White Spot Contamination
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Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
White Spot Contamination
I have a question...I recently lost all my fish to whitespot (I set up a new tank, cycled it, left it cycling for a week bought some Tetras from the LFS and one of them obviously had whitespot. I followed all the instructions for treating it but unfortunately was unsuccessful) and now have an empty tank which I am going to use to breed snails in to feed a puffer...I need to know whether the tank will be contaminated. I have thrown all the plants away and boiled the stones and equipment and left the tank outside in the sun/rain for a week. Is there any chance the equipment etc could still be contaminated.
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Bred
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Ich will die off within a lifecycle if it does not find a suitable (fish) host. Depending on your temperature, this time duration could be anywhere between 6 and 30 days. Should be fine.
You do know that cycling is an ongoing process which takes up to 30 days, and that if you run a tank without any livestock your beneficial bacteria will die off, right?
You do know that cycling is an ongoing process which takes up to 30 days, and that if you run a tank without any livestock your beneficial bacteria will die off, right?
Not huge, but if Shermy's got anything to do with it, just to save you fretting, get an unwaxed lemon and some marine salt, cut the lemon in half and dip it in the salt, scrub every inch inside and out, and then rinse like your life depends on it.
The salt and lemon should knack everything without leaving toxic residues on the glass.
Good luck!
Pami.
The salt and lemon should knack everything without leaving toxic residues on the glass.
Good luck!
Pami.
As Bred stated, all you need to do is keep the tank empthy for a while. Two weeks should do it. A little longer if you want. If all you are doing is putting snails in there, its not like they are going to get ich. However, since you have been treating with who knows what kind of medication, make sure you do a couple water changes and maybe run some fresh carbon to get rid of any medication. (If the med. had Formalin or copper , your snails cant handle that.)
Thanks so much guys. You've all be very helpful...
With cycling I used the quick cycle and then put some plants etc in the tank and let it airate for a week and then I put the fish in and continued to use the cycle as instructed on the bottle. Is that correct?
I will wash all the equipment with lemon and salt as you sugested and make sure its out of water drying off property for a couple of days.
DJuzz is going to help me set up Shermys tank and we will transport half the water thats in the tank so that he only gets a 50% water change so the bacteria etc will all still be there.
With cycling I used the quick cycle and then put some plants etc in the tank and let it airate for a week and then I put the fish in and continued to use the cycle as instructed on the bottle. Is that correct?
I will wash all the equipment with lemon and salt as you sugested and make sure its out of water drying off property for a couple of days.
DJuzz is going to help me set up Shermys tank and we will transport half the water thats in the tank so that he only gets a 50% water change so the bacteria etc will all still be there.
It's the filter media, gravel and - to a lesser extent, plants, ornaments - that carry the bugs...not the water. Forget most of the water and make sure you carry the above mentioned equipment in some tank water...very quickly, and transfer them as fast as you can and get the tank filled with new water.
Be sharp, though, plan out the move, so the bugs are not left without food for long...make sure they're always submerged in old tank water so they've got some food.
Pami.
Be sharp, though, plan out the move, so the bugs are not left without food for long...make sure they're always submerged in old tank water so they've got some food.
Pami.
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