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| Posted | Resistant strains of Whitespot |
| 22-03-2006 23:07 by yanton |
I seem to have a resistant strain of whitespot in my malawis tank. I treat it with protozin, but it just wont go away.
the fish are healthy besides that, and it is not a major problem, just some flicking and scrathing. wondered if any of you have come across any more stubborn strains of whitespot. secondly, as said, i use protozin. what do you all use for whitespot? |
| 22-03-2006 23:16 by James_L |
I use a product called Rid-Ich. Works well for me if i ever have a problem. Don't forget to raise the temperature in the tank to speed up the parasites cycle.
James. |
| 22-03-2006 23:34 by clownloachlady |
ive got something similar to this. Last week my loaches died due to a lack of airation. One loach was on the brink of following the light, but he pulled through.
SO ever since my one loach has a white stripe on his side and his eyes are sunken in. Ive been using PIMAFIX. Ive been using this for over a week and still no luck for getting rid of these marks on him. He is the only one infected. PLEASE ANY IDEAS? Furthermore ive got five more loaches coming tomorrow, think it might be wise to keep the new loaches seperate till the other one is better? |
| 22-03-2006 23:44 by Lexter |
always quarentine new fish lady, thats my advise, for a minimum of one week, pref two |
| 22-03-2006 23:45 by clownloachlady |
i do in most cases but ive got no spare tanks left! |
| 22-03-2006 23:46 by clownloachlady |
thing is i know the history of these fish! i know they are well kept... |
| 22-03-2006 23:53 by dean |
hi i use some thing called ws3 best stuff out that will get rid of it im sure |
| 22-03-2006 23:55 by mannings |
as dean says go with ws3 it is very good and should definatly work and get rid of the white spot it is mad by king british and called ws3 a very good product |
| 23-03-2006 08:13 by Alan |
Forget the protozin it just isn't strong enough I have given up on water life treatments.
I have now started using Sera remedies for a start they state exactly what the composition is so if you have a good book you can work out a safe max dose to really nail white spot and other parasites. WS3 is good as well have had good results with whitespot with this remedy. |
| 23-03-2006 08:37 by Big Rob |
i work in a pet shop most popular cure sold by us is ws formula 3 |
| 23-03-2006 19:44 by anna |
hi i have found that there is def a hardier strain of white spot knocking around, iv had great success actually using a pond treatment 4 ponds called ulcerkit by nishikoi. You could also try giving your malawis a salt bath and maybe even thinking about puttin a uv sterilizor on ur system as u can pick 1 up 4 a 200l tank foe about £25ish |
| 28-03-2006 20:24 by yanton |
Just brought and fixed up a vectron uv unit, so hopefully that will knock out the whitespot once and for all. |
| 29-03-2006 12:58 by yanton |
amazingly, i only put the vectron uv unit on last night (tuesday) and by this morning, the whitespot has already gone, no flicking or itching - talk about quick work - 12 hours. |
| 29-03-2006 19:54 by JK |
Nice one yanton, I still can't work out why more people don't try this.  I would still leave it running for another couple of weeks, just to be sure. |
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