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The instructions don't say what to do after the 3rd day? Do I do a water change? Do I add more white spot treatment? If so, at 1ml/20l or 1ml/40ml?

but the instructions don't say what to do after the 3rd day? Do I do a water change? Do I add more white spot cure? If so, at 1ml/20l or 1ml/40ml?

Did a water change and added Brooklands white spot cure according to the directions on the bottle (1ml/20l) and dosed again on day (1ml/40l). The instructions on the bottle don't say what to do beyond the 3rd day. Most of the white spots have fallen off the loaches. My question is this; Should I keep dosing, if so, how long and how much?

The heaters are all brand new, 3 different brands though. And now I think about it that part of the house is a bit chilly with not having internal walls, ceiling or proper windows at the moment Will try your insulating like rollergirl said. Have 2 thermometers, one is a basic stick on manual type with the mercury and the other is a fancy $50 digital type that has an alarm for when the temp gets to low. The digital reads about 1.3 degrees higher than the manual type and from what I've read I should trust the manual one, so I've been going by what it says. Got some whitespot treatment from the vet today, might try that after a big water change tomorrow.

Good to know that it not unusual for water to clear that quickly, Thx. Have been using warm water (26-28 degrees) for water changes and now have 750w of heater in my 300l tank, should be able to boost the temp by simply turning the temp up on them right? Have them all turned up to 34 plus and has taken 3 days to get them back up to 26 degress, very frustrating. The other heater only broke because I forgot to unplug it and then in panic dropped it in the water, bang, rather scary, won't make that mistake again :oops: Regarding the white spot treatment, I read somewhere that it would be unwise to try more than one treatment at once, so would you sugges I wait another day do a 25% water change then try the white spot treatment? Or should I just go ahead now? Have been using tonic salt, but have just read in a article on white spot, that I shouldn't have, especially on clown loaches. So much contradictory info out there, very confused now... :-? Sorry for so many questions but don't have a LFS to go to and ask, Thank you for your help.

This is my first time posting so please be gentle And sorry if I ramble on to long. I first noticed white spot on my clown loaches 4 days ago. I had wunder tonic (Brooklands brand) on hand so dosed according to the instructions. Yesterday (day 3) I did the suggested 25% water change and added the next dose. I have also been adding tonic salt & turned the temp up, but temp is only increasing slowly even with 3 heaters turned way up. My questions are; 1. The water turned quite green after each dose but was clear again after approx 8 hours, is this normal? Running a unimax 500 filter, pretty sure there's no carbon in there. 2. One of the two loaches appears to be getting worse ie. more spots, kinda aggitated and then tired, is there anything else I can do to lessen his suffering? Could I do a dip/bath for him? 3. How long before I see an improvement? 4. The tonic says 1ml/20l for the 1st day, 1ml/30l on the 3rd day. I have been following this to the letter. Is this enough? 5. Also says on day 7 do another 25% water change, should I wait that long or should I do another water change on say day 5 and redose at 1ml/30l? By the way, the tank is 375l with around 300l in it. I have 2 clown loaches, 10 neon tetras, 5 phantom tetras, 5 head & tail light tetras, 1 glowlight tetra, 4 ghost glass fish, 1 male betta, 1 female betta, 1 blue pearl gourami, 2 golden honey dwarf gourami, 2 albino cory, 2 golden algae eaters (not sure if this is correct name), 1 pair swordtails, 3 swordtail fry and a few plants. And yes it is a new tank, still cycling. I suspect the cause of the outbreak was a broken heater during a water change 5 days ago which plummeted the temp to around 23 which probably stressed the poor fishies. Also don't know if it is relavent but 4 of my 5 glowlights disappeared one night last week, found 2 dead, 1 missing an eye, 2 unaccounted for. After discovering this I did 50-60% water changes every 2nd day to try and counter the effects of possible rotting fish bodies. Since then have dialed water changes back to 25% every 2nd day until I started treating the clown loaches now just following instructions on tonic bottle. Thank you for your help.