White spot in large tank - Help

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Hi all. I have a 700lt tank and have a few fish with a couple of white stops on their fins. What is the best treatment in this case. Please help? Thanks
 
if spot is in main tank you at the mercy of the spot. Some fish will probably survive the outbreak if they healthy and eating. But its not always the case. There are a million scenarios that can play out. Actually to many to type here. And every reefer has his own ideas on how to combat spot. There are some products on the market that claims it is reef save but i have never had luck with it. If you want to you can look at a product called spots and velvet. But looking at your water volume its going to cost you a arm and leg to dose.

Idealy you want to catch the fish and treat seperately. But even this can stress the fish and kill them Either bucket method, cupramine. Or whatever route you choose.
Spot is never a good thing especially if its in a main tank and you cant catch the fish.
Goodluck with the ick. Hope your fish pull through.
 
HI

I just had a total tank wipeout last week from white spot and velvet....... first ever wipeout in 15 years of reefing.... some fish i have had for more than 8 yrs.

Best advice

get a fish trap... and quarentine and copper your fish that are affected. Some nasty bugs going around at the moment.....

my 2 cents
 
In my view stress is the biggest trigger for fish getting killed by whitespot. I got a bad breakout when i had a powder blue and orange shoulder fighting. Powder blue was almost dead. Caught him out and put in another tank (all tanks on same sump, so same water). He recovered and lost no fish. Not a water quality issue. Another time moved tank, so stress and water quality not the same. Lost three fish. If they eating and only a few spots, not worsening i would consider just leaving them. If your water quality is not good / or high stress environment address that and /or treat them. I dont think there really is a best answer or way, treatment causes stress but leaving it can also lead to then dying.

Since removing the powder blue from the main display i have no fish that fight, low stocking so low stress and have not had another breakout. Now and then some fish have a spot or two that goes away again.

All the best with whatever route you take decide to take.
 
Hi, What copper product can I use to treat the fish in Quarantine?
 
To be honest, you might lose more fish in qt than ws will kill if you aren’t completely on top of water quality in there. My advice, get some UV sterilizers and 10 micron filter socks to add to display. And can dose peroxide too (think I went up to 20ml per 1300 tank of 50%). To completely rid the tank of white spot, it will have to go without fish for 90 days, plus then anything wet needs to be qt-ed for 3 months to ensure it doesn’t reintroduce it. So managing it might be better, I think my tank has had latent ws since at least 2013, and I only really see it with new fish or if water quality goes down.
 
Is the peroxide Reef safe?
Also, I only see 100 micron filter socks. Will that door where can i get 10 microns?
 
Kobusdb said:
Is the peroxide Reef safe?
Also, I only see 100 micron filter socks. Will that door where can i get 10 microns?
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My zoas closed up every time I dosed for about 30min, but no permanent damage. I think I got mine from Filcon, need smaller than 15 micron to filter out the ws parasites.
 
The main reason for the peroxide is that it increases the ORP of the water, so the water can dissolve more oxygen, which helps fish who are fighting parasites that might be in their gills.
 
If you want to qt....look at chloroquine Phosphate. Super easy to use and not as complicated as copper. Just be carefull as there are certain fish that cant go into chloroquine phosphate. Also cant dose in display. Need a seperate tank
 
Yes sorry resqmed. I used it for 21 days. 1 dose in the morning before 9 and then a dose again in the evening after 10. Very important to use it as directions to be effective. I used stuff from NBL labs, heal all, i dont know thousands of rands on stuff and nothing worked. I got it from Nic @ Reefcritters
 
If you want to use resqmed.. You might aswell buy rhino horn... Or snake oil. But that's just my opinion
 
So my 3 cents

Since the last wipeout in 2019 and after months of trying all sorts of things

I think 2 things

1) Plumb an oversized UV straight to display tank (not sump)
2) QT all new fish and hook up an oversized UV to QT tank also. Chemicals etc stress fish out +++. I have 55W UV on a 70 Liter Qt tank.
 
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