Whitespot For The Hypersensitive Fish

[Brookey25]

Hi,

I've posted a couple of threads explaining the situation with my orange fantail "Patch".

Patch is a very sickly little fish that I adopted from a diseased tank at my workplace. So I can't be sure of what he's had in the past, but I know the week before I took him home, he had Herpes.. now he has Whitespot... I suspect his poor little immune system has gone through everything.

Anyway, he got stressed after a water change last week when I was attempting to fix a faulty filter and my hands were in the tank too long. Next day - he was covered in white spot. I tried Meth Blue, but he was gulping and gasping away 24 hours later (I have a pump, airstone and filter in 14 litres of water so he wasn't stuck for oxygen).

I thought that any minute he was going to die.. he was breathing all irregularly.. so I panicked and took 50% of the water out that night.. after standing the water for an hour. It was either that I thought, or watch him die.

He seemed to weak.. unable to even hold himself up in the water.. and had gone downhill significantly after the Meth Blue.. so I thought I'd leave him alone for a few days to wait for him to get some strength up.. calm down.. and I could resume whatever treatment. Now, his whitespot has disappeared! I don't think there's anything at all left on him! He had the Meth Blue a week ago, since then I've done 30% water a couple of times this week, because he hasn't eaten for a long time.. I needed to get all that leftover food out.

His tank is now pristine.. and I have started him on Melafix. I know this doesn't treat White Spot.. but he does need something. Since he became ill like this, part of his tail went bright blood red and also has red streaks in it. I suspect he is sick with something else too.. as he's missing the majority of his scales which haven't grown back yet. I've only had him for 2 weeks.. so I can only speculate what would've caused this.

I thought it would be safe to try him on the Melafix first and see if there's any improvement with that. I'm too worried about the Tonic killing him. Because the White Spots have disappeared, does that mean I don't need to worry about that now anyway?