Please help!!! White powder!!!

Hi aromedics,

I noticed a white powder on my fish recently. Its covering their ENTIRE body, and I don't really think its white spots.... These white dots are REALLY small and powder like.... Anyone know what to do?

[arocolin]

Change the water and increase the temp. it may help. if dose medicine remember half the dosage that recommended.

Best to treat as whitespot at this moment. Think recent temperature fluctuation probably stress our aro. I'm treating my ESR with Protozin, salt at 0.3% & aslo increase temperature to 30C. Think aro got whitespot too.

Drop those yellow powder into the tank bro... works wonders

Thanks bros,

Will try your suggestions out.

[Hobbit6003]

Hi LHboi,

Though it is hard to say what it excatly is without a pic, but the most probably diagnosis would be white spot, or ick as it is known.

Contrary to what Mewmender had said, I'm afraid the yellow powder isn't the medication of choice in your case. The yellow powder is anti-bacterial, but in your case, ick is a prozozoa parasite, and therefore a completely different class of organism altogether.

There are many of those anti-whitepost medication out there, and I must say that they're all quite effective.

Most of them appear blue in colour, and the active ingredients in there are formalin, methylene blue and machite green. They're also known as FMC for short.

A word of caution when you use these drugs:

1. Make sure you aerate the tank well, as formalin is oxygen sapping.

2. Formalin is also toxic, so please do not overdose.

3. Do not underdose either, as it may not be effective.

4. Please treat till all the whitespots are gone, which would probably take up to 2 weeks.in your case, the infection sounds quite severe.

5. you may increase the water temp to about 30-31 degrees celcius, as this would speed up the parasites' life cycle and hasten their susceptibility to the medication, in their free swimming stage. However, do make sure that aeration is good, and observe the aro for any signs of heavy breathing, as this may indicate that oxygen conc. is too low for the fish.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kenny

Originally posted by Hobbit6003
Hi LHboi,

Though it is hard to say what it excatly is without a pic, but the most probably diagnosis would be white spot, or ick as it is known.

Contrary to what Mewmender had said, I'm afraid the yellow powder isn't the medication of choice in your case. The yellow powder is anti-bacterial, but in your case, ick is a prozozoa parasite, and therefore a completely different class of organism altogether.

There are many of those anti-whitepost medication out there, and I must say that they're all quite effective.

Most of them appear blue in colour, and the active ingredients in there are formalin, methylene blue and machite green. They're also known as FMC for short.

A word of caution when you use these drugs:

1. Make sure you aerate the tank well, as formalin is oxygen sapping.

2. Formalin is also toxic, so please do not overdose.

3. Do not underdose either, as it may not be effective.

4. Please treat till all the whitespots are gone, which would probably take up to 2 weeks.in your case, the infection sounds quite severe.

5. you may increase the water temp to about 30-31 degrees celcius, as this would speed up the parasites' life cycle and hasten their susceptibility to the medication, in their free swimming stage. However, do make sure that aeration is good, and observe the aro for any signs of heavy breathing, as this may indicate that oxygen conc. is too low for the fish.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Kenny

thanks Kenny, I didnt know yellow powder was not for white spots... guess I learned something new today

ya u are right me too learn something new today... thanks to our guru here...

[slwong]

does the medicine affected bio in the filter?