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| Posted | how to treat white spot in tropical freshwater aquarium |
| 07-10-2005 15:56 by Yvonne |
I have a fairly new tank (second hand) 6ft x2ftx2ft with a minireef filter. I have been given the all clear regarding nitrites, nitrates etc. but have just noticed that my silverdollars and one of my kissing gouramis have white spot. How do I treat it? If I put chemicals in wont that destroy all my good bacteria? |
| 07-10-2005 16:01 by stu |
no, it wont destroy your good bacteria, but what you should do is calculate the exact amount of water in the tank and treat with a proprietry medication. follow instructions to the letter once infection is clear do water change(50%)and examine cause of outbreak. Maybe you have stocked too quickly, or added infected fish? warning, white spot has a dormant stage in substrate of upto 4 weeks. |
| 07-10-2005 17:36 by danny boy |
id pass on the chemicals and add a teaspoon of salt per 5 gallons of water. ive found this to be a great help in healing the fish in the past without adding any chemicals. (my tanks are organic if you will) but the cause is more important that the treatment. ive seen many many cases of ich on the net and in general its one of two things bad water conditions due to people not making enough or regular water changes. or a cold tank that can lower a fishes immune system. i take it that as you are on this forum that you are an old hand at water changes and you do them at the very least fortnightly (although i always advise to change weekly, unless you are feeding a minimum to your fish) i would carry on with decent changes add the salt and raise the tanks temp a few degrees. i never see white spot except for in my quarentine tank (for new additions) and my tanks all sit at around 78-80 degrees. some are even higher for breeding purposes...
i hope this helps a little |
| 23-07-2006 14:35 by tommyjohn |
We have recently established 6ftx16"x20"(4weeks) and today we foud white spot on our pink kisser and clown loach.We have been adlusting the ph a little in the last week but nothing to drastic. If i use chemicals can i still use the same water after the treatment has finished?,and all whitespot has gone? Should I treat all the fish or just the infected ones?
Very greatful for any tips...!  |
| 24-07-2006 09:15 by Alan |
Use esha exit at the earliest chance you get the longer you leave it the worse it will get. I have looked into the use of salt to treat whitespot and the levels needed are quite high if you intend to kill the parasites, not all freshwater fish can handle the high levels needed. The addition of salt though is a very good means of reducing stress and can enable the fish to build up a resistance to the parasite but it would mean whitespot would be ticking over in the tank any new introductions will not have the same levels of resistance and may become infected with whitespot.
There is normally a trigger for whitespot that being the introduction of an infected fish, poor water quality or strss from bullying between fish or it could simply be old age in a fish weakening the immune system in this later case there would have to be an introduction of whitespot though either ticking over in the tank or introduced with a new fish that may not be infected itself. |
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