My pictus catfish has a few white dots on it which it looks like ich but yet it dosent icth or rub, it acts like it is suppose to. Does it have ich? It looks like the dots have been multiplying and my other fish (black kuhli loach, dwarf gourmai male) have not been infected by this stuff. Is it ich or not because I have a book on disease yet I don't really understand.
2007-06-11 16:00:34 · 3 answers · asked by lupelaugeher 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Unless you have a microscope and can examine the "white dots" then you are probably better off not jumping the gun. Most ich medicines would be toxic to the catfish and loach and thus I wouldn't risk killing the other fish for something that might not be there.
There are various fish diseases that come with the symptoms of "white dots" upon the body. Your best bet would be to do vigorous partial water changes and add aquarium salt. This will not only treat ich but also treat many other fish diseases too.
2007-06-11 16:25:51 · answer #1 · answered by rian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ich will look sort of like little grains of sugar or little white crumbs. If the white spots have longer "filaments", cotton -like(?),you are dealing with a fungus. If you decide to treat your tank,be very careful,some treatments are not for scaleless fish,and will harm or even kill a catfish. First try SLOWLY raising the temperature of the water to the high 80's if you think the fish has ich. Then do more research on treating catfish with ich.
2007-06-11 16:10:29 · answer #2 · answered by PeeTee 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes its ich, get some medicine and treat it. catfish are more prone to it than the other fish. by the time the others show symptoms, the catfish will probably be dead or too far along that it cant be helped.
2007-06-11 16:05:39 · answer #3 · answered by freetronics 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋