White Spot

[luke2702]

hi all, have done a search on here but cant find a proper answer, purchased a couple of fish last weekend from a large nationwide pet shop. Just found that a couple of fish have now got white spot. Had some chemical in from a few years ago so started to dose the tank, what temp should i increase the water to? I have american chiclids and the water temp is about 24C. Please help. Thanks

 

[Destination Doha]

hi luke i had this same problem about a month ago in a big tank i uped the temp to 28 over 3 days .dont know if this was the best temp but it worked for me good luck whith the white spot fella

 

[luke2702]

hi luke i had this same problem about a month ago in a big tank i uped the temp to 28 over 3 days .dont know if this was the best temp but it worked for me good luck whith the white spot fella

Thanks for the reply yeah just up'd temp to 28c fingers crossed it works not had it for about 5 years

 

[anon02]

In my opinion ich is at it`s most sinister when you have a light infection because it can be missed or overlooked, there may only be a couple of spots or the parasite can be lodged in the gills unnoticed. Each mature cyst can produce up to 2000 new parasites and each parasite can produce a new cyst in a matter of days. Raised temperature may work but if it doesn`t you could be left with a temperature resistant strain that will require medication to eradicate anyways, so I would go for the best remedy first as last

That`s just my opinion of course

 

[karin]

Here are two good articles that will tell you everything you need to know about ich.

http/fins.actwin.com/articles/disease/ick2.php
http/www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml

Note "some chemical" is a pretty risky way to be responsible for your fish. Also, expiration dates on liquid medications are pretty important, so check this out as well.