i came back from a few days a way and found all my tropical fish have white spot what can i do help?

Answer 1

Dip out some water to take to the store for testing. Write down their results for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. You should have zero ammonia and nitrite and nitrates below twenty, or at least below forty. If you get different results than this, your water quality got bad while you were gone and that made the fish sick.

Ich will look like grains of salt stuck to your fish. If it looks fuzzy instead, it is not ich and you need to treat for fungus instead.

Do a large water change, being sure to match the temp to the water in the tank. Then gradually, over a couple of days, raise the temp to 86 degrees. You can also add salt -- one to two tablespoons per five gallons-- to your tank. If you do this, DO NOT also use ich meds. This is a safer, proven method to get rid of ich. The meds can be hard on your fish. Add the salt in two or three separate doses, dissolved in some tank water. You should do water changes during this period, being sure to vacuum the gravel well, since the ich organisms have a phase in their life cycle in which they live in the gravel. Just be sure to add the correct amount of salt to the water you add to the tank to keep the salinity up.

The ich organisms are killed after they leave your fish's bodies. Leave the temp up and the salt in until at least a week after you no longer see any ich spots. Then gradually lower the temp, and lower the salinity by doing a series of partial water changes.

You should get a test kit if you don't have one. This will help you to make sure your water is healthy for your fish. You do a water change whenever any of the parameters are out of the range I listed above.

Answer 2

It depends on what kind of fish you have.

For natural remedies that usually work well, you can raise the tank temperature to 86F, and add aquarium salt-- 1 tbsp per 5 gallons.

Most ich medicines will kill sensitive or scaleless fish-- and all invertebrates. That means it might kill any loaches, catfish, corys, snails, shrimp, etc. that are in your tank. There is medicines out there that are safe for scaleless fish, but you MUST read the label first. If you don't have any catfish or salt-sensitive fish, try the salt/temperature method first... It's much easier on the fish...

Answer 3

Your fish have a parasite called ich. It's contagious. Buy some medication at your local pet store.
Ich is caused by poor water quality or the temperature. You may want to check your water temperature. Ich is deadly. It killed one of my fish. It can kill the fish in a few days. Ich can be spotted if the fish have been behaving strangely. If they haven't been eating a lot or if you see something that looks like "grains of salt," it is definitely ich.

Answer 4

It might be ick or something worse. Call a tropical pet store and see what they can advise you on. Most of those pet stores will give you advice that is as good as going to a vet. They will probably sell you something to put in the water for a coupel of days and it should clear it all up.

Answer 5

Sounds like your fish has ich.Go to pet store and get some ich medicine.

Answer 6

I believe that this is called the ick. Change your water and clean tank pronto. Take a sample(old water) of water into a "fish" outlet and ask them to check it out, explain what happened and they will advise you.

Answer 7

That is called Ick or Ich. There is a solution that you can put in your tank and it is available at your local pet supply store.

Answer 8

Go to the store and buy medicine. Most pet stores will sell it. Cover the tank so it is dark, and turn up the heat (not too hot). IF it is livebearing, add salt too. Goodluck.

Answer 9

It's called "Ick". Go to the pet store and get drops to add to the water.

Answer 10

fish meds at the pet store. Ask one of the sales reps.