Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis - White Spot Disease

I set up my social tank for fishes. In the first step I give in gravel and plants. 3 weeks I keep aquarium without fishes. Then I enter there first fishes. The first fishes was 2 Brachydanio rerios, 2 Otocinclus affinis and 2 Poecilia sphenops. All was OK, fishes was healthy. Then I waited one week and entered 4 Aphyosemion australe along with 4 Rivulus magdalenae. Two days was all OK but next day I saw a Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis - White spot on some fishes.

I started cure. It was in Saturday, aquarium shop was closed and I have only FMC medicine. The first step was change temperature to 27 °C. I don’t enter salt to water when I set up tank. Now I enter 150 g on 250 litres of water. And applied 2,5 ml FMC what is 1 ml on 100 litres of water. I applied FMC in this concentration four days. Second day was Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis - White spot on all fishes expect Rivulus and increase. Third day was Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis - White spot less. Thourth day evening I don’t see any White spot. Next day I change 20 litres of water to decrease of concentration of FMC. After three days I enter to my external filter activated carbon to absorb FMC and then I draw back them. Now, after 2 weeks I don’t see any White spot.

This is my experience with cure Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis - White spot.

Patrik Ruzic alias Wampa (visit my blog at www.aqua-wampa.blogspot.com)
patrik.ruzic at gmail.com.

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White Spot Disease (Ichthyophthirius Multifiliis)

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Haley on: August 13, 2010, 12:19 am wrote

I bought one of my betta splendens (siamese fighting fish) from a local pet shop and within days I noticed small white granule like spots on his face and side (didn't see them until I turned on his light). He wasn't as active as my other bettas and at first I thought that was just his personality. But no he had ich, ick, white spot disease, whatever you want to call it. It looked like sugar or salt crystals, just a few in small patches. When I had set up this bettas tank, which was new, I had used a basic water conditioner, but failed to add aquarium salt, which prevents ich. Granted I have no clue if ich would have developed anyway as the betta obviously already had it when I bought him. Anyway I had ich treatment on hand (I keep various meds just in case) I changed his water and treated him per the instructions on the bottle and I also put a lamp on him to bring his water temperature up a little. After the spots disappeared I disinfected his tank, changed his water again (ich is a parasite that detaches so if it wasn't on my fish then it was somewhere in the tank), washed his plastic plants, and remembered to add the salt. He survived and he was my 1st and hopefully my last betta to get ich.

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