My Black Moor has white spots all over it, HELP!?!?

Question

He is a very large Black Moor and has white spots all over him. It looks like salt crystals or even air bubbles. I have 2 more Black Moors but they don't have the same problem. I have a 55gal. tank with about 15 other small fish besides the 3 Black Moors. What can I do to help this problem?

Answer 1

Goldfish are known for catching ick. it sounds like what your problem is. if you have a ten gallon tank, take your infected fish and put them in and treat them for three to five days. do not treat in your 55 gallon tank. the cause of ick is a dirty tank and over feeding them. do not follow feeding instructions on your food container. they tell you to feed your fish three times a day. that is too much. these companies want you to buy more. only feed them twice a day. just enough food that they will eat within five minutes. clean your tank well with a python suction hose every two weeks. it will cure your ick. do not BUY FISH FROM WALMART!

Answer 2

I have to say I don't think this problem is ick! Ick is more commonly know as White spot, which is caused by a microscopic parasite which clings to the fish and feeds off blood and bodily mucus. The parasite would have shown up before now if its a newly introduced fish, and the fish would be covered in little white spots all over the body and fins. There are two possibilities for this problem, one is unusual but not unheard of, especially with badly transported fish. By that I mean between the aquatic wholesalers/breeders, and the shop. The problem is possibly fish lice, which are an aquatic crustacean which latch onto the fish, and suck blood. They can move about on the fish, and often do so if the spot moves around the head, then this is what it is. The lice can breed very quickly and reproduce a-sexually, and can, if left untreated, completely cover a fish. This usually results in death of the fish, but since this problem is a single spot, I don't think this is what it is, but its a possibility all the same. The most likely cause is a condition called Carp Pox. Carp pox is a very common problem in ornamental carp (such as Goldfish and Koi), it is caused by a viral infection similar to the human herpes virus. It does not seem to cause the fish much distress and the fish will continue to swim and eat readily, but it is definitely unsightly. Carp pox shows itself as off white waxy lumps predominantly on a fish’s tail and fins, and is often brought on by stress or dropping water temperatures and often reoccurs during winter only to improve when temperatures rise again. A fishes immunity system will normally fight off this infection and I would recommend no treatment. In your case you have a coldwater Moor, which may have been kept in conditions that were too cold for it while it was at the shop. Hence the condition appearing now. The pox can show as one or two waxy white lumps, on any part of the fish, but it is more commonly seen on the face and fins. There are a multiple amount of different so called cures for the condition, but none actually kill the Virus, as the fish, once healthier through proper feeding and water chemistry, will fight off the virus itself. The actual virus, is an aquatic form of the Viral herpes in humans, and once the fish becomes exposed, will always carry it, even after they fight it off. They may not always show symtoms, but every time the fish becomes overly stressed or ill, then they may start to redevelop the growths. One treatment I can recommend to help the fish as it recovers is Koivits. Koivits is a revolutionary multivitamin spray that can be sprayed onto any food before feeding to supplement the vitamins and minerals in the food. Koivits helps assist in the recovery of from injury or illness especially carp pox. To bring the fish into better health, a change of diet is called for. Just feeding flakes or pellets isn't enough, not only is the same daily food boring for the fish, not all flakes or pellets can provide for a fancy goldfish. You need to start feeding a mixture of frozen bloodworm and daphnia, but in small amounts so as not to upset the water chemistry. And to increse the fish's energy to help fight off infection, try feeding a few grains of boiled wheat, which the love, and also a little bit of scalded and shredded spinach which increases iron levels to enrich blood flow.

Answer 3

Your fish has ick, it sounds like. Buy some ick medicine at the pet store and change 50% of the water. Treat the tank according to the instrucitons on the meds.Be sure that you take the charcoal filter cartridge out of the filter during treatment. Wait 24 hours after 1st treatment and change another 50% of the water and retreat.

Answer 4

Since it looks like salt crystals, it's 99.999% likely it's ich. I have an ich treatment called Nox-Ich; it works wonderfully, and it's safe to use with scale-less fish and tetras. I've only had to use it three times in my tank (the initial treatment and only two follow-up treatments), and I haven't had a problem with ich since then, and it's been about 6 or 7 months.

Best of luck!!!

Answer 5

It sounds like Ick. You will probably have to treat the whole tank. Pick up anti-ick meds at the pet store.

Answer 6

Yep. Ich. There's a medicine that comes in a blue bottle that works pretty well. Can't remember the name though but it works.


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Answer 7

hey ChrisJ i have a 55 gallon tank too, with 13 goldfish - 7 blackmoors and 6 fancy goldfish.
i use a medication called aquarisol. it gets rid of the salt like crystals. those salt like crystals are called "ick".
i hope this helps

Answer 8

nothing for now but if it's not better in a few days go to the pet store and see if there's anything there