white dots

[Mogurako]

Some of my fish have lil white dots on their fins. what is going on here?

Jesse

 

[WILDER]

Does it look like the fish has been sprinkled with salt, if so you have whitespot and you will need to treat immediately with an anti white spot treatment, remove carbon from the tank, turn temp up to 30 and add some salt.

 

[kev_kb]

Please check if your fish can handle salt before adding it!

 

[Discomafia]

yea, you have any corys or plecs?

 

[Mogurako]

I already have salt in the tank seeing how it is a livebear tank. I do have cories in the tank and they are just fine.

Jesse

 

[kev_kb]

Cories cannot tolerate salt, please stop using it!

 

[jkun17]

It could be ich.

 

[WILDER]

They can tolerate salt in small doses, so I've read.

 

[Mogurako]

Cories cannot tolerate salt, please stop using it!

I have talked to one of my friends who has been rasing and selling fish for a very long time and he said that a small amount of salt in the tank will help everyone out. This tank has been running this way for about a yr with no problems.

Jesse

 

[Never2Bknown]

Yep, I have catfish, cories, and kuhli loaches and none of them are affected by salt if used in the right amounts.

And yeah, it's most likely ich. How warm is your tank? A tank that is too cold is one of the biggest causes of ich in tropical fish because it stresses them out which makes them more vulnerable to disease. Also, increasing the temperature in your aquarium during treatment helps the ich cycle faster. When it is in the form of white spot, it cannot be killed without killing the fish because it is beneath the epidermal layer of the fish's skin. After that, it migrates to the gravel where it is then vulnerable. But be careful! If your fish remain in that tank, don't just quit treatment after the white spots are gone because if the ich in the gravel isn't dead yet, you will probably get a recurring infection.