had this.

Good Luck Marie,

LP

 

[elisew]

One main thing that I haven`t seen anyone advise you of is to aerate the surface of the water more if you`re raising the temperature, as the higher the temp the less oxygen is in the water and your fish will begin to gasp at the surface and could die

Good luck, hope she gets it sorted