Help Red spots on the body

[rashpal]

I realize this morning that all my GF having red spots on the body tail and fins. Also discoved white spots. What should I do to recover my GF.

[squareballs]

white spots easy to cure..just raise the temp of the water..maybe change the water and add salt..regarding red spot..maybe can buy medication for them..never got redspot on my fish b4 so i cant help..

[yeemiau]

you might have some problem with the water quality... when was the last time you change water and what type of gold fish you have there? what is the % of water change you did last time or usually?

yes, salt and heater will cure the white spot very fast.

[rashpal]

salt...do you mean the fine salt that we use for cooking, didn't know salt can be use to cure white spot. All this while been using medicine which I bought from FS. I'm also suspecting this is due to water qualilty. Thanks appreciate for all the help. How much salt is required for 2 1/2 ft tank.

[yeemiau]

Originally Posted by rashpal

salt...do you mean the fine salt that we use for cooking, didn't know salt can be use to cure white spot. All this while been using medicine which I bought from FS. I'm also suspecting this is due to water qualilty. Thanks appreciate for all the help. How much salt is required for 2 1/2 ft tank.

I'm assuming you water level is around 10-11" of water
I recon 0.5% salt for 48 hours without any feeding will cure the problem
So, you tank approximately can hold about 60 liters of water. so you can go to kedai runcit buy a kilo or two rock salt and weight it with a bakery scale...
for this case, you'll need to change all the water, if you have a filter, clean it inside out with the tank water, take the fish out and put it in a bucket with airstone agitating the water...put in new water, put around 260 - 300grams of rock salt in the tank... use hypo or whatever to get rid of the chlorine.. till the tank is filled with new water, set up you filter again and run it for 1-2 minutes, if you r using one. adjust the temp of the tank and bucket to match avioding temperature shock. when the temp is matching, dump the fish in the tank... don't feed them for 2 days... you'll see the improvement very soon.

Remember this if you r a filter user... keep certain part of the media or filter chamber parts wet and soak in aerated old water to keep the nitro bacteria alive, so you don't have to restart the cycling of tank from zero...

Note:-

1) avoid feeding the fish during treatment stage.
2) when treatment done, say 48-36 hours, change all water and put less salt (100-200gram) for round 2... feed less
3) clean your filter
4) frequent water (weekly) change after treatment avoid repeat of same incident
5) heavy aeration during treatment
6) avoid temperature shock during water change
7) get an ammonia tester and test your water 2-4 days after water change


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[chochiss]

it's micro-scopic parasite. can't see, imune to salting & soon....the fish will have clamped fins & stop eating losing appetite immediately.

if the above are not experienced, then it's somethin else. if it is the above....anti-parasite bath is needed with warmer water temp or just watch the fish suffer.....shiverring & die........

just my 50 cents............