I need some advice please

[christee]

People, i need some advice.

My fishes is suffering from white spots.

So i purchase medication for them.

The instruction says that not recommended for reef aquariums.

What they mean by reef aquariums? LR and LS?

By the way, the brand name is called Mardel.

[albinosage]

I guess it probably means corals and invertebrates, which are sensitive to copper based medication.

[christee]

so its mean with LR and LS is okay with the medication? anyway invertebrates mean boneless fish right? does starfish under boneless?

[dachkie]

in short its everything that is not fish wen its referring to non reefsafe, be careful of even your Life Rocks

[christee]

So if i transfer the fish to another tank for the medication. after they recover i transfer them back. they will suffer from white spot again isnt it?

[christee]

anyone have any idea how to cure white spot?

[dachkie]

whitespot is a very irritating issue , especially when there are all sort of myth going on such as leave ur tank fishless for 4-6 weeks and you will no have ich , others say ich is always in your tank, i choose to believe the 2nd theory , because how else an ich free tank for almost 1 yr , and my powder blue tang which was quarantine for 3 months ich free ,get and infect my other fishes a few days after putting into the main tank.

Take your infected fish out , use copper on it ( search online for the proper method ) , dont bother with hypo salinity ( it works but it will kill the owner more then the fish).

then as for your main tank , feed many times a day to make sure your fishes are eating so that they can be strong enough to fight the parasite , for those that are weak then put them into the copper quarantine and hope for the best , if you can find this anti parasite freshwater fish food by tetra that contains menidazole , please get it and also let me know where to buy it as that is supos to help

[mopiko]

i tried hypo my whole tank for 10 weeks at 1.09. not sure if it works but so far so good. added new fish from fellow reefers here so far no issues.

for hypo, it must be FOWLR otherwise everything with no spine will be wipe out.

[garyjg]

Chris,

Have you ever heard of Tri-Sulfa Tablets, it's reef safe and will get rid of your white spots... only problem is you can't get it in Singapore, if you're not wanting to use a copper based chemical (I wouldn't) then I may have enough for your tank. how many gallons do your have?

[scandics11]

Chris,

Have you ever heard of Tri-Sulfa Tablets, it's reef safe and will get rid of your white spots... only problem is you can't get it in Singapore, if you're not wanting to use a copper based chemical (I wouldn't) then I may have enough for your tank. how many gallons do your have?

Hey Chris,

I have tried the Tri-Sulfa tablets and they worked for me. I got them from garjg.... I thought you should know.

Thanks again garjg.