White spot disease pls help me

[Tj203]

i understand your situation is more complicated than most with all the stuff you have running and the sheer size of your tank, but even doing a large water 80% change in 240/300g on a regular weekly or daily basis with city tap water on a simple fish tank won’t change parameters much. My TDS is only 50ppm above city tap water, and doing a large water change brings it inline with my source water so doing it had little effect on the fish. The more water changes are done and with more frequency, the tank parameters aren’t very far from tap.

You hit the nail on the head it's not what I have running thoght it is that you tap water is very close to your tank parameters. So all you need to do is keep the temp close. Very lucky my water is soft and the PH is low kh and gh need to be adjusted too. But I use a continuous drip system. I recommend that to anyone who can do it keeps the tank very stable. First soft well water in the northeast lol. Imo it is much better to do Frequent smaller water changes then one big one. Will it kill your fish no. Is it creating unnecessary stress posable? Is unfortunately Is this hobby is basically purely anecdotal.

 

[tiger15]

I hate how paraguard starts to brown tint the water and make it cloudy by the 3rd or 4th day.

I don’t know why Paraguard brown tint your water after the third day. It didn’t happen to me. It green tint the water initially but far less opague than other MG remedies such as Kordon Rid Ick due to 1/10th lower MG strength. Paraguard is less harsh to live stock and therefore WC to reset is not necessary, but likely less effective as other MG based remedies.

 

[Jjiang00]

I do not raise temp when treating ick.
Although raising temp helps speed up the ick life cycle, it does not kill ick, especially ick variants from tropical countries..
And the raised temps sometimes make accompanying secondary bacterial infections more virulent.
Many pathogenic bacteria do best at higher temps, high 80sF to mid 90sF are just what thry need, and then they take advantage of the holes and lesions left where ick had attached to the fish.

Gotta agree with duanes here, i’ve treated dozens of fish with ich and have never lost any when just using salt at 1 tablespoon per 2 gallons. In my opinion the issues with ich happen when too many water parameters are changed at once and on top of dealing with ich, the fish is dealing with osmosis from the salt, adjusting to medication and now fluctuations with temp, that’ll kill it faster than the ich. And now if the dose of salt isn’t high enough to kill the free swimming trophants, the increased temps can rapidly increase the ich life cycle. Most of the time, I find people don’t put in enough salt to do damage, i’ve gone as high as 1 tablespoon per 1 gallon for scaled hardy fish like oscars, pacu, and they handle it perfectly fine, i’ve even put scaleless fish like rtc through 1 tablespoon per 2 gallons and he’s now 2 feet long. You can look up whatever fish you’re treating and put brackish behind it and if it inhabits any brackish waters naturally or have adapted invasively to brackish waters in florida and ppl fish for them there (peacock bass, oscars, etc), then you can assure they’ll tolerate 1-2 tablespoon per gallon which is more than enough to treat ich, and whatever secondary bacteria infections come along with it. If you wanna ne super accurate you can weigh it out and measure ppt like duanes said, but 1 tbsp per 2 gallons works perfectly fine as well. Hope your oscar is doing better, they’re usually super hardy and can handle close to brackish conditions.

 

[Punjabiking1500]

Gotta agree with duanes here, i’ve treated dozens of fish with ich and have never lost any when just using salt at 1 tablespoon per 2 gallons. In my opinion the issues with ich happen when too many water parameters are changed at once and on top of dealing with ich, the fish is dealing with osmosis from the salt, adjusting to medication and now fluctuations with temp, that’ll kill it faster than the ich. And now if the dose of salt isn’t high enough to kill the free swimming trophants, the increased temps can rapidly increase the ich life cycle. Most of the time, I find people don’t put in enough salt to do damage, i’ve gone as high as 1 tablespoon per 1 gallon for scaled hardy fish like oscars, pacu, and they handle it perfectly fine, i’ve even put scaleless fish like rtc through 1 tablespoon per 2 gallons and he’s now 2 feet long. You can look up whatever fish you’re treating and put brackish behind it and if it inhabits any brackish waters naturally or have adapted invasively to brackish waters in florida and ppl fish for them there (peacock bass, oscars, etc), then you can assure they’ll tolerate 1-2 tablespoon per gallon which is more than enough to treat ich, and whatever secondary bacteria infections come along with it. If you wanna ne super accurate you can weigh it out and measure ppt like duanes said, but 1 tbsp per 2 gallons works perfectly fine as well. Hope your oscar is doing better, they’re usually super hardy and can handle close to brackish conditions.

Thanks for info dude they are completely fine now
Chaged my water yesterday after 6 days of treatment and added the meds again
And now I'm not treating anymore
No spots all fine

 

[Jjiang00]

Thanks for info dude they are completely fine now
Chaged my water yesterday after 6 days of treatment and added the meds again
And now I'm not treating anymore
No spots all fine

Glad to hear! Oscars are so damn hardy, I regret giving them away they have so much personality. The two I had were a breeding pair so they would be hyper aggressive towards all my fish.

 

[Punjabiking1500]

Glad to hear! Oscars are so damn hardy, I regret giving them away they have so much personality. The two I had were a breeding pair so they would be hyper aggressive towards all my fish.

Yeah dude that's why I have to re-home my full grown water dogs
It was te hardest thing that I've ever done

 

[Jjiang00]

Yeah dude that's why I have to re-home my full grown water dogs
It was te hardest thing that I've ever done

Also bro, that's an awesome looking flowerhorn in your profile pic, is that a super red dragon? I just got one, how do you know what type it is? Still kinda confused on that.

 

[Punjabiking1500]

Also bro, that's an awesome looking flowerhorn in your profile pic, is that a super red dragon? I just got one, how do you know what type it is? Still kinda confused on that.

The quality of flowerhorn depends on marking on the head ( more the markings on the head higher the quality is )