Goldfish Disease: White Spot Treatment

Goldfish Disease: Treating white spot disease

Treatment of white spot disease in goldfish can be done by adding "Malachite Green" as medications in the aquarium. Malachite green can we found and buy at most pet stores. Malachite green tend to be safe for fish or other aquatic plants and is an effective treatment for white spot disease in goldfish. Here are step-by-step treatment with malachite green:

Goldfish Disease: White Spot Disease

Goldfish Disease: White Spot Disease on Goldfish

What is white spot disease

White spot disease is a type of goldfish disease that attacks goldfish. White spot is caused by a parasite "Ichthyophthirius multifiliis" or ich in short terms. Because the success key to eliminate the white spot is kill this parasite, then let's first understand the life cycle of this ich parasite.

Ich parasite causes white spot

Goldfish Disease: Treatment Velvet disease

Goldfish Disease: Treatment and prevention againt Velvet disease on goldfish

This section discuss how to treat and early prevention of velvet disease. Because this disease is very contagious, it better to take steps to treat it as soon as possible before goldfish infected more advanced. Good choice treatment is take Copper sulphate as treatment for 10 days. You also can dim the aquarium lights to aids in eliminating the infestation, because Oodinium is very dependant on light. Also. increasing the water temperature to 82°F will speed the eradicate process of infestation. If goldfish labored in breathing, you can also adding aquarium salt to the water. One of thing to keep in mind is always remove activated carbon from the filter for any of treatment you doing. Otherwise it will remove the drugs from the water.