Advice : Sick LH

[Di`Can10]

Seem like my aunt's LH kanna white spot . so after going thru here on what to do . this is what i did .

change 50% water + filter material , ad bout 8 tablespoon of aqua salt into the tank and add 4 capful of ocean free white spot med . Also i pump in a air pump for the time being .... i know only aro keepers do that ... but :o

what is the next step after that ? shd i stop feeding for a few days ? do i need to continue dosing the white spot med and salt ? Can i add melafix now , will it like overdose [mela + salt + ocean free me] ??

Pleas advise . Thanks alot.

[augustin]

Seem like my aunt's LH kanna white spot . so after going thru here on what to do . this is what i did .

change 50% water + filter material , ad bout 8 tablespoon of aqua salt into the tank and add 4 capful of ocean free white spot med . Also i pump in a air pump for the time being .... i know only aro keepers do that ... but :o

what is the next step after that ? shd i stop feeding for a few days ? do i need to continue dosing the white spot med and salt ? Can i add melafix now , will it like overdose [mela + salt + ocean free me] ??

Pleas advise . Thanks alot.

do what you just did once a day everyday... depending on the seriousness of the whitespots..

when my parrots got whitespots i changed 100% water, add 12 - 14 scoops of salt on 3 ft tank.. no feeding...you should see the white spots coming out and dangling in the tank water... within a day the parrots were back to normal..

but normal doesnt mean 100% cured... the virus causing the white spots may still be in the fish.... so repeat continuously for 3 days just to make sure everything is fine... if the attack comes back then use some antibiotics..

be very careful of fish medicine.. they can overdose..

[dinosor]

don mix ah.. just oceanfree medicine enough..
anyway how big is your tank??
better to have a heater to 30degree.. ^_^

[Di`Can10]

ic , thanks for the advise ....
maybe i continue with ocean free for a few days first .... no improvement then i switch to melafix .

[augustin]

don mix ah.. just oceanfree medicine enough..
anyway how big is your tank??
better to have a heater to 30degree.. ^_^

oh yes... increase water temp too!! :p

[Di`Can10]

don mix ah.. just oceanfree medicine enough..
anyway how big is your tank??
better to have a heater to 30degree.. ^_^


2.5 ft tank . dun have heater leh ... :confused: think can hit ard 29 degree .

[dinosor]

4cap full of medicine?
u mean the bottle cap or measuring cap?

[Platinum]

I copied and pasted what i posted previously on white spotss/velvet...

Well they are pretty much the same, velvet being a harder to combat parasite!!!

Increment of temp is the crux in speeding up life cycle for the IcH to be free swimming and then combated with salt bath and medication.

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Well below is something i posted previously wrt to velvet disease but actually works the same for IcH(white spot) treatment. I usually use interpet white spot away medication. Abit lengthy but hang in there.

Copied and paste from one of my pervious postings:

I deduce boy's fish to be infected with Velvet aka Gold Dust, nevertheless it sounds kinda liek IcH or whitespots to me, becoz he never provide picture!!!

Nevertheless, treatments for these 2 specific problems are similar except for the fact that Velvet is harder to treat due to the parasite being hardier and more tolerant adn resistant to heightened temperature and concentrated saltbaths.

Well i've kinda mentioned the solutions which are pretty much common and can be used to "cure" fishes suffering from Velvet or White Spots.....

Here are some additional points to add......

1. Temperature will not be advisable to be increased till 30 degrees, 28 degrees will do, reasons being that higher temperature induces higher matabolism rate, well i'm not so sure but i don't want my fish to be perpetually looking frantic and suddenly suffer from heavy breathing due to the additional 2 degrees.......28 degrees will be fine enough.

2. When increasing temperature from your heater, it's advisable to gradually adjust with a degree increment per 30mins or so and not one shot PUP to 28 Degrees.......some fishes tend to be sensitive to sudden changes but well some of u will say LH is hardy lar but i believe in play safe then sorry.

3. These velvet parasites have a free swimming stage simlar to white spots, their free swimming stage is even longer than IcH so expect some decent darkening of the tank...as in no tank lights.....reasons being that these parasites sustain themselves via photosysnthesis.......by darkening, they get slimmer chances of survival before finding a host!!!!!

4. Throughout "treatment", it'd be advisable to have a pretty strong salt bath to increase osmotic pressure so that when the parasites are free swimming, they'd almost be stressed up by the pressure and burst into vapour!!

5. I treated my fish with Interpet Velvet Away.....dosage i just did myself is 10ml for my 4x1.5x1.5ft tank, after every 2-3 days, i'd do a 2 pail water change.....and add back same amount.....please note that it'd be advisable to add medication into a pail of tank water and mix abit before pouring in.......LHs tend to be very nosey when you appear to pour things into the tank, they may gulp medication direct and make a FOOL of themselves for theur gluttonic behaviour....so as usual play safe then sorry.

Water changes will really pump up the fish's lethargy from my observation, all throught till it cures, it'd be best to maintain salt bath and temperature of 28 degress and also dark tank conditons for 1-2 weeks after it has fully recovered.

Well above are personal experiences, it may differ from others, feel free to share if you have your own method.

[Platinum]

2.5 ft tank . dun have heater leh ... :confused: think can hit ard 29 degree .

29 degrees is base upon noon time??Well at nite it may fluctuate, you never know...so just add in a thermostat heater like Rena's etc etc, if the temp is there, it won't even heat up...once it goes down it will maintain at 28degrees for you. :)

Heater is mandatory for treatment of IcH imo.....else the IcH will never fully disattach to look for new hosts due to difference in temp and your situation may not imrpove totally.

[Di`Can10]

icic ... will try to find a heater ...

anyway .... look at it in the morn .... condition improve abit ..... i think :confused:

dinosor : 4 capfull of the ocean free bottle cap lo .