Oscar white spot

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clarius catfish

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My jaguar and Oscar have recently developed white spot (ich) it is only on the side fins and the Oscar has 10 spot in only one day. i have already tried salt and that has not worked. will white spot chemicals defiantly work or is it not worth trying. i also has a clarius catfish and a tinfoil and they have not yet got white spot. none of my fish do fight and i have never had it in the 2 years i have kept my Oscar???

p.s.please answer quickly so that i can buy it or not!!!!! :-(
 
That is not good! I wish I could help, I havent had to deal with that...
 
try this remove the fish that has ich to a qt tank and treat them with meds. do daily water changes in the main tank also raise the temp up slowly and steadily there so the rest will probably have a chance to fight the ich off since they aren't showing any signs.
rule no 1 no salt is to be in the same tank with the ich meds period.it will kill the fish. rule 2 water is always to be clean an de-chlorinated,
no 3 added aeration is necessary.
no 4 no active carbon is to be in the filter system when you are medicating your fish.only after a week that your fish aren't showing any symptoms of ich that the carbon filter can be added to take away any left over meds in the tank.
ps catfishes and other scaless fish don't do well with salt. a medication dose of half strenght is used for sensitive fishes
 
there is not much point in taking the fish out the tank as the tank will have the free swimming ich in the water, i never use chemicals when ive had to deal with it before ive just raised the water temp above 30 c for a few days to a week the higher temp will normally kill it off

i have already given u this advice tho :)

maybe u need to look at why your fish have devolped it, new additions? water quality problems?
 
catfish wont do well with a full dose of meds as treatment thats why i told him to remove the severely infected ones as the rest have not shown signs of the ich yet.
 
its more then likely if the fish have ich it is already free swimming so the whole tank needs to be adressed anyway catfish included, personally i would steer clear of meds. white spot imo is usually easily treated without
 
clarius catfish;4422509; said:
i did have a new addition jaguar cichlid didnt have white spot though
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Not that you could see. It could have brought a handful of the parasites in with him that weren't in the visible cyst form yet
 
oh well it's his fish anyway.if he does the salt and heat thing as long as the fish still has ich i'mt betting the catfish and more sensative fish in his tank will soon be goners
 
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