White spots on my goldfishes?

Question

i have a few fishes all goldies and 2 plants in my tank recently my biggest fish about 2 inches counting his tail has gotten visible white spots all over it is this ich? and a couple others has a few on them too im buying the medicine tomrrow how shuld i trreat the fish?

Answer 1

Yep. most likely ich. You basically have two treatment options.

Change a large portion of the water, about 50-60% while cleaning the gravel very well.
Clean the filter and change all the media but leave out the carbon.
Add 1 tablespoon of salt per gallon of the tank.
Raise the temperature to 88-90 F. Raise it slowly, about 1 degree per hour. You may need to add an air stone or two depending on the type of fish and how heavily the tank is stocked. Treat for at least 7 days after you see the last white spots on any of the fish. After the treatment return the tank temperature to normal.

OR

Use a good ick medication as directed on the bottle. Try to find a medication that used Malachite Green as the active ingredient. (CAUTION: Malachite Green is a known carcinogen. Be careful not to get it on your skin!) Quick Cure is a good choice.
Change 25% or more of the water daily being sure to clean the gravel as you do so.
Continue the treatment for at least 7 days after you see the last white spots on any of the fish. After the treatment, return the carbon to your filter.

The salt and heat method can be used on goldfish without harming the fish in anyway, but care should be taken to increase aeration with an airstone or by keeping the water level lowered by an inch or so to allow the filter to waterfall into the tank and cause it to splash a bit.

MM

Answer 2

You can treat this with either medication (something with both malachite green and formalin like Quick Cure or Rid Ich is the best) or aquarium salt. Add the salt gradually to 1 tablespoon per gallon, but mix the salt with water before adding it to the tank.

It also helps to raise the temperature during the treatment, since this will speed up the life cycle of the parasite. While the parasites are attached to the fish they are protected inside a cyst, so the treatment doesn't affect them. Raising the temperature makes them drop off the fish faster so they can be killed by the treatment. A temperature of 86-90o is best, but this needs to be adjusted slowly, a few degree each hour.

Expect the treatment to take 10-14 days, or at least 3-5 days after you no longer see the spots on the fish. If you stop treatment too early, you risk the fish being reinfected by parasites in the water (where you can't see them) that haven't yet been killed by the treatment.

Remember to remove any carbon from your filter, and reduce the water temperature slowly to allow your fish time to adjust.

It is possible that your fish may have velvet, which is another parasite. You can distinguish between the two by turning off the lights and shining a bright flashlight on the fish. If the white spots have a gold-rust color, this would be velvet (ich will still look white). Treatment for velvet can also be done with malachite green and formalin, but since this particular parasite has the ability to use photosynthesis, it can exist for a longer time off the fish if it has light. So an important part of the treatment here is to turn off the aquarium lights during the course of treatment. Treatment is typically two weeks, as for ich, but I've recently dealt with a case where it took three weeks to clear it from a betta. As with ich, continue treating 3-5 days after you no longer see the spots.

See the links below for more info on these two conditions:

Answer 3

Make read the instruction and usally the tank shouldnt have a running filter system because it will remove the medicine and waste money and since they are goldfishes they dont need a airstone since they cant swim well with one.

Also you can put the temperature up to 90 degree Farhrenheit to speed-up the ich's(ick) ageing and the goldfish will survive since they can live in 33 to 90degree Fahrenheit water.

WT

Answer 4

it could be ich or other paracites lie velet.

Aquarium salt, and other products like jungle buddies paracite clear will cure them. I know they are goldfish but goldfish can handle high temps as well. Increase the water temp as this will make the paracite go though its life cycle faster and not harm the fish.

And yes again goldfish can handle warm water so increase the water temp.

Answer 5

Buy ich medchine as soon as possible so you can stop it fast. if you notice your fish rubbing against the glass that means that they have ich and they are trying to rub it off on the glass but it just makes it worst. In the future you should have a medical take for sick and/or injured fish so that they can recover and not spread any germs.( your medical tank can be very small)

Answer 6

Yes it is ICK and they say you can cure it...but i have never been able to....youll have to bury those fish then completely clean out your tank...throw away the gravel...i know waste of money...then get hot water and vinegar and scrub the tank...really good...and keep the tank empty for weeks..then scrub it again with just vinegar...then refill...oh ya throw out any plants or houses anything you had in your old tank...or youll get ICK right back.again...change any filters and clean real good...with vineger...good luck..

Answer 7

PUT THE ICH... MEDACINE IN THE TANK AND DONT RUN THE FILTER FOR 1 OR 2 DAY WITH THE MEDACINE. IF ANY PROPS CONTACT ME MORE .

Answer 8

yes its ich. so treat it before it gets too bad and you might be able to save it.