Whitespot

[Caddicam]

Hi

We bought our daughter a fish tank from Christmas, it was the Undersea Aquarium by National Geographic, I posted on here about it earlier and was advised this tank wasn't suitable for goldfish. Anyway I took everyones advise, bought a bigger tank from Argos set it up left it for 5 days then transfered the Goldfish to the new tank. Now they have quite severe white spot one appears to have lost it's top fin and most if it's tail and the other has a chunk missing from it's tail. They both still seem active enough and are still feeding ok!
I feel so bad I've checked them everyday usually twice a day (in morning when Paige feeds them and again when she is going to bed, the tank is in her room) except for the last two days and then tonight when she went to bed she said it looked like they had dandruff, when I looked they were both covered and the above damage already done. What causes this, where did it come from and why didn't I see it, how's it appeared so quickly. I feel awfull, I think it's too late to treat them, I'm not sure what to do for the best.
Any advice would be great but please don't be harsh you'll make me cry, I'm hopeless when it comes to none human's suffering, I cried for an hour the other day after I cut my Parotts claw too short and made his toe bleed.


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[black angel]

Alrighty then.

Ich is hiding in gravel in most systems and all it takes is for a stressed fish to get things rolling.
The best way to get rid of it is by heat and salt.
How many gallons is the tank? Its ok I wont shout.
Is it made from plastic? I suggest getting a really small heater and placing it carefully using the suction cups well under the water line. Next, get some aquarium salt and add 1 level teaspoon per gallon. This will give you .1%. 12 hours later add another level teaspoon per gallon to give you .2%. 12 hours after that add another level teaspoon per gallon to take you to .3%.
Now, slowly turn up the heat in tiny increments until you get to 82f, this will help quicken the lifecycle and the ich will die from the salt. Some people just use heat to kill the ich so its up to you if you want to use the salt as well.
This will need to be left at this solution for at least a week maybe longer. You want to have 3 days with no sign of the ich.
As the tank is small you will be needing to do water changes. When you remove water remember how much you take out so you can add the salt back in but remember not to add salt if filling up through evaporation. You will also need to add more oxygen to the tank so a small airpump, some tubing and an airstone will be needed. Also remember to turn off the heater 15 minutes before you do any water changes.
If they get through all that then I really think you should get a larger tank. If they are common type fish then you will need 20 gallons for the first and 10 for each after that.
Of course not everyone can afford big tanks but second hand ones are always available and ebay is a great source to get one.
Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[Caddicam]

The Goldfish died yesterday, my Hubby went out and bought a big tank 29UK galons? I set it up last night and will leave it to run in till next Saturday before getting some Guppies then might add a few fish a week untill we have a nice community.