tel Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 mr purple can now stand upright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Man that is a beautiful fish!! Now I see what all the fuss is about! Are those little white dots under its eye the white spot, or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 yes, he is magnificant! Some cameras just don't do them justice. They come out all black and boring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tel Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 2 spots under the eye are w/s, back in the display now and heading down to 1.009 again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tel Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 yes, he is magnificant! Some cameras just don't do them justice. They come out all black and boring! cant seem to get the colour right, camera is just a sony w5 and hard to make it true colour which is real deep purple :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 That tang looks awesome. Personally I would leave the tank and forget about the white spot, can’t even see it on the tang, and if it does have some it is no big deal, I think you will cause more problems by trying to treat it. The white spot will go if the water quality is ok; Lots of parasite co exist with fish anyway and come out when things are not right. A small amount of white spot will not cause any harm and it is only a problem if it has lots of white spot as the fish die from bacteria problems not the white spot. Don’t overfeed the fish as it can cause more harm than not feeding then enough. Treating fish should be the last resort as 9/10 fish die from the treatment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Yes the fish has only just recovered from whatever had been ailing him, and may still be a little susceptable to changes. All the fish will now have more immunity to whitespot than they had before, it could be that if you just wait it out, monitoring carefully, the whitespot will slowly subside and eventually dissapear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tel Posted May 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 arrrrrrrrgh!! what to do when the advice makes perfect sense yet cntradicts what you finally decided i was mainly going to hypo as the blue still had visible w/s... :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossco Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 How about a 'happy middle ground' ? Lower your salinity to around the 1.018 which is what a lot of our fish are held at in QT. Lower salinity (not hypo) is supposed to be easier on them when fighting off something, higher oxygenation, all that stuff. Then, worse case scenario, if WS does come back with a vengeance its not so far to drop your salinity to hypo either? If we are setting up new tanks and buying corals and fish I think its going to be pretty tough to keep our tanks WS 'free' even with lots of hypo and QT. Resistant fish is the ideal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeroen Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Just wondering. Would adding cleaner shrimp be a good solution to treat whitespot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 They can possibly assist with a "mild" whitespot problem, read under "Treatment Option 11: Biological Controls" here: http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003- ... /index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossco Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Yup, only trouble is shrimps are very sensitive to water parameters so if you do any of the other treatments you can't use shrimps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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