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Posted	White Spot
30-06-2006 21:57 by Jodie Bake	Can anyone help? I am quite new to fish and I have a goldfish who has developed a white spot with a red centre? My husband thinks one of the other fish has had a go at him, but I am not too sure. Any ideas?
30-06-2006 22:17 by TARTINJOCK	Can you post a pic, loads of knowledgeable peeps on here, a pic would help identify the problem.
30-06-2006 22:35 by rob r	sounds more like an ulcer lfs have treatments
30-06-2006 22:49 by Jodie Bake	here is pic (if it works!) hope this helps.....
30-06-2006 22:52 by mollie	go on google "fish disease "images then you can decide what it is that,s wrong , best of luck
30-06-2006 22:53 by Jodie Bake	to rob r.... you posted "sounds more like an ulcer lfs have treatments" "lfs" ....what is this...? sorry, i'm new to fishkeeping !
30-06-2006 22:53 by rob r	whitespot is smallspots thats not whitespot poss ulcer
30-06-2006 22:55 by rob r	local fish shop or pet shop they should have a good range of treatments .do an intro then we know more about you .where yopu are what youve got etc
30-06-2006 22:56 by telboy	jodie lfs =local fish shop!i agree with rob looks + sounds like ulcer get some treatments from shop
30-06-2006 22:57 by Lexter	lfs is a strange name Roberto, i have been in fish keeping years it still confuses me prefer "fish shop" could it be fungus???? Jodie, are you a chef, or is your surname baker and you couldnt fit in the R ?????
30-06-2006 22:58 by Lexter	but obviously the nearest fish shop would be "local" anyway answers on a post card fella's
30-06-2006 23:00 by Lexter	back to the point, Jodie, is that the same white mark on the bottom fin? could be fungus? i might be wrong coz aint no goldfish expert, but would about some tonic aquarium salt at a dise that will combat fungus etc????
30-06-2006 23:00 by Jodie Bake	Have put intro on new members section. My surname is Baker, made a typo! Don't know how to change it!
30-06-2006 23:01 by rob r	jodie if youve been following the forum youl realise we are some of the nutters.but the advice is good
30-06-2006 23:01 by Jodie Bake	No white mark on bottom of fin, this is where the light from the camera got him!
30-06-2006 23:02 by Lexter	who you callin a nutter you nutter
30-06-2006 23:02 by rob r	didnt see fin lex is prob right
30-06-2006 23:03 by rob r	nutters r us .hope u r a nutter as well jodie
30-06-2006 23:04 by Lexter	regarding the fungus issue, the red spot in the middle indicates its not fungus??? lets get some links on here to good website's i will go hunting,
30-06-2006 23:07 by Lexter	http://www.waterlife.co.uk/waterlife/disease.htm http://www.fishdoc.co.uk/disease/diseasehome.htm http://www.tropicalfishcentre.co.uk/Diseases1.htm
30-06-2006 23:08 by kell	http://www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html Could be Columnarius, looks like it and sounds like it, theres some good images on that link Ive posted.
30-06-2006 23:09 by kell	Also Jodie, have you checked your water parameters
30-06-2006 23:12 by kell	well the link used to work, dont know whats happened
30-06-2006 23:13 by rob r	link works just been on kell
30-06-2006 23:13 by Lexter	the link works kell
30-06-2006 23:14 by kell	na its a totally different site to what is was before.
30-06-2006 23:14 by rob r	hehehe shes wed
30-06-2006 23:14 by Lexter	rob r - i was gonna say that, now bog off and let me have this thread
30-06-2006 23:15 by Lexter	i am not after her Kell, just dont like Rob R butting in
30-06-2006 23:16 by rob r	what
30-06-2006 23:17 by Jodie Bake	So what would be the best thing for me to buy to treat "Nemo" (my son named them all. bless him!)
30-06-2006 23:17 by Lexter	pulling your leg rodriquez, i would never diss a mexican, just kiddin
30-06-2006 23:18 by Lexter	jodie, is nemo behaving strange, listless? scratching on rocks? not eating?
30-06-2006 23:18 by kell	a good anti bacterial medicine and a water change..... what can you tell us about the tank, ie size, filteration etc
30-06-2006 23:19 by Jodie Bake	Water was changed a couple of days ago, it has a filter in it, I don't know what size it is... I am not very good at this fishy thing.
30-06-2006 23:19 by rob r	anti bacterial n ulcer treatment .oops sorry vexter
30-06-2006 23:20 by rob r	and aquarium salt
30-06-2006 23:20 by Lexter	if goldfish are ok with salt (someone please confirm) i would try with some aqaurium tonic salt at a decent dose and see that that does after one week if the fish doesnt seem to be behaving "ill" then this would further strengthen my belief in using salt, as you still have time to experiment, and salt may clear it up
30-06-2006 23:20 by Jodie Bake	No, Nemo is behaving perfectly normal. Mr Crabs, the minnow, does chase him around and looks like he pecks him all the time. Could this have anything to do with it?
30-06-2006 23:20 by rob r	when changing water use dechlorinator
30-06-2006 23:21 by kell	what do you do at waterchange, how much, do you clean your filter. These sort of illness sorta indicate something is wrong in your tank, the more that we know the better we can advise you.
30-06-2006 23:22 by Jodie Bake	I change one third of the water, and clean the filter in the old water, this was what I was told to do. I have water treatments, that I was told to put a capful in when I change the water
30-06-2006 23:22 by kell	I dissagree lexter, Ive a baby molly with fungus eyes and she has been in a salt bath for a while nothing is working.
30-06-2006 23:22 by rob r	salt is good on golds lex
30-06-2006 23:22 by Lexter	if you follow Kells advise make sure you do the water CHANGE before you add the meds tho!
30-06-2006 23:23 by kell	what treatments, how bigs your tank
30-06-2006 23:23 by Lexter	if a fish gets too stressed they are much more likely to get diseased FACT depends.... if nemo is getting stressed by Mr Crabs then you may have to think about seperating them, but the odd bit of chasing is ok is Mr Crabs feeling frisky??? if he is, he must practice safe mating, coz his name indicates he is a "player"
30-06-2006 23:24 by kell	lmao
30-06-2006 23:24 by Lexter	Kell - its not a guarenteed cure, but salt on its own is well known of being capable of eliminating fungus without the needs for meds
30-06-2006 23:24 by Jodie Bake	Aqua plus - water conditioner and cycle - biological aquarium supplement
30-06-2006 23:26 by rob r	youre shop is just making cash off you .none of those are cures
30-06-2006 23:26 by Jodie Bake	Absolutely! I said this to my hubby earlier.
30-06-2006 23:26 by kell	new direction...does the fish look like it has scales missing, like a sorta indent
30-06-2006 23:27 by Jodie Bake	I never bought them as cures, they told me to put them in with every water change.
30-06-2006 23:27 by kell	looks on the picture like missing scales, this would be a white mark, red if it was deep enough.
30-06-2006 23:29 by Jodie Bake	It's got a red middle. Husband says "it could be fluffy with a red centre"
30-06-2006 23:32 by kell	what do you think its looks like.
30-06-2006 23:33 by Jodie Bake	It's got a white bit hanging of it, with a red dot in the middle, it's nowhere else on his body. Will try the salt and see how we go, could just be scales missing like you say, so many things to consider with all the posts, difficult to decide now
30-06-2006 23:35 by kell	thats it it could be anything, my fish lost some scale and it was like raggy around the edge of the site.
30-06-2006 23:35 by Jodie Bake	What salt stuff should I buy? Any recommendations?
30-06-2006 23:36 by kell	tonic salt you buy it from the pet shop.
30-06-2006 23:40 by Lexter	it's fungus
30-06-2006 23:40 by Jodie Bake	ok, will do, thanks for your help everybody!
30-06-2006 23:41 by Lexter	i have found the INTERPET fungus treatment always works well on fungus, its marketed at FUNGUS and FINROT i think
30-06-2006 23:43 by Lexter	but saying that, salt could be good, but you will find the instructions maybe poor, read up on the website links i gave you
30-06-2006 23:45 by kell	I would try salt first, drastic going for meds.
30-06-2006 23:49 by Jodie Bake	Will get some tonic tomorrow. Thanks again, logging off now
05-07-2006 10:55 by Jodie Bake	Just thought I should let you all know, that although all your advice was really good, it looks like it may just have been missing scales, and they are looking much better from just leaving them be. We have workmen in the house at the moment making a lot of noise with drills etc so he was probably just stressed out!

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