marine white spot

[daviemgzr]

sorry guys if i am in wrong topic :?: having a few probs with white spot,i have been running reef for 2 years now without any probs,just recently i have changed my setup from 100gallon to 186gallon with 30g sump,noticed two weeks ago my one of my tangs had white spot so i searched google for a cure,i read a forum which said to use esha oidinex :?: i did use this product for 3 days,turned off my uv and skimmer,after the 3rd day switched back on coz there was nothing in instructions on when to turn uv or skimmer back on :?: all seemed fine untill day 6 after using esha bloody spots back again :? having spoke to lfs they advised me to try lower salinety and add garlic glove into food :?: i have read this can work,can anyone help as all my hard work and money is not looking to clever
thanx for reading dave

 

[jhemdal1]

Hi Dave,

esha oidinex is mainly a European product, so I have never used it. I tried to find out what the active ingredient is, but the company won't say. My firm rule is that if a company will not divulge the ingredients of a medication, then I won't use it - simple as that. Is the liquid yelloish? If so, the product is probably acriflavine.

That said, adding garlic to food in order to cure cryptocaryon has only anecdotal proof of it working. Lowering the specific gravity to 1.012 (some people go as low as 1.009) will work unless the Cryptocaryon is too far advanced. But of course, this can't be down with invertebrates present in the tank. I generally treat with ionic copper (in a treatment tank) for 14 days.


Jay Hemdal

 

[Anonymous]

Yes, I must put bells on using any treatments, including hyposalinity, in a hospital/treatment tank. Please, no lowering salinity in the display. But, chances are there are more than one fish in there, and it would have to be fallowed for at least six weeks with absolutely no fish for it to be truly effective, right Jay?

 

[daviemgzr]

Yes, I must put bells on using any treatments, including hyposalinity, in a hospital/treatment tank. Please, no lowering salinity in the display. But, chances are there are more than one fish in there, and it would have to be fallowed for at least six weeks with absolutely no fish for it to be truly effective, right Jay?

cheers guys the answers were not what i wanted to here but i knew deep down thats what you were going to tell me lost my 6" lipstick tang on sat,best get myself another tank to put fish in 8O
cheers again

 

[Anonymous]

Major bummer. At this point, yeah, if it's bad enough that you're losing fish you need to address hospital set-up AND overall water quality in there. Cleaner shrimp might be appropriate helpers here, too. Very sorry you lost the fish.

 

[daviemgzr]

Major bummer. At this point, yeah, if it's bad enough that you're losing fish you need to address hospital set-up AND overall water quality in there. Cleaner shrimp might be appropriate helpers here, too. Very sorry you lost the fish.

not sure what you guys think but spoke to lfs today as most of my fish seem to have lost the whitespot they said at this point maybe let things lie and ride the storm :?: my cleaner wrasse seems to be working over time on the remaining spots,i thourght wrasse could not clean away whitespot :?:

 

[seahorsedreams]

Cleaners can help keep small numbers down.That's their job in the wild.They can't fix a full blown problem. A lot of the parasites are also buried too deep within the skin to be reached.

 

[WRASSER]

could it be the tempature of the tank, sometimes this causes stress on the fish.