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Posted on | May 29, 2009 | Comments Off

Tail Fin
Tail Fin
Small white spot on the beautiful tail fin of a shubunkin - what is it?


A very small white spot has appeared overnight on the tail fin of my favourite prettiest shubunkin in a cold water indoor aquarium. I have heard of White Spot and wonder if I should treat the aquarium with its total of 6 goldfish (comets/shubunkins) and 2 green tenches - all very healthy by the way. I recently replaced half the water and added the usual tonic salts but used a different tap safe, an antibiotic one - hmmm, maybe a bad idea to change things in an otherwise well established and stable tank!!! So, calling all you expert fish keepers out there to let me have your suggestions or advice.

I wouldn't medicate unless you can identify this positively, or the number of spots increases. It may not be a disease or parasite at all, and using the wrong medication can do more harm than good. Antibiotics will upset your tank bacteria and you'll have higher than normal ammonia and nitrite while your tank cycles again.

If this is whitespot (ich), the spots will be about the size of salt grains (see photos and links below). You can treat this just using heat and salt. Slowly increase the temperature, a few degrees each hour till you get a temperature around 86-90o. That's a good deal of change, but if you don't want to go that high, any increase will help. This causes the life cycle of the parasite to speed up. Add salt till you have a concentration of 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon per gallon of water (you'll have to figure this taking into consideration the amount you've already added). You'll need to treat all the fish, as the parasite is in the water.

You'll need to treat for around 10-14 days, or at least 3 days after you no longer see the spots on the fish. When the parasite is on the fish, it's enclosed in a cyst and isn't affected by the treatment - only when it's in the water. If you stop treatment too early, you have the risk of your fish being infected again.

See this link for other treatment options and info on ich/whitespot: http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/docs/health/ich.shtml

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my angelfish got some of his tail fin nipped off by the other fish. ?


my question is, will his fins grow back and how long does it take? i think they are leaving him alone now because i don't see anymore nips around his tail.

It will grow back, a separate tank will help. 50 percent water changes daily for the first week, every other day the second week. Melafix helps, salt will not help, and may be detrimental. Angels are not brackish fish, and originate from an area with very soft water, meaning very low total dissolved solids. Adding salt will increase total dissolved solids.

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