White Spots - Help ...

[PLee]

Hi, I notice a few of my dither fish have white spots and have since remove them a couple of days back.

However today I notice a white spot on the top portion of the male Apisto.

What treatment can be done?

[Milk]

Wow...White spot in a mature tank???A 2ft tank somemore??
Anyway, to share with you how i deal with white spot myself...

1:Change 20% of the tank water
2:Catch/transfer/isolate the affected fishes into a holding tank.
3:Bath the affected fish with yellow powder solution for not more than 15min and remember to provide aeration at all time during this process.
4:Bath the affected fish with commercial white spot treatment medicine solution for not more than 10 min.
5:Return the affected fish back to the holding/isolation tank.
6:Repent the same process for 2~3 days.,Once daily

As for the duration for the medicine bath, I recommand that you start with 5 min first before hitting the max time.The step for 2 might be extra if the commerical white spot treatment solution help and the fish is not too much affected.(small and little affected area.)

The white spot should cure with this procedure done..

Regards
Milk

[PLee]

its only a small single white spot on top of the fin...

none the less I will treat it with yellow powder first

[valice]

I leave them alone.
If your water condition is good, fish is healthy, they will survive the ordeal.

I try not to medicate my fishes. So far, previous medication to apistoes have not yielded any success. INstead, leaving them alone yielded better results.

[PLee]

thanx Valice.

I think I'd probably leave them alone as well. This white spots are from the dither fishes which I did not check during purchase

We'll be more careful next time when adding live stock to the tank

[illumnae]

from what i've read up, by the time your fish shows the symptoms of white spot, it already has the parasite in it, and is impervious to treatment. it is thus ineffective to isolate the fish and treat it with medication.

what you should be doing is to treat the tank itself as the parasite that causes white spot reproduces itself in the tank and not in the fish. the parasite is only vulnerable during the free swimming stage and thus medication should be put in to kill it during that time.

[PLee]

you mean I should put yellow powder into my 2 ft tank itself?

[illumnae]

i don't use yellow powder, but i do put those commercial medicines for white spot into the tank itself, as that's the way to kill the parasites that cause it - while they're in the water column itself and not protected by cysts while in the fish

[doppelbanddwarf]

While doing the water bath, do remember to cover the container you are doing the water bath in completely. Apistos are great jumpers.
I learnt my lesson the hard way.

[genes]

I'll leave them inside the tank and dose the medicine on the lean side into the tank. If your tank is properly cycled, the white spots should clear by themselves. Also start doing generously Nutrafin cycle. It really helps for me.

I'll only do bath treatment if the white spot is serious. Bathe treatement stresses the Apistos and can make them more sick.

[Barra21]

bro plee, is it white spots or a white small patch you see? It could actually be a bacteria infection. something like fin rot. It can come out as a patch of opague white area. If your water is good it'll heal as fast as it came. its quite common when fish are stressed eg transportation. For this yellow powder can be used.
For any dosing of chemicals, its best to have a seperate hsopital tank. This is so ur bb in ur filter is not killed.

But If it is indeed whitespot which you see, which is like speckles of white dots over the body, increase temperature and use methylene blue instead of the yellow powder. Its more effective.

Actually best is just leave it as it is for now and monitor the situation.
But If ur worried abt it drop me a pm or call. I'll see what i can help u with further.

[PLee]

yo Barra21. Nice to see you here...

It's white spots, I am trating it with heater and methylene blue

[illumnae]

bath treatment for white spot is quite useless...use meth blue and heater in the tank...dose i think every 4 days if i remember correctly and within 2 weeks all traces of the parasite will be gone

alternatively, if your fish are healthy like valice said just leave them to duke it out and the parasite will disappear by itself, especially since your tank is low population

[PLee]

Just added UV light to this treatment as well

Together with heater and methylene blue

[Wackytpt]

How the fish now?

[PLee]

UV too hot.. water temp goes to 32deg... I am trying to bring the temp back to 29 deg