How to get rid of 'white spot' on 'goldfish?

Answer 1

Kill the fish! Kill 'em all!!!

Answer 2

Whitespot is very easily treated with any of the shop bought medications as long as you follow the instructions. Once you have cleared the problem put a copper coin in your tank(bury it under the gravel) you will never get it again as whitespot cannot tolerate copper. I have used this method for many years and never had it again, even with new fish that are stressed. Good luck. p.s. if you can raise the tempreture by a couple of degrees it would help medication work better.

Answer 3

get some white spot treatment for goldfish from a pet shop

Answer 4

You need to treat the fish with Anti White Spot (Interpet produce a good one and it is available from your pet store). As white spot is contagious you need to clean everything thoroughly before treatment and do not touch your face with the water. Hope this is useful.

Answer 5

No no, don't get Ich (white spot) medication. It's a chemical and it will do far more harm than good. When I used ot use Ich Meds, it would kill the ich, but it would also kill most of my fish and any scaless fish like plecos and loaches, and any invertebrates.
Now that I use a salt treatment, I rarely lose fish.

First, do a LARGE water change, like 40%, and vacuum the gravel. Fill it back up.

Get some AQUARIUM salt (not table salt or marine salt). Use 1tbsp of salt per gallon of water. Put the salt in a cup of dechlorinated water and let it disolve first (if you poor the crystals right into the water, it will burn your fishes' gills).

Also increase the temperature to 78-82F (increase it a degree or so every hour).

Leave it like this for 2 weeks. At 82F, the Ich lifecycle can be complete in 4-8 days, so you want to make sure that the salt has a good chance to kill off the parasites. Ich is only killable by meds or salt during one of its lifestages (when it's free-swimming).

Then resume weekly water changes as usual, and the salted water will eventually be replaced by freshwater.

So, salt kills Ich just as well as the meds do (if not better), but it doesn't hurt your fish or plants in any way.

Answer 6

Go to a pet shop or aquatics centre and ask them for white spot treatment. you put it in the water and it cures the white spot. works really quickly too. normally in a few days. repeat the treatment a week later just to be on the safe side.

Answer 7

the best thing is a treatment you can add to the water from a pet shop.

if you cant afford a treatment then add a spoon of salt and hope for the best.

without treatment all your fish will be contaminated and you will lose them.

as with all treatments read the usage instructions well to prevent overdosing you water.
if you have sensitive fish such as clown Roche's in your tank, speak to an aquarium specialist first.

hope you save your fishes x

Answer 8

There are many ways to treat ich infestations in goldfish but not all treatments are equal or can be used for all types of fish or all aquatic environments. I will only discuss the options I prefer to use in my maintenance business or in my personal aquariums.
For freshwater a Malachite Green/ Formalin combination has generally been the most effective for moderate to severe infestations. “Quick Cure” is good product with this combination of medications. Malachite Green by itself as in “Nox Ich” is also effective in moderate infestations. Other treatments of note are copper sulfate and Quinine Sulfate or Hydrochloride. For scale-less or delicate fish use Malachite Green at half dose. The safest treatment for scale-less fish is Quinine Hydrochloride, but this is less effective than other treatments, although it can be combined with half strength Malachite Green for more effectiveness.
For mild to moderate infestations (even some severe) I also use “Medicated Wonder Shells” as these products have Malachite Green (lower levels safe for most delicate fish), acriflavin, and small amounts of methylene blue (not enough to affect bio filtration) and copper. What is best about these “Medicated Wonder Shells” is that they also add electrolytes, calcium and maintain a proper KH, which is very important for treatment with Malachite Green as this medication is more toxic at lower pH and KH.

The health aquatic environment can play a major role in susceptibility to the ich parasites. High ammonia and nitrites severely stress a fish. Also long term nitrates above 50 ppm in freshwater or 30 ppm in saltwater can weaken the immune system in fish. Calcium is also often forgotten as an essential to fish health (including soft water fish such as Discus). Without calcium fish cannot carry out many osmotic functions and are more susceptible to disease, including ich infestations.
A healthy, cycled aquarium with a steady temperature and a KH above 80 ppm is less likely to develop ich, or when it does, a healthy aquarium will have a less serious and more easily treatable infestation.

For more information about aquarium ich, please see this article:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Ich.html

Some of these treatments are available here:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquariumtreatments.html

Good luck!

Answer 9

the White spot is to show that the fish is ill, and will soon die. It happened to my sister, we found a white spot on the fish and it died a couple of days later.

Answer 10

Get white spot treatment.

Answer 11

Interpet 6 or use esha 2000.I use the esha.Stress causes white spot.