How to treat white spot infection in fishes?

Question

My few fishes hv developed white spots on their fins and bodies, those are gold fishes and tetras.
Please help me out how to treat that. I hv got a green coloured solution but i dont know how to use that.
I hv made a 100% water change today only.

Please guide me through.

Answer 1

Ich (Ichthyophthirius multifiliis)

Symptoms: Salt-like specks on the body/fins. Excessive slime. Problems breathing (ich invades the gills), clamped fins, loss of appetite.

Ich, Ick, white spot disease, whatever the name, this is the most common malady experienced in the home aquarium. Luckily, this disease is also easily cured if caught in time! Ich is actually a protozoa called Ichthyophthirius multifiliis. There are three phases to the life cycle of this protozoa. Normally, to the amateur aquarist, the life cycle is of no importance. However, since Ich is susceptible to treatment at only one stage of the life cycle, an awareness of the life cycle is important.

Adult phase - it is embedded in the skin or gills of the fish, causing irritation (with the fish showing signs of irritation) and the appearance of small white nodules. As the parasite grows it feeds on red blood cells and skin cells. After a few days it bores itself out of the fish and falls to the bottom of the aquarium.
Cyst phase - after falling to the bottom, the adult parasite forms into a cyst with rapid cell divisions occurring.
Free swimming phase - after the cyst phase, about 1000 free swimming young swim upwards looking for a host. If a host is not found within 2 to 3 days, the parasite dies. Once a host is found the whole cycle begins anew.
These three phases take about 4 weeks at 70º F but only 5 days at 80º F. For this reason it is recommended that the aquarium water be raised to about 80º for the duration of the treatment. If the fish can stand it, raise the temperature even higher up to 85º.
The free swimming phase is the best time to treat with chemicals. Raising the aquarium temperature to 80º F will greatly shorten the time for the free swimming phase to occur. The drug of choice is quinine hydrochloride at 30 mg per liter (1 in 30,000). Quinine sulphate can be used if the hydrochloride is not available. The water may cloud but this will disappear. By reducing the time (with raised temperature) of the phases, you should be able to attack the free swimming phase effectively.
Some aquarists like to use malachite green, but it tends to stain the plastic and silicone in the aquarium. Most commercial remedies contain malachite green and/or copper, which are both effective.

Answer 2

Ok. Do exactly what Pam says above, but don't treat the tank...treat the fish in a separate container(like a CLEAN bucket or pail). They are only supposed to be in ick treatment for usually about 15 minutes per treatment. If you put the treatment in the tank itself they will be exposed to it for to long. While you are treating them though, change the water in the tank. Follow the directions for the dose of how much though. Don't over due it on the ick treatment, it can kill them, especially tetras. They are very sensitive to the ick treatment, it says it right on the bottles. I hope this helps you out a bit. Good luck with your fish.

Answer 3

It could be a bacterial infection. Try using an anti-bacterial treatment. Or you could just try adding a general tonic, especially if the fish have been added to the tank recently. Could I also say please check what your frog is. Clawed frogs grow quite big and will eat the other fish in the tank. If it's a dwarf frog, they remain quite small and won't eat the other fish. The way to tell is look at their front "feet". If they look webbed it's a dwarf frog, if it's not it's a clawed frog.

Answer 4

this means the PH (acidity or alcaline media) of the aquarium is not fair. The white spot algea is terrible as it eats the fish lately, but this green and blue solution will kill them too.

keep on changing the water daily, and buy a 250mg antibiotic capsules. Open the capsule and put in the aquarium water half the capsule powedr every 12 hours, if the aquarium takes 2 litres+. 3 days of this treatment + changing the water regulary, will do the trick.

Answer 5

your fish have Ick there is a treatment liquid for that at any pet store or place that sells pet supplies. treat per directions, u will need to know how many gallons your tank holds.

Answer 6

Most probably it's the water temperature, around 28`C. If this continues, need to add medication into the water.

Answer 7

if your green colored solution is malachite green then you can use that. not knowing what the solution is its hard to tell you how much to use.

i use aquarium salt and a malachite green/formalin medicine called "quick cure". you can research it as the parasite "ich" on google. good luck.