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Is this white spot?


Donny Brasco

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My acei tanzania had lost alot of color and devolved what looks like a white dot on his forehead over the last 3 days since moving all my fish to a larger 4ft tank.

His still eating fine on nls and his pooping fine still browny red color he seems very active but the dots are concerning.

Sorry the pictures are really bad he won't stop moving for me.

Should I just treat with Epsom salt and isolate him in my hospital tank?

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From this one it almost looks like more dots coming up on his side

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It's hard with the pics but those marks look too big to be whitespot to me.
Generally it comes up as distinct small spots. Like grains of salt on the fish.
That looks more to me like a bump on the head.

Either way, a dose of salt and a water change will do the world of good.

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50% water change done 3 days ago so i think ill pull him out and chuck him in my hospital tank and try some salts.
what do people find best way to do it, mix up a sollution and let him swim in it for 5 mins and then return him to hopital tank or drip the sollution onto some pallets, let them dry and then feed them to him, or simply soak some pallets in the sollution and then poor it into the hospital tank.

I have never had to treat a fish before thats why im asking, i have researched and watched plenty of vids and these seem to be the three main ways of treating with salts

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The way I do it - take bag of salt (regular salt - nothing stupidly expensive from an aquarium store - non-iodised table/cooking salt), dump a bunch in the tank.
I'm sure there are more scientific approaches but I find simple is often best.

Measuring is not so important with cichlids that come from water with high mineral content anyway. But I am happy to dump a couple of coffee mugs in with a big water change in my 6x2 when I think a couple of fish are looking beat up or whatever. if I was adding with every change I would probably be more precise.

I reckon chasing fish with nets and putting them in hospital tanks or dropping them in to a salt bath for 5 minutes is stressful enough to cause whitespot if the fish doesn't already have it :-D

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  1. pool salt dump a huge cup in main tank turn up heat a little ...if its white spot easiest way to spot white spot is look at the fins and you can notice very fine white dots and if serious the fins start to cramp up....

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ah its just an aquarium salt aimed at cichlids.

i mix up 1 teaspoon to a cup of water, chuck a small pinch of nls 1mm pallets in and stir for about 1-2 mins, then i just gentily add the contents of the cup (salt water sollution and all) into the normal spot i feed and they gobble it all up.

Its an altnerative to mixing up a sollution and having them swim in it for 5 mins, i heard this is still an effective way of doing it and it does away with the need to pull my tank apart to catch them and stress them out moving them to different containers etc.

I have bought some new multicure thing from my local aqurium and was told to give it a shot, but im yet to try it on my main tank, it says to use it when ever adding new fish or if you have some sick fish.

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I lol'ed.

Donny, ingesting cichlid salts is not going to do much for an abrasion or ich. It's the wrong type of salt and the concentration is likely to be too low anyway. You can use pure rock salt (aka kosher salt) with raised temperature to treat ich, see this article: http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/ich.php. But that doesn't look like ich to me.

Can you take a better picture so we can help you? Or at least describe the dot a bit more, is it a pit, is it salient, what is the texture, size, has it changed?

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