So annoyed neons carry white spot

[Zinnib123]

Hey guy sadly this week will probs be the end of my fishies lives since I hadn't noticed that my neons had brought with them white spot and I am broke this week and I don't get paid till Friday hopefully I won't loose too many fish ! ???

 

[Brookster123]

Does it look like salt specs or fuzzy patches?

 

[Zinnib123]

Yes ! I'm in trouble now

 

[Brookster123]

Which one? Salt specs OR larger white fuzz patches?

 

[Zinnib123]

Salt ones

 

[Zinnib123]

Salt specs

 

[missnathasha]

Sadly sounds like your fish have ich, i just had to treat mine for that to

 

[Brookster123]

Well than you're in luck! Crank your heater up to 86 and do a gravel vac 50% wc every other day for 8-10 days, should kill the ich.

 

[Zinnib123]

Will they not die then?

 

[Brookster123]

No gaurantees, but it is a proven method in treating ich, make sure you have good thermometer!

 

[Zinnib123]

Ok thankyou

 

[gilpi]

You're not in any trouble if it is ich which sounds like it is. They won't die from it.
All you need to do is raise the water temp to 84-86 and do daily water changes as it has been mentioned and it will be just fine. I also recommend at this point to not use medicines.

 

[gilpi]

No gaurantees, but it is a proven method in treating ich, make sure you have good thermometer!

I have to agree with this as well, get a good thermometer, you don't want to over heat the water.

 

[Zinnib123]

Ok thankyou all

 

[nameless01]

DON'T USE MEDICINE!
I recently went through an ich epidemic myself, never thought it would happen to me, and I didn't want to use medicine, I HATE adding stuff to my tank water other than conditioner, all I did was crank the temp up to 86 degrees and 50% water changes daily, it's been 3 weeks or so and all my fish made it except for my German blue ram :/ my gobies still have one or two little spots on them(I hear its harder for scaleless fish to be cured) which Is why I'm still running the temp at 86.