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Posted on: 6/9/2012 11:48 |
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the butterfly that was hiding came out today and is covered in white spot
 i have king british ws3 will i have to treat the whole tank now? will the others get it? |
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Posted on: 6/9/2012 11:56 |
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Yes you need to treat the whole tank. Treating immediately may prevent the others catching it. Do a 25% water change, remove carbon and treat as per directions on the bottle.
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Posted on: 6/9/2012 13:33 |
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done water change with equilibrium,prime and ws3.
said 1ml for every 90 litres so put 3 and half ml in total allowing for gravel and wood. so dosed for 315 litres. |
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Posted on: 6/9/2012 13:43 |
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Sounds about right.
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Posted on: 6/9/2012 13:47 |
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good
 is it a serious disease? do i do water changes in 48 hours when need to re dose or just add the ws3 directly to tank? |
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Posted on: 6/9/2012 14:02 |
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also should i remove the zeolite pads from waterfall filter?
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Posted on: 6/9/2012 14:04 |
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Whitespot can be serious if it's not treated but hopefully you've caught it in time. More info here: http://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/articles_88/white-spot.htm
I've not used the King British stuff but like every medication you just need to follow the instructions for dosing on the bottle. If it says to do a water change then yes, but otherwise leave it as the meds are usually dosed to a certain level over the course of using them so sometimes it relies on a certain concentration in the water, if that makes sense. HTH EDIT - I'd remove the zeolite pads personally, does it state to on the instructions for the meds? Zeolite removes stuff from the water so it can interfere with medications. |
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Posted on: 7/9/2012 16:15 |
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treated the tank for white spot and she's not hiding anymore and is swimming and eating now.
still spots on her but not as many. no other fish showing signs of white spot. tested water every day and no spikes from adding fish as yet |
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Posted on: 7/9/2012 17:00 |
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Most Ich treatments you use over a period of days so make sure you follow the instructions Kev. The parasite can only be killed in its free swimming stage when it is invisible to the naked eye.
Not unusual to some see a spot or two reappear after treatment so keep a beady eye on the fish. Whenever I have previously experienced Ich it's always taken two back to back treatmnets to finally rid the tank. Some strains are quite resilient now unfortunately. |
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Posted on: 7/9/2012 19:49 |
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thx.yes i will,says redose every 48 hours until no spots then 48 hours after. i'll prob keep dosing for week after to make sure.
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