A few weeks ago i went to pets at home and purchased two female gouramis, I knew when i bought them that they had white spot. The people in the shop were reluctant to sell me them but when i told them i had some white spot treatment and a tank to keep them seperate from my other fish they let me pick them out.
At the time i couldnt find any female gouramis as the petshops only sold the males as apparently the females were too undesirable.
I treated them for white spot even though the ones i had picked had no visable signs of the parasite. I know they could still carry it as it lasts a while. I finnished the full course of treatment then put them into my comunity tank 2 weeks after this and they died not long after. My male then died along with a few of my other fish and now i have a female guppy who was hanging around the filter and today she has visible white spot. I know stupid me but what do i do? should i put her out of her misery or what? I have removed her from the main tank
2007-10-28 11:34:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
And am treating every tank in the house, I have raised the temperature and took out the carbon but is this girl going to make it or am i just going to make her suffer and if so what is the most humane way of doing this?
Please no sick jokes
2007-10-28 11:36:47 · update #1
What you need is a methylene blue treatment for the tank. The whole tank is infected that is now your problem.
Clean out your filters or replace the elements with in them. Remove rocks or other tank objects and wash under the hot water tap, or as hot as the items can with stand before putting back. Remove 25% water now and replace with fesh, try and clean the gravel at the same time of decaying debris as this harbours and breeds the germs. Add methylene blue treatment as stated on the bottle, do not overdose, under dose will do very little. Allow 2 days to pass and examine the fish, you should by now see improvement. Repeat the removal of water from the tank (25%) and add more fresh water. Add 1/4 of the methylene blue what was stated as the dose for your tank. You will need to do this even if the fish does not survive, if all die then you will need to sterize the tank and rebuild it. What you can also do if the infection is bad is to make a dilute solution of methylene blue, say 100:1 with water. Capture the fish and gently paint the solution onto it. Quartentine the fish, but you will need to sort the main tank out as I have stated above.
2007-10-28 12:02:46 · answer #1 · answered by pildriver69 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I was using a white spot treatment in my tank when all my fish kept dying on me.....it was one of those multi remedy treatments. They still kept dying. The guy at my petshop said that if you are certain of the disease to buy the treatment specially for that disease as the multi remedy's are often diluted. If you treat your tank with the right stuff you should see results in a matter of hours. Guppies are pretty hardy little fish but they do suffer from stress. I wouldn't advise a complete clean out til she is looking better. But your tank definately needs one. 25% water changes always help.
2007-10-28 19:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a 50% partial waterchange with a gravelsiphon
fill it back up with conditioned water
Raise your temperature to 88 degrees (they can easily take it) which should be up for at least 10 days
Take a clean cup and take out some of your tanks water
Put in 1 tablespoon per 1 gallon of aquarium salt and let it dissolve
so on a 10 gallon, that would be 10 table spoons of salt
do partial waterchanges of 25% every 2 days and replace the taken out salt, which means 2.5 tablespoons on a 10 gallon
do this treatment for at least 10 days, and you should be able to cure your fish
Hope that helps
Good luck
EB
Feel free to email me for further help
2007-10-28 20:46:18 · answer #3 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that's quite a bind you have there.
Sorry to hear about all the deaths.
I would finish treatment and see how she goes.
However if you do try euthenasha there are many ways to do so. Many people suggest freezing them or flushing down the toilet however i have heard the quickest way is to crush it head.
2007-10-28 18:55:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If she doesn't look like she's dying this very second, just treat her. Putting her out of her misery won't clean the tank, so treat her until she looks like she's CTD (circling the drain) then....you know CTD...is all I can think of. Good Luck
2007-10-28 18:49:54 · answer #5 · answered by halter_broke 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what ever possessed you to buy fish with white spot first of all.
all you can do is treat your guppy and learn from your mistakes
2007-10-28 19:03:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it could possibly be ich
2007-10-28 20:42:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋